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If you missed our online workshop “Intro to MIDI” on 03/06 you can watch a replay of it here.

Make sure you sign up for the next session, Saturday 03/20 @ 2:00 Eastern, where we will take a look at General MIDI and General MIDI2. Sign up at IMMusic Inc. Webinars.

See you there!

Join Ric Iannone Friday, March 19, 2010 for an overview of the Roland V-PIANO, LX-10 and DP-990 pianos.

Sam Ash MANHATTAN
160 W. 48th St.
New York, NY 10036
Telephone: (212) 719-2299
Time: 11:00AM—2:00PM

Type of Event: Clinic

Join us on Saturday 03/20 @ 2:00 Eastern as we take a look at GM and GM2 MIDI files and go over some of the differences. Sign up below. Limited to the first 50 attendees.

New to MIDI? Want to learn the basics of what it is and how to make your first MIDI connections? Join us for an overview of MIDI. Limited to the first 50 registrations.

Sign up using the form below. We will be send you an e-mail with logon instructions for the Webinar. See you there!

It has been quite awhile since we posted anything. Partly due to the end of the year rush and quite honestly we thought we would just back off all of the online posting – Twitter, Facebook, etc. and see what would happen. Oh yeah, one other thing – we have been hard at work on a project called Returning to the Piano. It will be published by Hal Leonard and it is a great resource if you haven’t played for a few years and are looking for help in getting your chops back. Wendy Stevens wrote the book and we did the backing tracks for it.

Stop by the Hal Leonard booth at the NAMM show and check it out!

All modern DAW’s (Digital Audio Workstations) offer multiple views of your project. Like just about anything computer based there are multiple ways to do the same thing and perhaps part of what makes a personal computer – personal. We selected the three views that we use the most in Sonar 8 when working on a project and listed some of the things you can do from each view.

The first view is called the Track View and probably where we spend most of our time. It allows access to most everything you need when working with MIDI or audio based data. In the MIDI world you can set volume and channel information along with panning and reverb levels. You also have access to the MIDI bank and patch commands allowing you to select the instrumentation used in your arrangement.

If you work with audio tracks, similar to above, you can set all of the various levels. In addition, you can access any of  the built-in effects processors that you may want to add to a a track. Out of the box Sonar provide a nice selection of reverbs, compressors, delays, flangers… the list goes on.

Sonar 8 Track View

If we are not working in the track view than you will probably find us in the event list view. While this is used in the MIDI world only, it allows you to drill down to an individual note or any other MIDI event and make adjustments to a single event. For example, you may have one track that has cymbals crashes on it and find that one event is considerably louder than all the others. A quick fix is to bring up the event list view, find the offending cymbal crash, and change the velocity up and down to match the velocity of the other cymbal crashes.

Sonar 8 Event List View

As we have stated to work with more audio data, we have also started working with the console view. Pretty much as the name implies, it brings up a virtual console similar to a physical mixer you would find in a studio. You can use the console view for both MIDI and audio tracks and also with projects that contain both track types. All of the same editing features found in the track view mentioned above are available in the the console view.

Sonar 8 Console View

We would be interested to hear and learn how you use the different views available in your favorite DAW. Drop us a note – We might just start using a new view!

A CD we released in early 2009 with a collection of musical styles.

Musical Arrangements #1 by immusic

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IMMusic Inc. Podcast 118 Happy Holidays 09 Demo Ave Maria. IMMusic Inc. provides help for the home keyboard player in the form of how-to podcasts and also offers MIDI and MP3 format backing tracks.