Hello people! Welcome to this video! I will explain here what are, and how to manage
fully the
the index in the video description.
MIDI
different from the sample clips, since they
They just have a sequence of notes in specific octaves and duration in time,
that do need an instrument to be heard.
MIDI files, indicated through
and in the
This means that you can't add any audio clip inside a MIDI track but just
MIDI files.
When a column or track is called MIDI, it means that it doesn't have
any instrument imported yet, so no sound.
The dB meter is not represented in rectangles but in circles that get coloured
in yellow when played.
To import an instrument, just click on the MIDI button just next to the general
MIDI map
The name of the MIDI column and track associated will be changed with the name
of the sample instrumental clip added.
Here you can set how to play the MIDI file completely through the instrument added.
To decide where the single note of the MIDI must start in the waveform, just
change the properties through the
the length of such, important in case the MIDI notes are kinda long in time.
Through the
the instrument. Then, turn on the
You can always change the MIDI notes. just right-click on it as with a sample audio
clip. Under Notes section you will find all that was present in the Clip section
for sample clips. Here you can't have any Warp since you don't have a waveform
to work with. Instead of such wave, you have the sequence of the notes that
are played with your instrument. The notes are indicated with the common music
standards. The letter represents the note, whereas the number means the octave
of interest. The downer you go, the lower frequency you will touch with your note.
It is very easy to edit the notes through the
Draw Mode
the notes you like and click on the notes drawn again to delete them.
To edit the notes in length, click and drag with the mouse their edges.
You can move the notes just dragging them all around.
If you want to hear each note added, make sure that the blue icon here is enabled.
If turned off, new notes or edited ones aren't played every time.
Once done with your notes, it may be pretty useful to use this
This will hide all notes in the
In this way you will have a better overall idea of the MIDI structure and edit it
without mistaking later.
Click on it again to show all the Piano Roll to come back adding new notes.
To set the right notes length you are looking for, you can change the Piano Roll
grid
For instance, and higher density lets you stretch a note through smaller steps.
If you want to change the length freely without snappings,
while you go on dragging edges. In this way you can set lengths
totally personalized.
You can also change the intensity of each note by editing them below,
when
The height of each red bar says how much the note is strong.
The stronger it is, the stronger is the note in red color shown.
To be more accurate in such value, drag the window to see better the peaks.
Make sure to have a percentage different from zero in the instrument options,
otherwise you won't hear the effect of the different peaks set.
The peaks can be done through the
do not release the mouse and drag it vertically. In this way you set the
intensity right while adding the note itself.
The number appearing above tells you the percentage of intensity.
A percentage
You can add audio to your MIDI file through a
Go to
from the list, for example
firstly added an instrument. As you can see the device added converts MIDI into
an output audio not silent. The device you added generates such audio,
depending on what you choose at its window properties.
There are two types of generator devices. There are ones that add just one
instrument generated and so they are managed exactly like the MIDI files with a
sample file imported as seen before. Some of them require to import a sample
external file, and modify it, or even more instruments at time like the Impulse device.
Some others let you put more instruments inside a single MIDI file, managed
separately and this can be pretty useful in making beats, like the
If you are interested in how to make beats, just watch the video related in this show.
Observe the left and the right side of such window. You can see the yellow and
black dots on the left that represent the MIDI input and on the right the
in output.
This is the first stage of a
the last window will have the definitive output linked to the MIDI clip.
In the Arrangement View, you can still add other MIDI files on the MIDI tracks that
already have an instrument. The instrument of such track is fixed, and you
can add different MIDI files that will use the same instrument.
Another thing to see is how to
through a
Arrangement View, and you have other recording buttons for each column,
MIDI ones or sample ones.
Turn on the rounded
the sends. These are used to fix the source to record inside the column
considered. Let's suppose to convert this MIDI track into a sample one put in the
third row of the first column. Turn on the rec button where there is the dB meter,
called
The squares will turn to circles, and they are all record buttons. In the new options,
just set in 'audio from' section the name of the MIDI column to convert. Then play
the MIDI file solo, and click on the rounded button of the third cell of this
first column.
You will see it being recorded. In red it's shown for how much time, in bars and beats.
Just click again to stop recording. And that's it, your MIDI file has become
a sample clip, complete with its own waveform.
A new feature of Live 9 is to make sample clips into MIDI clips
to convert audio into MIDI. These options appear when you try to move an audio
track on a filled MIDI track, when your mouse has a
In the
Choose
with notes inside played by a
or percussion. Let's make an example.
With the method seen before, create a melody using a MIDI track, and convert it
to an audio track, and export it in the Arrangement View.
This is a melody with a single instrument, converted into audio.
To make it back to MIDI, move such track in a vacant MIDI track, and choose
The track will be turned into MIDI, and Live will retrieve the notes inside the audio
track and will distribute them in the MIDI created.
Remember that such MIDI created does not have any instrument inside, which has
to be added.
If you add it and you put such MIDI track in phase with the original audio track,
you will hear that the notes are exactly the same. Use
need to extract notes from a known audio file imported.
The
with the difference that
so made by
If we take an audio file melody with more than a single instrument it's better to
use this kind of conversion.
If you notice better,
and Harmony, so choose the right one every time.
The most interesting one is the
MIDI track and load on such the
made by beats onto such MIDI. You will see that
automatically in Drum mode.
The notes you obtain aren't really notes in the usual standards, but are letters and
numbers indicating a different beat.
have in the
So fill the
If you play the original one and the converted one, you will hear the same
kind of beat.
Live is not precise 100% to locate the different beats used, but to extract
the MIDI clip from an audio file, at least on its kind, this tool is really great.
Once you get the beats and their distribution, you can choose to put hi-hats,
beats, or snares.
Well, this is all! I hope you enjoyed this video! Don't miss the next ones to discover
more about Live 9! See you!