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Tutorial 3: Recording and Editing MIDI

Browsing sounds

We are now going to load sounds into our virtual instrument

“HALionOne”.

1. Click the “Preset” button in “HALionOne” and choose

“Load Preset” from the pop-up menu.

2. In the “Category” section, make sure only “Strings” is

selected by deselecting anything else and clicking on

“Strings”. You have filtered the list to only show strings.

Choose a string sound from the list on the right, e.g.

“StereoST1”. Then click “OK”.

MIDI recording

Now that we have our sound, let’s record something. Re-

cording MIDI is very similar to recording audio, see the

chapter “Tutorial 1: Recording Audio” on page 22.

Setting MIDI input

1. Make sure you have a MIDI keyboard connected to your

computer either directly through USB or a MIDI interface.

See the chapter “Setting up your system” on page 12 for information on

setting up MIDI in your computer.

2. We want to have our MIDI keyboard routed to this

track and play “HALionOne”. Make sure the “Inspector” is

shown so we can see our MIDI input and output routing.

3. Next, on the input routing pop-up menu, choose the

MIDI input you wish to use. Most people leave this on “All

MIDI Inputs” since you don’t have to worry about which in-

put is which. “All MIDI Inputs” takes the MIDI signal from

all your inputs and routes it to this track. There are some

cases where you wouldn’t want this but for 99% of the

time you’ll be safe with this option selected.

The MIDI input routing pop-up menu.

4. Below the MIDI input routing pop-up menu, you can

set the MIDI output. This is set to our virtual instrument

“HALionOne”. If for any reason you need to change this to

another instrument you can do this here.

Load the project called “Recording MIDI 2” found in

the “Tutorial 3” folder.