Nice explanation, thank you. It hadn't clicked for me that all those things were in a hierarchy: MIDI Port -> MIDI Channels -> MIDI CCs. The Inception analogy was a cool way to reinforce it. Thanks!
Your speech from 0:40 to 1:00 sums up my entire journey in trying to learn how to use a DAW. I've worked out enough to record my guitars and create a virtual drum track through total trial and error.
Great high level explanation in 4 minutes. I was looking for a deeper dive and your video came up but it is a perfect basis for understanding MIDI. Really like your delivery style and use of metaphors. Hope you keep more coming!
Wow i finally think I get it! it's like your audio is on channel 16 and your hard edit video footage is jamming down the highway on channels 1-15. some are going east some south, and some are even cruising down the auto bond, never ever syncing up with your audio ever again. SWEET! T╫H☼A♣N╞▼X
Pretty much lol love it. When it comes to time syncing a midi controller generally does have a time functionally so the different channels stay on time with each other relative to the native or source tempo. but they do jam down their own signal paths communicating back and forth 💪
There are a few handsful of standard CCs and up to 127 custom ones in total. Some of the CCs can be combined to create a longer message, an NRPN or others, which will spew out 4 controlers in the event list. They affect one channel. But the bandwidth of the cable is limited by the number of messages in total. The channel number is just a 4 bit identifier attached to each message. It's not like the cable is carved into 16 portions. When then cable is "full" the messages become a bit lagged.
Never knew that! Taking me back to basics with binary. I've officially used the power of 2's more than the Pythagorean theorem. I'm curious where you got your knowledge, do you work with hardware of software for MIDI devices?
I get that you are about FL Studio, I just wish you were a little more generic cuz I use Reaper with Nektar and Nektarine, but I LOVE your pace and teaching style. God bless you my friend !
Hey! Side effect of using FL Studio for 14 years 😅 My vision for this channel is to one day be all inclusive and bring on individuals who’s expertise are in other daw’s and musical fields. Hopefully if my channel progresses fast enough we’ll see that sooner than later 💪 Thanks for subscribing (per your other comment) and supporting the journey!
OMG!!!! TY TY TY TY for all the FL studio videos about MIDIs and cc's and well everything you are a godsend I was going to small all my things cuz I only found one review and one video on dinner DMK25 for FL and it was so not any help so thanks again brotha means so much stay blessed you and yours
So, to clarify, a MIDI CC is a type of message that communicates information to another device, and MIDI CC travels on a MIDI channel from MIDI Out port to MIDI In port
That’s a great question which is also dependent on the functionality of your midi controllers. If you set one controller to one channel and the other to another, you should in essence be able to use both. If your usb connection is port 1 for example, you can utilize port 1 channel 1 for one controller and port 1 channel 2 for the other. This will, however, depend upon your midi controllers, their features, and functionality.
I would peruse through the settings on your controllers, and/or user manuals to see what kind of settings are available for serial connections (running 5 pin from one controller to the next).
Thank you for the great videos but is there a reason you don't get into NRPNs? I understand that is the preferred method, yet I don't see many people using it. Thanks!
I don’t have much experience with anything besides pre assigned CC’s, midi channels, and ports 😬. Don’t want to talk about things I don’t know about, although, I would love to learn 💪
Your midi out, or your midi in that you connect your midi cable to are midi ports. In a virtual sense though your midi port is a number assigned to your “device” that represents this midi cable. So if you assigned a device to output 1 in your daw or other software, and then the input of whatever plug-in or instrument you wanted your device to effect to port 1 as well. Your device would send information directly and continuously to that plug-in/instrument via port 1. Which would be your virtual midi cable in your software or daw.
So a port is really just a pathway of communication between your device and other devices whether virtual or physical. If you have multiple physical outs and ins on your device you have multiple ports and in the virtual world the amount of ports available to be assigned are almost limitless.
If it has a midi output, then I don't see why not. I would check the user manual. I googled it and saw its a synth, not just a midi controller. If it doesn't support midi output, then you would probably need to record your AX7 like any other instrument via an instrument cable.
@@sanderromer6490 If you are trying to record to piano roll in FL Studio, and then later have that midi information in the piano roll control your ax7, you should be able to do that (I've never tried myself). Your ax7 needs to support midi input. You should use USB or if you are using midi, use a device such as an audio interface that has a midi output to send the signal to your ax7. If using midi you will need to go from the aforementioned midi out to the midi input of your ax7(if it has one). If using USB, the USB should be able to act as both your input and output. Once you have things configured physically you will need to configure the rest digitally. You will need to go to the output section of your midi settings in FL Studio and set an output port for your ax7. You will then need to configure your ax7 itself to accept the midi input (you will probably need to check your user manual). After all that is setup, open an instance of the Midi Out plugin in FL Studio, set the port to match the port of your ax7, and you should be good to go.
@@mbproductiondz7674 Gotchya. There is an unbalanced L/R audio output on the back. If you have not done so already, you will need to run the L/R audio output to an interface to record. If you want to record drums and instruments simultaneously you may be able to output the drums to the headphones and instruments to the output. Then you could take audio from the headphones and run that to a second input on the interface. However, I highly doubt that splitting your audio will be possible as described above. You will most likely need to record the drums and instruments separately and at different times. I wish I could be more helpful however I do not have any experience with Korgs.
But like dude, have you seen a m-audio Keystation Pro 88? It's got a lot of knobs and buttons. For real.... Lol I don't understand how to organize it all, which I would rather do first. Instead of just going at it and having to change so many things later on because I learned something new and it completely destroys my vision of mapping everything...lol That'd piss me off 😐
I have. A lot of knobs Forsure. The cool thing Is that it all comes pre-programmed pretty efficiently most of the time. so you only really have to worry about the fl studio side unless you're having specific problems. The keystation pro manual should have info on how to change the CC# of specific controls. Did you ever get to try and check the automation section in kontakt when you have symphony series open?
Applause! you would be the right person to explain how to solve conflict in logic pro with midi controllers. There are tons of video and they do not explain nothing! I know you are familiar with FL and I see a PC, but please think over. (There is a market because not everybody uses ableton as logic pro is just great because of the synth and other plugins, and is really cheap in comparison.
The way the video started, explaining what would be the end result, I knew this guy was going to bring clarity
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Nice explanation, thank you. It hadn't clicked for me that all those things were in a hierarchy: MIDI Port -> MIDI Channels -> MIDI CCs. The Inception analogy was a cool way to reinforce it. Thanks!
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Your speech from 0:40 to 1:00 sums up my entire journey in trying to learn how to use a DAW. I've worked out enough to record my guitars and create a virtual drum track through total trial and error.
The learning never stops but initial learning curve is the hardest part! You’re on your way to making awesome audio projects 💪
Finally, an easy to comprehend and very well taught explanation. Am no longer clueless about these essential distinctions. Thanks!
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1:30 "it's own little car on it's own little message road" I really like how you make it all so clear. Thank-you for the great video!
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This was phenomenal
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Sometimes you just need to hear the information one final time to really get it... thanks dude
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My man, perfect explanation. TY!
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great explanation very helpful cheers!
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Great high level explanation in 4 minutes. I was looking for a deeper dive and your video came up but it is a perfect basis for understanding MIDI. Really like your delivery style and use of metaphors. Hope you keep more coming!
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Dude, you have no idea how much this helped me. Thank you so much!
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OMG God bless you ! This is FINALLY the videos I need ! This is EXACTLY where I’m at. I’VE BEEN SO FRUSTRATED ! Yes I’m going to like and subscribe !
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks man!
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Wow i finally think I get it! it's like your audio is on channel 16 and your hard edit video footage is jamming down the highway on channels 1-15. some are going east some south, and some are even cruising down the auto bond, never ever syncing up with your audio ever again. SWEET! T╫H☼A♣N╞▼X
Pretty much lol love it. When it comes to time syncing a midi controller generally does have a time functionally so the different channels stay on time with each other relative to the native or source tempo. but they do jam down their own signal paths communicating back and forth 💪
Amazing explanation, ty so much!
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i like that midi analogy with inception. the concept made sense to me but the analogy helps it sink in
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this was super useful cheers bro
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There are a few handsful of standard CCs and up to 127 custom ones in total. Some of the CCs can be combined to create a longer message, an NRPN or others, which will spew out 4 controlers in the event list. They affect one channel. But the bandwidth of the cable is limited by the number of messages in total. The channel number is just a 4 bit identifier attached to each message. It's not like the cable is carved into 16 portions. When then cable is "full" the messages become a bit lagged.
Never knew that! Taking me back to basics with binary. I've officially used the power of 2's more than the Pythagorean theorem. I'm curious where you got your knowledge, do you work with hardware of software for MIDI devices?
Great work bro, much help!
Thanks for explaining.
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Awesome explanation dude c:
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thanx! man, finally so clear with a good metaphor
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Great video and analogy
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Very well put
Thank you!
I get that you are about FL Studio, I just wish you were a little more generic cuz I use Reaper with Nektar and Nektarine, but I LOVE your pace and teaching style. God bless you my friend !
Hey! Side effect of using FL Studio for 14 years 😅 My vision for this channel is to one day be all inclusive and bring on individuals who’s expertise are in other daw’s and musical fields. Hopefully if my channel progresses fast enough we’ll see that sooner than later 💪 Thanks for subscribing (per your other comment) and supporting the journey!
OMG!!!! TY TY TY TY for all the FL studio videos about MIDIs and cc's and well everything you are a godsend I was going to small all my things cuz I only found one review and one video on dinner DMK25 for FL and it was so not any help so thanks again brotha means so much stay blessed you and yours
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So, to clarify, a MIDI CC is a type of message that communicates information to another device, and MIDI CC travels on a MIDI channel from MIDI Out port to MIDI In port
100% correct! More concise and clear than how I said it 💪
@@ScaleAudio thanks for the video I had been struggling to find a simplified explanation! I finally get it
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Can I connect my music controllers together through 5 pin and then one through usb midi to my daw and be able to control both through daw
That’s a great question which is also dependent on the functionality of your midi controllers. If you set one controller to one channel and the other to another, you should in essence be able to use both. If your usb connection is port 1 for example, you can utilize port 1 channel 1 for one controller and port 1 channel 2 for the other. This will, however, depend upon your midi controllers, their features, and functionality.
I would peruse through the settings on your controllers, and/or user manuals to see what kind of settings are available for serial connections (running 5 pin from one controller to the next).
Thank you for the great videos but is there a reason you don't get into NRPNs? I understand that is the preferred method, yet I don't see many people using it. Thanks!
I don’t have much experience with anything besides pre assigned CC’s, midi channels, and ports 😬. Don’t want to talk about things I don’t know about, although, I would love to learn 💪
So does "device" relate to port number?
Your midi out, or your midi in that you connect your midi cable to are midi ports. In a virtual sense though your midi port is a number assigned to your “device” that represents this midi cable. So if you assigned a device to output 1 in your daw or other software, and then the input of whatever plug-in or instrument you wanted your device to effect to port 1 as well. Your device would send information directly and continuously to that plug-in/instrument via port 1. Which would be your virtual midi cable in your software or daw.
So a port is really just a pathway of communication between your device and other devices whether virtual or physical. If you have multiple physical outs and ins on your device you have multiple ports and in the virtual world the amount of ports available to be assigned are almost limitless.
Well a port is a single routing path right?
@@tudorgheorghe4532 A port is the main path for all of the midi data to travel.
Will my Technics AX7 work with FL studio?
If it has a midi output, then I don't see why not. I would check the user manual. I googled it and saw its a synth, not just a midi controller. If it doesn't support midi output, then you would probably need to record your AX7 like any other instrument via an instrument cable.
It has midi output. I can record into FL. I just cant get it to playback from FL.
@@sanderromer6490are you trying to record a synth session and have the audio from your session playback?
@@ScaleAudio I am trying to playback a simple bit of notes through the ax7
@@sanderromer6490 If you are trying to record to piano roll in FL Studio, and then later have that midi information in the piano roll control your ax7, you should be able to do that (I've never tried myself). Your ax7 needs to support midi input. You should use USB or if you are using midi, use a device such as an audio interface that has a midi output to send the signal to your ax7. If using midi you will need to go from the aforementioned midi out to the midi input of your ax7(if it has one). If using USB, the USB should be able to act as both your input and output. Once you have things configured physically you will need to configure the rest digitally. You will need to go to the output section of your midi settings in FL Studio and set an output port for your ax7. You will then need to configure your ax7 itself to accept the midi input (you will probably need to check your user manual). After all that is setup, open an instance of the Midi Out plugin in FL Studio, set the port to match the port of your ax7, and you should be good to go.
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How to record korg pa600 stayl on fl studio I wont the sound and drums in deferent tracks. thank you very much
@@mbproductiondz7674 Of course! Are you trying to record audio specifically from the Korg or use it as a midi controller?
@@ScaleAudio to record audio specifically from the korg
@@mbproductiondz7674 Gotchya. There is an unbalanced L/R audio output on the back. If you have not done so already, you will need to run the L/R audio output to an interface to record. If you want to record drums and instruments simultaneously you may be able to output the drums to the headphones and instruments to the output. Then you could take audio from the headphones and run that to a second input on the interface. However, I highly doubt that splitting your audio will be possible as described above. You will most likely need to record the drums and instruments separately and at different times. I wish I could be more helpful however I do not have any experience with Korgs.
But like dude, have you seen a m-audio Keystation Pro 88?
It's got a lot of knobs and buttons. For real.... Lol
I don't understand how to organize it all, which I would rather do first. Instead of just going at it and having to change so many things later on because I learned something new and it completely destroys my vision of mapping everything...lol
That'd piss me off 😐
I have. A lot of knobs Forsure. The cool thing Is that it all comes pre-programmed pretty efficiently most of the time. so you only really have to worry about the fl studio side unless you're having specific problems. The keystation pro manual should have info on how to change the CC# of specific controls. Did you ever get to try and check the automation section in kontakt when you have symphony series open?
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Applause! you would be the right person to explain how to solve conflict in logic pro with midi controllers. There are tons of video and they do not explain nothing! I know you are familiar with FL and I see a PC, but please think over. (There is a market because not everybody uses ableton as logic pro is just great because of the synth and other plugins, and is really cheap in comparison.
I would love to! It's a goal to be able to do so at some point!
beutifully explained, thumbs up
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