MIDI Production: From First Performance to MIDI 2.0
Mike Lawson · artistproMedia

24 original lessons and narrated videos, editable MIDI labs, ArtistPro instrument demonstrations, and practical projects.
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Course outline
- A performance is not a recording
- Find your way around the ArtistPro studio
- Record, export, and reopen
- Ports, channels, and one clear route
- Read a note before changing it
- Velocity, pressure, sustain, and pitch
- Tempo, grid, and the sound of timing
- Swing, humanization, and intentional variation
- Program drums as a performance
- Sampling: the source is part of the instrument
- FM: change the spectrum at the source
- Layering, registers, and the mono check
- Higher resolution, with an audible purpose
- Per-note expression and MPE
- Discovery and Profiles: agreement before control
- UMP and transports without the jargon trap
- Property Exchange and safe configuration
- Files, conversion, and the handoff package
- Bring MIDI and live audio together
- Arrange first, then shape the sound
- Automation, Clock, timecode, and transport
- A diagnostic path from silence to sound
- Accessible practice and responsible collaboration
- Capstone: a complete musical handoff