BandLab - How To Create EDM Anthems Using MIDI Loops

BandLab - How To Create EDM Anthems Using MIDI Loops

Hi, It’s Phil form Inclusive Music - Teaching the world to make music with Bandlab

And In this video, I’m going to share with you the amazing creative potential of MIDI files, What they are and how to use them effectively in BandLab to take your music to the next level. Plus how you can get hold of a completely unique MIDI and audio Loop pack which includes Bass riffs, melodies, beats and chord progressions that you won’t find anywhere else. Enabling you to put together great-sounding tunes.

If you’re ready, let’s get started.

So what is a midi file and why should you be using them? Let’s get the geeky bit out of the way!

Well, it’s a set of instructions for your computer telling it what to do when it receives MIDI data. These instructions can include many things but perhaps most importantly it will dictate what note to play, how hard to play that note and how long to hold the note.

So what’s all the fuss about?

Well, one major advantage of working with MIDI is that it’s so flexible. Once you’ve created or sent MIDI data, it can be transferred or edited with a few mouse clicks.

So, for example, I can drop a midi drum file into BandLab and quickly and easily change how it sounds.

in this video, you'll find some examples midi files from the Inclusive Music EDM Classic Loop Pack.

I'll demonstrate - Drums changing a note to a different sound, piano changing a note to a different pitch, changing note to a different position/rhythm, Randomly adding notes with the mouse, changing the kit, changing to a creator kit, changing tempo without affecting the quality of the sound

Working with MIDI is also an easy way to make music quickly. It allows you to make music without having to actually record anything. Demonstrate dropping in a midi file from a chord progression folder. - It’s already done for you - change the order of the chords, slice them up, create a bass line from the lowest note

MIDI files are much smaller than audio files so it’s much easier for your computer to process lots of them at once. This means your DAW is far less likely to crash when playing thirty MIDI files than when playing thirty audio files.

But in my view, the most important thing about midi files is that we can be more creative and experimental.