Hey guys, in this video we’re going to cover how to record and edit MIDI in SoundBridge.
We’ll go over how to do this with a MIDI controller and manually by drawing MIDI notes.
Then we’ll cover how we can make adjustments to the MIDI tracks we record.
Before watching this video, just make sure to check out our previous tutorials in this
series.
To get started, we need to add a new MIDI track.
This is done in the same way as the audio track, but we select MIDI instead.
We also need to select an instrument for this track and we should do this now.
SoundBridge doesn’t include any instruments, so I added a few when I added VST effects
to the program in the first tutorial.
There are a lot of free VST instruments you can use with the program, and I’ve done
some videos on these in the past, so don’t assume you need to purchase anything to get
this to work.
Next up, we’ll want to add our MIDI device as an input, in the same way as we added an
audio input to an audio track.
We can arm and record the track in the same we did with audio.
Once again, be careful of the punch in and out points, count in, and looping.
After we have the clip recorded, we can click on it like we did before to get more options.
If we click on notes, we can change the MIDI event.
First we have the note.
We can type in a different note, or press the up and down arrows to change it by one
octave.
To the right, we can change the note velocity.
If we select two notes and press the equals sign, it will set both notes to the pitch
of the leftmost note.
The same is true if we use this button for the velocity, position, and length.
Below that we can divide or multiply the note length by 2.
Reverse reverses the MIDI notes in the clip.
Invert inverts the high and low notes of the clip.
Legato changes the note length so that the next note starts when the previous note finishes.
The duplicate button creates a copy of the MIDI notes immediately to the right.
Then we have the controls for our continuous controller.
The left button allows us to see it.
The right menu allows us to choose what we’re working with, such as the pitch.
To make edits, select the draw tool and draw on the MIDI clip.
Select All allows us to select all the MIDI events at once.
If we do this with view enabled for the continuous controller, it will select that instead of
the notes.
The loop tool allows us to loop the clip.
Now we should look at how we can manually enter MIDI.
To do this, we’ll be using the draw tool and the select tool.
If we haven’t prerecorded a MIDI clip, click and drag on the track to create a new clip
with the draw tool.
Then you can extend the length of it if you need to by dragging the end with the select
tool.
Then we can click on the clip to bring up the piano roll.
Changing the view of the piano roll by scrolling and zooming works in the same way as the tracks
view like we saw in the last video.
To maximize the piano roll, click and drag the double arrow at the top up to get us more
space vertically.
We can also hide the right file menu and effects rack by pressing the buttons in the bottom
right.
Unfortunately, we can never completely get rid of the mixer or tracks view, so the piano
roll can’t take up all the vertical space.
With the draw tool, we can click and drag to create MIDI events.
With the select tool, we can select notes to delete them, reposition them, and change
their length.
With the draw tool, we can also click a note again to delete it.
The vertical bar at the bottom that lines up with the note is used to adjust the velocity.
Drag it up or down to change the velocity.
In select mode, we can click a note to select it and change the velocity of only that note
if there are others that start at the same time.
The last thing we need to cover for MIDI in SoundBridge is quantization.
Quantization allows us to adjust the start position of the MIDI events, since recording
with a MIDI controller doesn’t always lead to perfect timing.
First, set the snapping resolution to the largest resolution you can, which represents
the smallest note value you have in your music.
So if the fastest you’re playing is eight notes, then don’t set it to 16th notes,
because this can cause the notes to snap to the wrong place.
Then use the select tool to click and drag to highlight all your notes.
Finally, go to the bottom right and press the quantize button.
All the notes will snap to the grid, but play it back in case any of them snapped in the
wrong direction.
If they did, make sure you have snapping enabled, click that note, and drag it to where it should
be.
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