CHAPTER 9
MIDI and the DAW
Apart from electronic musical instruments, one of the most important music production tools that can be found in the modern-day project studio is the MIDI sequencer. Basically, a sequencer is a digital device or software application that’s used to record, edit and output MIDI messages in a sequential fashion. These messages are generally arranged in a track-based format that follows the modern production concept of having instruments (and/or instrument voices) located on separate tracks. This visually interactive tool makes it easy for us humans to view MIDI data as tracks on a digital audio workstation (DAW) that follow along a straightforward linear time line.
These tracks (Figure 9.1) contain MIDI-related performance ...
