FAQ
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments , computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing and recording music. MIDI carries event messages, data that specify the instructions for music, including a note’s notation,pitch, velocity (which is heard typically as loudness or softness of volume), vibrato, panning to the right or left of stereo, and clock signals (which set tempo). When a musician plays a MIDI instrument, all of the key presses, button presses, knob turns and slider changes are converted into MIDI data. MIDI files can be played by MIDI player and can be very useful for instrument learning. This is due to the fact that you can see the sheet music being played in real time, you can change the speed at which it is played, isolate instruments etc…
The Instrumental Backing Track is made from the MIDI file using a DAW ( Digital Audio Workstation e.g Cubase, Logic, Reason etc…). This allows you to assign more realistic sounds to each MIDI note as well manipulate many different parameters to control instrument expression.
It also allows you to Mix & Master the arrangement you created in order for it to sound as realistic as possible.
The 3 products have different uses: MIDI Sequences are excellent learning tools, especially for Beginners. Instrumental Backing Tracks can be used as a Karaoke for fun or it can be used in a more Professional context if you are a performing artist. It often happens that you may be required to perform a certain song but there aren’t enough musicians available to play each part. In such scenario, the use of a well-produced Instrumental Backing Track allows you to overcome the problem. We Mix & Master each Instrumental Track in our professional studios and deliver each track ready-to-use with no further audio processing needed. Sheet Music is ideal for Performing Artists.