This is my first tinkering with the Midi file
As mentioned in an earlier post, Yo-Yo Ma’s iece is good to use but not good to edit.
One way to go around this is to find a MIDI recording of Bach’s Cello suite No 1.
Overview of MIDI
From https://blog.landr.com/what-is-midi/ :
“MIDI is a communication standard that allows digital music gear to speak the same language.
MIDI is short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It’s a protocol that allows computers, musical instruments and other hardware to communicate.
MIDI was first developed in the early 80s to standardize the growing amount of digital music hardware.
Manufacturers needed a simple way to make their products compatible with those of other brands.
Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi proposed the idea of a standard instrument language to the other major manufacturers, including Oberheim, Sequential Circuits and Moog, in 1981.
The project had some lofty goals. MIDI attempted to provide a way to communicate all the features of a musical performance digitally.
The architects of the MIDI standard had to define all kinds of complex musical behaviour in a way that 1980s-era technology could work with—not an easy task.
Their choices had big consequences for the way electronic instruments were designed for the next 40 years.
The finished MIDI standard was finally unveiled in 1982. Kakehashi and Dave Smith both later received Technical Grammy Awards in 2013 for their key roles in the development of MIDI—about time!”
So if I can get my hands on a MIDI recording of the Cello Suite I’d have a greater sense of freedom to be creative.
Getting my MIDI file
With a simple google search I found:
I am interested in the Prelude.
Opening up the MIDI file
I imported the file to Garageband. The good thing about Garageband is that it builds upon technologies of Logic Pro X while staying not too technical. You can call it semi-amateur. You can call it semi-pro.
Listen to this here.
Editing this recording
While this recording is correct, it lacks the emotional cues and dynamics.
My work in this part is to edit this recording.
I particularly enjoy listening to the first 4 bars looped.
Further modifications are needed to the notes encoded in the MIDI file before I can use it effectively in Garageband.
This rearrangement enables me to apply Arpeggiators and other sorts of nice effects.
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