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Originally Posted by X4StringDrive
so whats your first impressions of midi? better? easier? cleaner?
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All of the above.
My MIDI keyboard was very easy to use. Just plug in the USB cable, select the USB device as the input for the track, and load a VSTi (VST Instrument) onto the track to get the sounds. No fussing with mic placement, running cables, adjusting volume levels loud enough so you can minimize hiss/noise and low enough so you don't clip, etc... MIDI is super easy. The hardest part was figuring out all of the controls on the VSTi's, because these type of effects are completely new to me.
The "sound" of MIDI depends 100% on the VSTi you use to generate the sounds. If you have a good sounding VSTi then it'll sound great. For 3 of the MIDI sounds (the electric piano and 2 synths) I used the light version of Yellow Tools Independence that came with the upgrade for my recording program. The cello was done with a free VSTi called
Cellofan.
Many of the high quality VSTi's are real professionally recorded instruments (not computer generated sounds). The Independence program is like this and the full version comes with 70GB worth of sounds.
My version is 4GB and most of that are drum/percussion sounds.
I didn't have to do a lot of tweaking to the VSTi's as they already sounded great. But my recorded tracks were another thing. The hardest part was trying to match the quality of the stuff I recorded here to the VSTi's. Songs done completely with high quality VSTi's would be much easier to mix as well recorded instruments will just about mix themselves.
-tkr