Music Tutorials

These are video tutorials that I created back in 2005 when I used a PC with ACID Pro for music composition. They show numerous tips and techniques for dealing with MIDI, and looping, and fixing tempo drift, etc.

Bome Mouse Keyboard

3 minute read

Sometimes you just don’t have a hardware MIDI keyboard handy (like when traveling) but you need to compose something with ACID that needs MIDI keyboard input...

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Extract MIDI Tracks in ACID

3 minute read

As you may know, one track in ACID can contain multiple MIDI tracks. Each MIDI track can control a separate MIDI instrument on its own MIDI channel. Because ...

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Fixing Tempo Drift with Sound Forge

6 minute read

Sometimes you want to use a live recording in ACID but the Beatmapper can’t be used effectively because the tempo drifts several times throughout the song. I...

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Using Tempo Mapping to Fix Tempo Drift

3 minute read

What do you do when you want to add ACID loops to a live song? The problem with live music is that is usually not performed to a “click-track” and the tempo ...

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Virtual MIDI Router Installation

3 minute read

The Virtual MIDI Router from Sony acts like a virtual MIDI cable. It allows you to route MIDI inputs and outputs as if you had real hardware MIDI ports with ...

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