I Have A Casio Midi Keyboard, Wtf Is Midi?

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Midi Keyboard

Asked by: stoner and proud of it

I have tried to understand midi, but cant. What can I do with it

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Submitted by: Ron Allen

If all you have is the keyboard then you won't be able to do anything with the midi. One way you can think of midi is as a recording channel that will record everything that you can do with the keyboard. If you want to record things to a computer then you'll need what's called a midi interface and midi cables. The interface has one or more of the same plugs that are on the back of your keyboard for midi data and a separate plug for the computer. You'll also need some midi software installed on your computer. You can find some good basic midi programs for free download on sites like zdnet. Com. Once your set up then you can record songs you play from your keyboard onto your computer. You can also download midi files that other people have created off the internet and play them back through your keyboard using the midi software.
Midi will also allow you to record complex songs with a lot of parts by letting you record one part at a time. And as you record additional parts you can record the new parts while the already recorded parts are audible.
You could record your keyboard from the audio out to the audio in of your computer as say a .Wav file but this would be a very large file compared to the midi file and in the midi file using a software program it is possible to edit every single aspect of the song. You can edit the tempo the duration of any note the pitch of any note, the volume the sound that your keyboard uses , anything that your keyboard can do you can change