Basics of MIDI and MIDI Controllers
You’ve now set up and acoustically treated your studio. You’ve tracked drums, bass, guitar, and vocals. But you still feel like something’s missing. Maybe an orchestral symphony? A five–piece horn section from New Orleans? How about a vintage analog electric piano? With MIDI, anything is possible.
MIDI stands for Music Instrument Digital Interface, and MIDI controllers come in all shapes and sizes. Some are just pieces of plastic — think Guitar Hero controllers — while others are highly sophisticated machines created to emulate the experience of playing a grand piano, high–level synthesis, and modern drum machine technology all in one.
But regardless of build, they all have one thing in common: none of them actually make any noise.
MIDI controllers are just that — controllers. They’re used to control plugins to create music. The controllers themselves don’t actually produce any sound — just data that your computer turns into sound.
Without a computer, a MIDI controller really is just a piece of plastic. But with the right plugins, your MIDI controller can be Alicia Keys’ piano at Madison Square Garden or Hans Zimmer’s orchestra at the Sydney Opera House or Dave Grohl’s drum kit at Sound City Studios. MIDI can be any sound imaginable, and even some that aren’t.
This is an excerpt from Basics of MIDI and MIDI Controllers, originally published by Reverb. Read the full version here.
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