by Bill Bernico | Dec 23, 2007 | Practical MIDI
I’ve written several articles about the use of MIDI files to replace several band members who may have grown out of the band thing. I’ve written about duo acts and solo acts filling the voids left by departing members. But I hadn’t even thought about MIDI taking just...
by Flash | Dec 22, 2007 | Music
Breaking Up The Band by Andre Calilhanna, Being in a band is often the most gratifying element in a musician's life. A band offers the opportunity to freely express oneself, create music, establish friendships, perform, travel... there's a lot to like. But there's...
by Bill Bernico | Dec 21, 2007 | Practical MIDI
I can go back forty years and recall when our four-piece band first recruited a keyboard player. Unlike the rest of us, he was trained and schooled in the fine points of music. That is, he could read it and play it better than any of the rest of us could have ever...
by Bill Bernico | Dec 20, 2007 | Practical MIDI
Let’s take a little break from all this midi talk for just this one column while I tell you a little story about how music changed my life. Had I not taken up the guitar, who knows what might have happened to me? Maybe you have a similar story you’d like to share with...
by Flash | Dec 19, 2007 | MIDI 101
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-year old son....
by Flash | Dec 18, 2007 | Music, News
Allegro Multimedia, a leading provider of educational software has chosen CYBERMIDI to create a jingle for Piano Wizard - the incredible video game that can teach anyone how to play piano fast. You can hear the song at http://www.cybermidi.com/pianowizard or watch...
