Beginner Studio 5 hours 260 XP on completion

MIDI & the Piano Roll

Writing music without playing an instrument.

MIDI is the most powerful thing in the Studio and the most under-used. This course fixes that.

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Beatmaker

1. What MIDI is

4 lessons

Not audio. Instructions.

○ MIDI is not sound Reading 11 min ○ Notes, velocity, length and channel Reading 11 min ○ Connecting a keyboard, or using the on-screen one Reading 10 min ○ Recording MIDI in real time versus drawing it Reading 11 min

2. The piano roll

7 lessons

Every editing tool it gives you.

○ Drawing, moving and resizing notes Reading 10 min ○ Velocity editing and why it matters Reading 12 min ○ Quantise, humanise and groove templates Reading 13 min ○ Scale lock and chord helpers Reading 12 min ○ Transposing, inverting and reversing a part Reading 12 min ○ Write a part three ways Studio 25 min ○ Piano roll check Quiz 8 min

3. MIDI as a production tool

6 lessons

Beyond writing notes.

○ Changing the instrument after the fact Reading 10 min ○ Doubling a part on a second instrument Reading 12 min ○ MIDI effects: arpeggiators and chord triggers Reading 13 min ○ Converting MIDI to audio, and when to commit Reading 12 min ○ One part, four instruments Studio 25 min ○ MIDI final Quiz 10 min

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