From the course: Digital Audio Foundations
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Storing and processing MIDI
- Among its various other strengths MIDIs editing flexibility makes it an excellent tool for sketching and composing music. Most DAWs include powerful tools to store, edit, and process MIDI using a built-in MIDI sequencer. Internally, the sequencer stores MIDI instructions using numbers, and many DAWs can show you the raw numbers in a format called an event list. But, that's not the most convenient way to work with MIDI. Most DAWs give you the option to represent the MIDI data as regular music notation, as guitar tabulature, or in a grid format. This grid view is often called a piano roll view, because it resembles the old player piano rolls with holes punched in paper. It's very convenient, especially for people who don't read traditional sheet music, and it's become the most common way to work with MIDI sequences. For example, here's a representation of a note. (single note plays) The place where it starts is the note on command and the place where it ends is the note off command…
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