MIDI
What it is, how we use it
We at the NSHOS hope that this brief overview
of MIDI has been helpful. As I mentioned before, there is a lot of information
on the web about MIDI and its various applications. It is a wonderful
tool for musicians as it opens possibilities that were not available before.
For example, if you wrote a song and then wanted to hear what it would
sound like if played by a small group, or a larger group and also hear
it on many different instruments, it would be almost impossible for you
to do that unless you hired a number of musicians to play it for you.
MIDI, however, with good equipment lets you play all of the individual
instrumental parts and do so both with great accuracy and authentic instrument
sounds.
Here are a few samples or excerpts of MIDI
effects combined with a Hammond Organ. Notice in Take Five the
realistic saxophone and drums with piano background. The second track
is a MIDI version of the famous Take Five drum solo. The next song, Goofus,
demonstrates a rhythm section and also a banjo, and finally in the beginning
of Hawaiian War Chant, notice the realistic guitar and other
instruments. Note that these are not complete songs, just short samplings
to demonstrate what is possible with MIDI.
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