I Dont Use Midi. I Got A Couple Of Questions.

[Loose Cannon]

I never used MIDI before. I only sample. I got a couple questions, ive been lookin into goin into synths when i heard "Times Up" with Jada and Nate Dogg.

First,
Look at this:
http://www.samplekings.com/video/Club Video/a dre beat 2.mov

And This:
http://www.samplekings.com/video/Club Video/a dre beat 3.mov


Alright,
-Since MIDI only sends info not sounds, this means you hafto have a mixer and put the keyboard on a different channel, right?

-How do they get 2 instruments to play at the same time on the same keyboard?

-Once you have more then one instrument playin on the keyboard, how would you mix the different instruments, Since theres only one out on the triton?



THANKS

 

[dahkter]

Hey Helix,
Yeah, Midi is just info.
You press a key on your synthesizer, it sends info to your sequencer (computer or MPC).
Your sequencer takes this info and sends it back out to the same synth, or another synth.

So question 1.
Yup - you need a mixer to run all of that gear.
Question 2
You can get two sounds out of one piece of gear by using something called "multi timbral mode". This turns the synth into 16 individual synths (called channels). So you can use channel 1 for hihats, channel 2 for bass, channel 3 for strings, etc....
Question 3.
Not sure about the triton, but all midi gear receives volume information. So you tell it what to do - play channel one softer, play channel two louder, etc. Each channel has an overall value of 0-127 volume, it's called velocity...

Easy
Dahkter

 

[Loose Cannon]

O SHIT.

Thats exactly what i wanted. Thanks alot. That really helped.

 

[Formant024]

Take caution though that multitimbral ( or multi mode ) takes up a lot of voices, overloading the internal processor creating a loss in quality over the presets your using over the 16 available midi chnls. Roland synths have the tendency to shift notes from sequence if you're asking to much polyphony ( amount of keys pressed with an amount of voices in multimode under the key pressed ). With Roland it's becomes a timing issue and slightly quality which can really be a pain, especialy in little setup where there's only 1 synth for a lot of midi requests. The best solution really to this is to have more gear or limit the amount of channels you use by default. Other issues I've come accros are with the Virus, when in multi the quality and dynamics of the synth takes a heavy drop ( certainly notable by the ear ), so I always use it in Single mode so all processing power is dedicated to 1 midichannel only.

Tip, if in multi due to lack of more midi gear, dont use a JV2080 (for example) for the usual sound INCLUDING drums since drums take up more polyphony, pads for instance will take lesser polyphony due to the nature of the sound.