Understanding MIDI / Understanding Samplers and Sampling

This is an excerpt from a full length DVD available at http://www.ProAudioDVDs.com.

Host David Wills has toured with major artists such as Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, Chicago and Diana Ross and provides you with a professional's perspective but always demonstrated in an informal, easy to understand way.

Here's a complete listing of the subjects that are covered...

(Understanding MIDI)
01:00 Introduction
02:30 What is MIDI?
04:30 Connections
07:10 Components of a MIDI Keyboard
09:10 Conecting up a MIDI Studio
11:50 MIDI Channels
14:50 Sequencing
33:15 Types of MIDI Information
34:00 ...Note On
37:45 ...Pitch Bend
38:35 ...Channel Pressure
39:45 ...Continuous Controllers
41:15 ...Program Change
41:55 ...Channel Message Review
44:15 System Messages
44:45 Synchronization
49:30 MIDI info examples
51:50 Review

(Understanding Samplers and Sampling)
01:40 Introduction
02:20 What is a Sampler?
03:50 Resolution/Sampling Rates
10:05 Recording your first Sample
10:40 Setting up
12:55 Multisampling
14:30 Looping
16:50 Techniques to conserve memory
16:55 Truncating
18:00 Changing the sample rate
18:45 Velocity Cross Fading/Switching
20:35 Patch/Program Editing Examples
22:50 Storage
24:10 Inside Your Sampler
25:15 Editing using Filters/Amps
27:15 Destructive Edits
27:30 Normalization
27:45 Splicing
28:00 Sample Rate Convert
28:20 Time Stretching
28:40 Recording Phrases
29:35 Looping a Phrase
31:15 Syncing Loop Tempos
33:50 Production Applications
39:50 Graduation

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[johngorgis]

Mullet

[SgtThom]

Sample beats are for lazy people

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[moyotte]

Is he using window 3.11?

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[Kriss364]

isn't that keyboard he is playing an Akai S-1000 Keyboard Sampler???

[j2smooth30]

good info!



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