Since the invention of MIDI, many optimists have issued promising statements regarding the use of computers for
the creation and arrangement of music. However, most of these statements have never come
to fruition. In fact, the most
sophisticated product ever created that employs MIDI technology is a sort of MIDI recorder, able to record one or several musicians' actions and play them back later. Editing these pre-recorded MIDI events is
far more a technical process than a creative one. It is extremely difficult
(if possible at all) to "breathe life" into a MIDI part entered into a computer as a score.
All the actions intuitively performed on the fly by a musician must be manually entered and edited in any MIDI application.
This is done by changing each note's parameters using terms and techniques that
are rather far removed from music itself, such as velocity, note length in bits and ticks, various MIDI
controllers, and so on. Additionally, many musical styles have not yet become popular among
composers who work with MIDI, largely because the main instrument parts (like rhythm
guitars) are extremely difficult to create in MIDI applications. Try for a moment to
remember all the musical styles you can perform without the use of rhythm
guitars. How many styles have you recalled?
Some musicians may try to use a guitar-to-MIDI controller to create guitar
parts in MIDI, but they may soon find that this is even more difficult to learn
and play than
to simply learn actual guitar techniques. However, the overwhelming majority
of musicians that use MIDI instruments are keyboardists, and this is
the main reason why almost all synthesizers have piano keyboards rather than
guitar necks. But it's not as bad as it seems to be. Help has arrived.
MusicLab, Inc. presents Rhythm
'n' Chords technology, making the creation of rhythm guitar parts
as easy as creating a hi-hat part in a drum track.
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