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TrueLugia121 · #1 02-14-2006, 08:13 AM

Sorry i'm not too sure if this can be done or if you'e guys done this before of something but does anyone know the exact procedure towards digitally enhancing MIDI?

i don't know the exact meaning of Enhancing MIDI but i'm sure there might be ways ofdoing this.

does anone here know the ways or have an address to a guide that may have some information as regards to how this is done?

OverCoat · #2 02-14-2006, 09:06 AM

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Yoozer · #3 02-14-2006, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by TrueLugia121

Sorry i'm not too sure if this can be done or if you'e guys done this before of something but does anyone know the exact procedure towards digitally enhancing MIDI?

You don't enhance MIDI - you no longer use the default General MIDI sounds (samples) on your soundcard (also called "wavetable").

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i don't know the exact meaning of Enhancing MIDI but i'm sure there might be ways ofdoing this.

does anone here know the ways or have an address to a guide that may have some information as regards to how this is done?

Get yourself Reason or FL Studio, throw in some nice VSTs in FL Studio or Refill packs in Reason and you're done.

MIDI is to sound as a sheet with score is to tape. One describes what you should play without caring who is playing it; the other describes exactly what was played but does not explain to you how it was done. MIDI does not "sound like crap"; your soundcard's default wavetable synthesizer does. Therefore, you don't have to enhance MIDI.

OverCoat · #4 02-14-2006, 03:10 PM

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You don't enhance MIDI

GS?

TrueLugia121 · #5 02-14-2006, 08:56 PM

someone else told me that shea was able to record some Yamaha XG MIDI in order to sound diferent that the originl MIDI is this true?

JamesXIIC · #6 02-14-2006, 09:10 PM

Yamaha XG is an improved and increased soundset of the GM (General MIDI) and basically sounds a lot better than a cheap soundcard's wavetable. Modern-ish Yamaha keyboards use XG which is now a Yamaha standard and so happens to be backwards compatible with GM.

Today is probably comparable to Quicktime's DSL Music Device that comes standard with Quicktime to play MIDI files or Microsoft's supplied software wavetable synth in terms of quality.

However, none of the above or the XG set sound anywhere near as decent as proper commerical VSTs be they samplers, romplers or synths. Even some free ones sound much better.

Get FL Studio is my recommendation, which can understand MIDI too. The mid-end version is very cheap and still plenty powerful.

Remember though - MIDI is just a language. It doesn't PRODUCE the sounds in realtime nor is it pre-recorded audio - it gives instructions for external or interal MIDI compatible devices which create the sounds.

As mentioned before it's soft of like a sheet of manuscript for the computer to understand.

Yoozer · #7 02-15-2006, 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Yoozer

You don't enhance MIDI

GS?

GS is an extended GM standard, just like XG is. The MIDI signals at the bottom are still standard.

Enhanced MIDI would be something like OSC, or HD-MIDI.
http://www.midi.org/newsviews/hdmidipr2.shtml
http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/

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Originally Posted by TrueLugia121

someone else told me that shea was able to record some Yamaha XG MIDI in order to sound diferent that the originl MIDI is this true?

Balderdash; it's an old wives' tale and in order to do this he had to sacrifice his firstborn.

No, I'm kidding. You don't record the MIDI, you record what comes out of the sound outputs of the XG device. The XG device can be anything; a synthesizer, a soundcard, a module, as long as they contain the sample set for XG.

http://www.smellymonkey.com/qy70/ < that thing's got the XG soundset. There should also be an XG softsynth, but count on it that any dedicated software sampler with a good sample set will blow it away.