Working with MIDI

ACID 3.0 is not a MIDI editing or creation tool. Still, ACID deftly handles MIDI files—going beyond simply allowing you to include MIDI in your project— by matching the tempo and beat of the MIDI file to the project. Unlike audio files, tempo, beat, and measures are an inherent part of the MIDI file, making this a straightforward task. 

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Files are the most basic unit a typical computer user works with. Files could be text documents (. txt), pictures (. bmp), or songs (. mp3). Media files (see Figure 2.1) are just files that contain audio, video, digital music, or pictures. In the context of ACID, media files that can be used are video, audio, or MIDI in nature. Audio files are paramount, however (see Figure 2.1). Some typical file formats for audio that can be used in ACID are. wav or. mp3. 

The most important issue in sound card qualify as it relates to MIDI is synthesis of the data into sound. Up until this point, the quality of your sound card has not mattered very much when working with ACID. Beyond a certain basic level, all sound cards play back and output audio files with fairly high fidelity. Of course, there may be important differences in the quality of the card itself, such as whether it outputs analog or digital signals and how electronically quiet it is, but essentially all cards play back media files the same way. Even consumer-level hardware outputs very high-quality sound. MIDI is a different story. 

ACID as the master device triggering and syncing Cakewalk Pro Audio with MIDI Clock. SONAR works the same way, although the application has a different look. 

The Synthesis ToolKit in C++ (STK) is a set of audio signal processing and synthesis C++ classes and algorithms. Yon can use these classes to create programs that make sounds tvith a variety of synthesis techniques. This is not a terribly novel concept, except that the Synthesis Toolkit is extremely portable (it s mostly platform-independent C and C++ code), and it is completely user-extensible (no libraries, no hidden drivers, aU source code is included). This means that the code yon write today (and the code we ve written over the last 10 years) win stiU work in another 10 years. It cunently runs tvith real-time snpport (audio and MIDI) on SGI (Mx), Linux, Windows, and Mac (OSX) computer platforms. Non-real-time support has been tested nnder NeXTStep, SunOS, and other platforms, and should work for soundfile creation with any standard C++ compiler. 

ACID can act as a MIDI device in a studio setup, both outputting MIDI Time Code (MTC) to other devices and accepting MIDI triggers from other devices and applications. The purpose of this is to synchronize ACID with your MIDI setup by allowing other devices to start ACID playback or to start and synchronize other devices from within ACID when you start playback of a project. The MIDI device or software application needs to be able to send and/or receive MTC, so simple dummy keyboards will not work. More complex synthesizers with sequencers, however, often have this capability. In professional MIDI studios, there is often a small box that is dedicated to generating timecode and synchronization and sometimes called a controller or a sync unit. 

MIDI Clock is also a better choice for MIDI exclnsive applications, snch as MIDI editors and sequencers. MIDI Timecode, on the other hand, is more broadly targeted and can be used with everything from tape machines to video prodnction equipment. In the end, the right choice is the one that works. 

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