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Midi Program?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Hi everyone,
I am by no means a midi genius and need some help. What I need to do is write a good deal of cheesy computer game midi music. That's the easy part (for me.  Can anybody recommend any programs that can record midi from a keyboard?
I have a EMU Proteus (quite old) but it has much better sampled instruments than the built in quicktime. The only problem is that they're before general midi came out, so they're completely randomly organized.
So, basically, here are my questions:
1) Can anyone recommend a cheap USB midi adapter?
2) Does anyone know of a good easy to use not very expensive program that can record midi. If it could convert it to editable sheet music, that'd be good too, but not necessary. I had sibelius for os 9, do you think they'd still give me the upgrade price?
3) Is making midi songs all that hard to do? I have a lot of the music written out already, but I'd like to be able to hear it, and make changes, and possibly compose more of it in the program that at a piano, as they're hard to come by where I am. Thanks.
Gabe
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
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check out Reason, you can try the demo...
a great program.
m-audio, among others, makes cheap midi-to -usb adapters, you can check the musicstores, or go to:
samash.com
zzounds.com
reason is here:
http://www.propellerheads.se/index.php3
have fun!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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first off, the proteus is a classic. used to have one, Proteus 1XR (had to sell it for cash); now i wish i had it back. it had sweet strings.
1) yeah, check out m-audio. i'm using a midiman usb 2x2, works great. got it for about $60 when guitar center had them on sale.
2)honestly, right now, i think the best program out there (that's not a demo, and is free) will have to be ProTools Free. unfortunately, it's a 9 only program. but for all it does, it's worth booting into 9.
3)if you can wrtie music, you'll be able to input notes in a midi program. no big deal. if you're not comfortable clicking notes on a mouse, then hook up a midi controller keyboard up to a midi interface, click record, and play in real time.
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