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Working With MIDI / Step Input




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Step Input. So, with Step Input what that allows us to do is to take our individual Input as we play on the Keyboard and play in non-Realtime. So, let me assign our Instrument to go to something that is Pitched. It doesn't have to be, but it makes it a little easier here for our demonstration purposes. And I'm going to get rid of all of our MIDI that we've got so far. So, anything on here, let's wipe it out, and we're going to go up to Event, and in Event Operations we've got this option that is Step Input. What this does, as we play, is allows us to go in and play one by one each of our notes. So let me pull that up one more time: Event Operations, Step Input, and you need to make sure this is enabled and so now any of my MIDI information coming into my Track is getting recorded. So, right now I've got my Value set to eighth notes, if I change this to quarter notes, what I'm recording is quarter notes now. Let me go to whole notes. We'll play this back, hit Return. And I can go in and change my Velocities after the fact if I want to on individual notes. I can Pencil these in, and these Editors are separate from one another, which is really nice. So, all my Tools and things that I've got can all be individualized. So, my various controls and parameters there, remapped in an earlier movie. So, what about actually going in and doing spaces? So, if I want to actually have Rests, that's just a gap here, right? So, a Rest is having nothing in that spot. So, it's going through and using Sibelius's Engine and creating a Score for us, and this tail, or these leads that we're getting, is based on a Preference as well when we're in the Score, so we'll discuss that in another movie. But there are my Settings, there are my whole notes that I've got, and each of my individual eighth notes that were played. So again, that was found under Event, Event Operations. One other thing I want to point out here is under our Step Input, so we have Key Commands that are associated with these. So if I go in and choose to enable these Keyboard Shortcuts, what this does is if I type a number 1 in then I'm going to get a whole note; 2, half note; 3, a dotted value, so our tuplet in this case; and if I go to 4, quarter notes, and then it breaks down from there. So, and this is on the Number Pad. So, I'm recording each of these. If I continue to hold down notes, then when I'm actually recording is a chord, so I'm going to do 1, and let go of the first one, and then when I let go I've got my chord. So, make sure that you actually release. If I want to go to the next step here then this actually inserts my space and so forth. So, there's my tuplet for triplet, let me disable that, take off my Keyboard Shortcuts. If you're not actually getting any control keep in mind that you want to make sure that you've got MIDI Thru on. If you don't have MIDI Thru on it's not actually passing any information on to your Instrument, that could be definitely a problem as far as troubleshooting goes. So, let's Play this wonderful masterpiece. Wow. OK, so that's using our Step Input.

Tutorial Information

Course: Digidesign Pro Tools 8
Author: Adam Olson
SKU: 34006
ISBN: 1-935320-52-1
Release Date: 2009-07-17
Duration: 13.5 hrs / 222 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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