Re: MIDI throwdown

[msottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

MIDI isn't all that complicated, but it can be (or seem to be).  Most get turned off by MIDI implementation charts in the back of manuals that read like C++.  It's really not that bad at all and you have to know very little in most cases.  What he's saying is that you can get a foot controller or other type of controller and easily assign one of the pedals to change a perimeters like volume or filter frequency (like a wha wha pedal) or both at the same time.  Pretty damn useful and not that hard at all once you get over the initial fear that MIDI is some crazy moon language you have to learn.

Think of it like word processing rather than audio processing.  MIDI is symbolic, like a player piano roll.  Every hole in the paper represents an "event" such as a note.  Some can represent volume or other qualities about the note.

Mark Sottilaro

On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 10:31  AM, Don Makoviney wrote:

> You say:
> "One of the best things about MIDI is that you can use continuous controllers to modify events and effects in real time. "
>
> But all I hear is:
> "Gibberish gibberish gibberish gibberish gibberish gibberish gibberish gibberish gibberish gibberish."
>
> I have no idea what that means to me.
>
> -DM
>
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> Subject: MIDI throwdown
>
>
> One of the best things about MIDI is that you can use continuous controllers to modify events and effects in real time.  If you already have this in your
>
> (non-MIDI) interface, I can understand why you might not jump in feet first :&}  But the best thing about MY pedal (a PMC-10) is that you can send multiply commands to multiple units--as large a string as you want.  Gatta admit that makes dancing more elegant. By the way, what if you drink at a gig and try to do the footswitch boogie? Can't you hurt yourself that way?  Anybody here ever take a tumble in the line of duty? In other news, I KNEW it was aliens! Gary