artistproMediaLearning Studio

MIDI Production: From First Performance to MIDI 2.0

Mike Lawson · artistproMedia

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24 original lessons and narrated videos, editable MIDI labs, ArtistPro instrument demonstrations, and practical projects.

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Course outline

  1. A performance is not a recording
  2. Find your way around the ArtistPro studio
  3. Record, export, and reopen
  4. Ports, channels, and one clear route
  5. Read a note before changing it
  6. Velocity, pressure, sustain, and pitch
  7. Tempo, grid, and the sound of timing
  8. Swing, humanization, and intentional variation
  9. Program drums as a performance
  10. Sampling: the source is part of the instrument
  11. FM: change the spectrum at the source
  12. Layering, registers, and the mono check
  13. Higher resolution, with an audible purpose
  14. Per-note expression and MPE
  15. Discovery and Profiles: agreement before control
  16. UMP and transports without the jargon trap
  17. Property Exchange and safe configuration
  18. Files, conversion, and the handoff package
  19. Bring MIDI and live audio together
  20. Arrange first, then shape the sound
  21. Automation, Clock, timecode, and transport
  22. A diagnostic path from silence to sound
  23. Accessible practice and responsible collaboration
  24. Capstone: a complete musical handoff