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Many audio control surfaces are MIDI-based and so are essentially MIDI controllers. While the most common use of MIDI controllers is to trigger musical sounds and play musical instruments, MIDI controllers are also used to control other MIDI-compatible devices, such as stage lights, digital audio mixers and complex guitar effects units .
A keyboardless MIDI controller, the Novation Launchpad, was launched in 2009 with an 8x8 grid of large illuminated buttons that could be used to trigger sounds, loops, effects and other parameters, initially in conjunction with the Ableton Live music performance application. Launchpad was one of the first grid-based performance controllers and ...
Ableton has also released their own MIDI controller, the Push, which is the first pad-based controller that embraces scales and melody. [24] In November 2015, Ableton released an updated MIDI controller, the Push 2, along with Live 9.5. [25] Push 2 features a new color display, improved buttons and pads, and a lighter frame. [26]
The Novation Launchpad is an electronic music multi-button controller for the popular live control application Ableton Live, [1] featuring a grid of 64 (8x8) brightly illuminated square buttons. Each button can be assigned to a clip, (a piece of audio or MIDI that may or may not be looped).
Standard MIDI files trigger sounds played on a synthesizer. Play ⓘ Standard MIDI Files (SMF) contain instructions that trigger sounds played by a synthesizer which is typically expected to meet the General MIDI specification. On a personal computer these instructions can be turned into sound by either a software synthesizer, or by sending ...
Deckadance (often referred to as DD) is a DJ console and mixing tool developed by Image-Line software and acquired in 2015 by Gibson. [1] [2] Initially released in May 2007, [3] it operates on Windows and Mac OS X, and comes in a House Edition and Club Edition.
A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control, and possibly audio and automation data for digital audio workstations (DAWs) and plug-ins.
Shortly after the MIDI standard came out Roland introduced the Roland MPU-101, a MIDI to CV/gate converter that takes an input from four MIDI channels; i.e. a variable base MIDI channel plus the next three consecutive MIDI channels and converted up to four MIDI channels into four separate CV/gate outputs able to control four separate CV/gate ...