On 3/26/07, clinart <clinart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
1) Why use MIDI? I have heard stuff that I recorded professionally sequenced with MIDI and must say that I can hear a difference. Is this because it's all perfectly synced up? What are other advantages, if any, of MIDI over audio?
Midi and audio are not the same thing. With midi, you record the "score" of the music (notes used, velocity, and timing). You can playback a midi file of "fûr elise", and link it with a digital piano, or a sampler that will play a trumpet. MIDI doesn't record any sound, just the score.
I'd like to play with Rosegarden but don't have any MIDI files except the ones I made with Hydrogen. If I wanted to sync up a guitar track perfectly with the MIDI beat, I guess the best way would be to have the guitar track as MIDI too, but I don't have a MIDI hardware device. Next question...
If you want a real guitar sound, and not a synthesized or sampled one, there is no use for midi. To synchronize a midi track with an audio track, the only way, is to edit the guitar track in the audio domain.
2) Is there Linux software that can convert an audio signal/file to MIDI?
There are such software (i don't know for linux), but they do a very poor job at it. And what would be the purpose ?
