CYBERMIDI MUSIC and MIDI Blog

There are a lot of ways to create and enjoy music. Using MIDI software on digital home piano is one of them. Find out the advantages of this wonderful software. more »

This article talks about the technical side of MIDI, including MIDI ports, MIDI channels and how to use them, and the General MIDI Standard. After reading this article, it is hoped that you can have a better understanding of MIDI and be able to use it more fluently in digital music production. more »

Do you have to perform at the next stage performance? Are you finding musicians who can perform with you? Do you have limited budget? This article is suitable for all the live performers who are finding an affordable solution to it. more »

Author: Bob Miles Once you have recorded your musical composition onto a MIDI sequencer, what next? Well, you may have noticed some mistakes in your playing that you want to correct. Or you may want to change the composition to make it sound better. O… more »

Should You Play Live Or Use A Computer? With the computer being able to do so many composites' in the new era you might wonder should you play live or should you just synthesize every sound needed in the comfort of your own home? more »

Musicians have a choice as to what to use for their backing tracks when performing live. For those that want complete control, the use of MIDI files can be a great option. more »

In reality MIDI files are very petite since they use your sound card’s built-in instruments for crafting the sounds. The problem is that most sound cards don't have any decent sounds to start with, plus no two sound cards sound alike and therefore the results are very erratic. MIDI files usually sound like they're coming from one of those cheap Casio keyboards. Using MIDI for background music is very likely to make your site seem sloppy. Want to know how to do it anyway? Just add the line to your site and when the page gets loaded the file will be played robotically by the command named Auto Start. Although professional sound recording packages can be fairly costly, you can get your feet wet by trying out one of the obtainable shareware programs. more »

As a professional MIDI programmer, my job is to take a song and transform it into MIDI data. In short, you are taking all the parts: the chords, the notes, the drums, the dynamics, and reproducing them. As one example, a solo performer can now play and… more »

Back in the 1970's and '80's, pioneering home computing machines such as the Tandy Color Computer (COCO) had built-in sound. You could program simple tunes with the extended BASIC language. I remember coding Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture to amuse my four-y… more »

Why Would a Guitarist Want to Know about MIDI? more »