Use
MIDI to go beyond simple slaving
Build up a MIDI system to suit your own needs
Use MIDI in live situations
Troubleshoot when things don't work Use MIDI pedals,
gadgets and effects Synchronise your MIDI system to
multitrack tape
Program your own MIDI utilities
Use system exclusive messages
Most MIDI users do no more than scratch the surface of
MOIS potentialities. But dare to dig a bit deeper and
you'll find a whole new world of creative
possibilities.
With the Advanced MIDI Users Guide, you'll learn how to
optimise your MIDI system get the best results from your
particular SMPTE, and you'll find out how to use gadgets
like switchers and mergers to enhance your system - whether
you use MIDI live or in the studio. If you want to
incorporate a multitrack tape recorder into your MIDI
systems, there's a section on synchronisers, SMPTE and MIDI
time code, and retro freaks will learn how to hook up that
dusty old analogue synth to their MIDI systems,
You'll find out how to improvise a simple MIDI tester
for troubleshooting, and how to use SysEx messages to
access some of the more esoteric features of your system.
And the really intrepid will be able to get to grips with
MIDI programming!
Contents
- Getting the message
- Midi routing
- Midi Troubleshooting
- Midi gadgets
- General Midi
- Synchronisation
- Midi programming
- Systems exclusive
- Midi Hardware specification
- Appendix 1 Multi Checklist
- Glossary
- Index