Tag Archives: MIDI

2025-11-05

MIDI – The Ultimate Guide to Get Started

Do you want to make songs, but can’t play all the instruments needed? Virtual instruments to the rescue! And MIDI is the way you control them – what they play, and how they play it. In this video you will learn everything about how MIDI works in a DAW – especially in Reaper, but valid for any DAW.

We will cover recording, editing, instrument plugins, velocity, quantizing, humanizing, pitch bends, drums and advanced track routing. Go from MIDI curious to MIDI expert in 22 minutes and 19 seconds.

2014-04-26

Making Programmed Drums Sound Real

Even with great-sounding VST drumkits, it can be tricky to make them sound real – here are some great tips!

2013-09-10

iRig Pro Guitar Interface Announced

The iRig PRO iPhone, iPad and Mac audio interface with guitar input, 48V phantom powered XLR input and MIDI in/out has been announced

2013-04-01

Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 Review

The most important piece of hardware in any home studio is the audio interface. The audio interface is the connection between the analog world and digital, and contains the preamp that brings the low signal of an electric guitar up to line level. The excellent Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 has to instrument/microphone inputs with preamps, balanced and unbalanced stereo outputs for monitors and MIDI connectors.

2012-06-01

How to Create Great Drum Patterns for Your Songs

If you do most of your playing at home and don’t have a band (my band is currently just two guitarists jamming on Sundays for instance, on break for the summer at that) but still want to make songs, you are going to be using virtual drums. You should consider yourself lucky, because nowadays there […]

2011-09-21

Bands: Sell Us Multitrack Backing Tracks

In a perfect world you’re in a band, and you are playing your own songs. In a not perfect world sometimes you’re in a band that plays covers. In the real world, sometimes you’re not even in a band… I’ve just started rehearsing with another guitarist. It’s a lot of fun, and we’re looking for a […]

2011-08-08

Reaper Version 4 Released

Reaper, my favorite DAW, has just been released in version 4. The makers Cockos are quite modest and describe the Reaper upgrades as evolutionary, not revolutionary, but the new version is packed with good stuff! I’ve only more or less started it up, but immediately found a small but great new feature. The included EQ […]

2011-08-01

iRig MIDI – Hardware MIDI Interface for iPad and iPhone

IK Multimedia, the creators of the popular instrument interface iRig, has released a hardware MIDI interface for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It’s a standard Core MIDI device and works with a lot of apps already, most notable of course among them Garage Band for iPad (here’s a more comprehensive list, the AC-7 Core control […]

2011-07-19

Mobile Drum Tracking with DrumtrackHD on iPad

On vacation without your DAW computer you can’t really work on your mixes or recorded songs. You can, however, work on songwriting. I have an acoustic guitar where I am, so I can noodle around creating new riffs. I don’t have a drumkit though. And honestly, not being a drummer I’m not sure it would […]