Midi Instruments

Over the summer I bought Pro Tools and a drum sampler called Battery. Unfortunately Pro Tools has a horrendous sequencer and so I was planning on getting a midi pad in order make sequencing drums easier. This is the midi controller I was looking at. It is the Akai MPD24. It has 16 touch sensitive pads with 'aftertouch' with 6 sliders and 8 knobs.



As we saw today in class, you can assign any function to the pads, sliders, and knobs that is available within a software program. The pad are velocity sensitive so when it accesses a drum sound, you can make it sound like you are hitting the drum harder.

I am also big into guitar and all the related gear involved with it, including amps and effects. Midi can be used with many of the higher end amps and effects. Using a midi controller such as the Roland FC-300 you can change channels on your amplifier and change patches in your effect unit.