* Suitable for hardware or computer based sequencers
* Program guitar, bass, keyboard, drums, wind and string instruments
* Info on MIDI effects, quantising, controllers, SysEx, synchronising
* Section on using MIDI live
* No need to read music
If you want to get better results from your sequencer you need this book.
Written by leading MIDI song file producer Dave Clackett of Hands On MIDI Software, the book lists the hardware and software you need to set up a sequencing system, and introduces the basics of sequencing and music notation.
It explains how to program drums, keyboard, guitar and bass, as well as 'real' instruments - woodwind, brass, strings etc., and shows how effects, controllers, SysEx and quantising can be used to fine tune your song files. There are sections on synchronising to tape, standard MIDI files, copyright, transcribing from record, and a chapter on using MIDI files live.
The book will be of particular interest to musicians using General MIDI/GS/XG equipment, but all the examples are relevant whether you use a hardware based sequencer or an Atari, PC, Mac or Amiga.
With a help section, a glossary and appendices on General MIDI data, it's a book no MIDI musician can afford to be without.
