[thechat] MIDI music

Morgan Kelsey morgan at morgankelsey.com
Wed Jan 14 14:17:39 CST 2004


kevin,

> Thanks for the replies and the links guys. I should have been a bit more
> specific about the "how-to"s, I really need an idea of what hardware people
> use. My old ST had built in MIDI ports, which is why it became *the* machine
> to compose on, so I am supposing a PCI card with ports on. But what about
> audio outputs? Would you have a sound card with ,say , 8 mono outputs to go
> to a mixer, or do you do everything on the PC and then mix it down to a
> stereo master?

whoa, you mean to, like, uh,  [gasp] TAPE?

the youngsters are probably snickering, but being magnetic man of old myself, i
understand your confusion.


nagrom thinks back to the days of his fostex x-15, the many rubberbands that
became its belts, and the music that none shall hear (that is -- unless you
cross me -- then i'd tie you to a baroom bull rider and make you listen to it
for hours)....


but these days, it's all done on the hard drive. all of the programs mentioned
will output a finished WAV file, which can then be burned directly to CD.
it's also pretty common to output from one program into another. you may make a
loop in Fruity Loops, and assemble it with other tracks in Reason, or whatever
and whatever.

oh and MIDI in, you can get nifty little USB thingies that do that.


nagrom





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