21 MIDI Setup Video Lecture | Tracktion 5 Tutorial: Master Music Editing - Video & Sound Editing

in this video we're going to get started
with MIDI recording and MIDI editing and
to do that we're gonna use an external
MIDI controller now I'm using a little
cime X key keyboard which works really
nice it's a USB keyboard like a lot of
MIDI controllers on the market today
now before you use it you might need to
go to the manufacturers website download
the drivers and install them now once
you've done that it's very easy to
configure a MIDI keyboard and traction
just go to the Settings tab and then go
to the MIDI devices page and then you
should see all MIDI inputs and outputs
that are set up on your keyboard you can
see that I've got four of them here the
interface that I'm using for voiceover
also includes hardware MIDI in and out
didn't connectors I'm not going to use
those right now I'm going to use the X
key itself so if you don't see your
devices here either make sure the
drivers are installed if they're not or
you can hit refresh down here this blue
link when you click that it will then
scan for any connected MIDI devices then
to enable the inputs and the outputs you
can see this says output in this list
for MIDI devices just click enable and
then for input we can click this as well
that opens up a lot of properties down
here in the bottom but we're really not
worried about that right now now let's
go back to a project I've created a
brand new product called MIDI recording
and editing you can see it's got a
couple audio tracks enabled but we're
really not going to use audio track so
on track two I'll just click this and
turn it to no input so we can turn that
off then on track one I'll click here
and set it to X key this is the input
name for that controller now if I play
some notes you'll actually see the
events are coming in it's giving me a
warning because I've got nothing no
sound but sound is coming in now the
other really important thing with this
is when we click on the input down here
in the properties section we want to
make sure that enable into end just
turned on that means that the MIDI will
come in and then the sound will come out
once we link it up to an instrument and
that's the next thing we're going to do
so I'll click here to open the browser
and then there's a plugins tab and this
shows effects
logins as well as synth or virtual
instrument plugins and you can see that
there's a category for synth if you type
in a few letters of the word synth you
can see it filters out and shows you all
the different since I'm gonna grab I
think I'll grab element for this and
whatever instrument you put in you drop
it over here in the mixer section you
could drop it anywhere but if you drop
it ahead of this volume control then it
gives you a volume control for your
output from that sent now let's try to
play and immediately we get sound
through and that's really what we need
to do in the next video we're gonna
start actually recording it works much
like audio recording at this point but
this is the basic way that you get a
track set up now there is no difference
between a MIDI track and an audio track
in traction you just configure how you
want to record and what you want to use
for your sound generating engine and
then the track becomes a MIDI track and
anything I record with this input will
generate a MIDI clip so that's it for
now thanks for watching
I'll see you in the next video