What is MIDI? An Introduction For Guitarists | Too Afraid To Ask [Meloaudio MIDI Commander] 

CSGuitars what amp sim do you use? I used amplitube 4 whitout an interface and it worked great hadn’t a lot of latency but now something glitches whit it and there is like 3 seconds of latency now. So I’m looking for an alternative also because I didn’t really like its interface!

dONTE KNOW IF YOU HAVER EVER BUILT THIS SETUP BUTT.... Actually if an MPE midI pickup is applied to a guitar, the guitar notes can activate effects... Literally 1 set of effects per note! Then if you applies the newish Perfect tuning systems like Evertune (ie. removing detune bends) the bends can also activate effects (also activating auto bending and detuneing yah crazy butt were controlling with midi)! aLSO TO NOTE:THE GUITAR would effectively have the capacity to in time with the guitar score control a keyboards synth plus...... drumroll any other equipment via midi aka the Midi tech plays lead guitar... Plus we could finally get to full use of Guitar voltages as synth input!

foot switches are out of date it's time the guitar player controls midi with the strings! but... add foot swtiches back in an yaggg!

@@marcolondon1005 last night I FARTED!

"Dedgitul"

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"sound of shattering glas in my head"... Thank you, now i can´t unhear it anymore

Thats how you change your toooon

If it works, don't fix it

As opposed to USB that still kinda sucks and we're on what is essentially version 6 since 1996.

Kylie McInnes there’s a reason why my boss refers to it as Universal Security Breach 😂

ccandrew111 lmaoo

First time perfect :p

it can do everything as long as you don't necessarily care about how it does it -- the availability of only 128 values for CCs/etc is a rather frustrating limitation that severely diminishes the value of MIDI for certain applications =/

And Periphery!

That is a very good way of doing it! And you must really trust your drummer to never go off the click lol

@@ebheron hasn't happened yet!

According to my research, this can also be used to control lighting effects as well, which actually would be the main reason I would play to a click, so that I can perfectly synced with a pre-programmed light show.

@@reaganharder1480 We do that as well. The only downside, the only device that converts MIDI is a DecaBox. Expensive and high learning curve. But if you are running a laptop at the same time you can avoid it.

Because MIDI is so good... there's little to improve and a lot to screw up for a new standard.

@@Mtaalas MIDI 2.0 is a real developing thing btw

not sure if you are playing heh, but they are working on it. The original MIDI is from the early 80's and they used that monster DIN like original PC keyboards used. They also used a serial-data protocol that was pretty inefficient regarding power waste and it was slow. 220ohm current sink resistors holy crap what a waste. Today it could be gigaherz through a 1megohm circuit that was lightning fast and uses basically no juice. the data packet size could be increased 100x if needed. so IMO this 30 year old convention definitely needs an upgrade

@@certifiedpossum8655 I do know that. But that's also the reason why it's still not ready yet. MIDI doesn't work unless it's easy to implement, universal and backwards compatible and used by everyone... so it has taken decades to come up with an extension. And the improvements aren't really amazing as such.. more resolution, more channels, more bandwidth... but it's all the same old same old :) So ultimately we need innovation from the device makers and ensure that interoperability that made MIDI so good stays untouched. And that's not given :)

​@@jjrusy7438 I'm an electronics engineer, and MIDI hardware layer is absolutely well thought out and doesn't need "gigahertz" speeds... the main reason for the current loop was noise immunity and simplicity. the current loop allows you to have cheap cables and connectors and very high interference immunity while still providing long cable runs AND galvanic isolation with optocouplers. These are essential aspects of MIDI being reliable and fool proof on the road and in the studio. for example, USB is one of the worst things that ever happened to MIDI since it gave away galvanic isolation, made the hardware and software implementation way more complicated, isn't as immune to noise, doesn't allow as long of cable runs than original specification etc... All it gives you is apparent convenience, but event that isn't guaranteed since it often requires drivers and if the cable for what ever reason disconnects, in many cases you need to restart your software to restore the connection instead of just plugging it back in. So no, midi doesn't need gigahertz speeds, it need to be reliable, highly versatile, cheap and fool proof. Just increase of baudrate to 10x the current one would be over the real requirement. For those who need it all, we have OSC... MIDI doesn't need to be OSC.

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I have an ES-8. The interface is shit and annoying because you constantly have to click through a million menus, but it can do EVERYTHING and will never fail you once you figure it out. YMWV, but I had to add an EB Tech Line Level Shifter in the loop to adjust the levels of my main tube amp (Randall RT100) signal which was way too hot. That amp also didn't play nice with the ES-8's latching/momentary channel switching (it would "chirp" when switching high gain channels), so I got a Voodoo Lab Control Switcher which turns channel switching into a midi signal that the ES-8 controls without issue. But, my backup solid state plays nice with the ES-8 out of the box without having to add anything (it doesn't have midi either). On the ES-8, I have every patch send an actual latching channel switch signal as well as a midi channel switch simultaneously so it can work with my main and backup the same. I rewired a footswitch cable from my backup to mirror the channel switching of the Control Switcher, so if my main ever goes down, I just have to swap out 3 of the 4 cable method and plug in the footswitch cable into the ES-8 and I'm back and running without having to change any settings.

There's a lot of room on top of that one that needs filled up.

Switches are awful but no worse than the £300 Midi Maestro

Another thing you can do with MIDI is program it in advance, such that all you have to do on stage is stay synced with it, and your pre-programmed track will do everything else for you.

Another thing you can do with MIDI is to sound like absolutelly crap...

In-phase coils enhance the frequencies that out-of-phase coils cut. It's about the relationship between the coils' output signals.

Glad to have you on board. Also, fuck that guy.

Exactly! Fuck that guy! I was the dude who had his evening poo brightened 😂