{"id":3735,"date":"2024-10-17T11:40:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2024-11-05T09:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:04:52","slug":"using-multitrack-studio-with-an-external-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/2024\/10\/17\/using-multitrack-studio-with-an-external-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Multitrack Studio with an External Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To use Multitrack studio with an external MIDI keyboard you need to perform the following steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Turn on Multitrack Studio\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Either regular or Lite editions. the Lite version will work, too.  You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.multitrackstudio.com\/download.php\">download<\/a> it from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.multitrackstudio.com\/download.php\">company website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add the on-screen piano\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click on the little piano icon on the bottom right of the screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add a MIDI track.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select \"Add Track\" from the upper right hand corner, between \"Song\" and \"Mix Down\"<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make sure that MTSi appears to the right of the second dial on the Track 1 line.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on the MTSi icon.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select on Instrument\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the \"MTSi\" (MultiTrack Studio Instruments) pop-up window, choose an instrument like Accordion and make sure that it's on Channel 1 (Ch 1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Play a note\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Either click on the on-screen piano, or<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Play a note on the external MIDI device.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/444\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-17-at-11.28.14\u202fAM-1024x730.png\" alt=\"Six steps to getting Multitrack Studio to play sounds using the internal piano-like controller or using an external MIDI device.\" class=\"wp-image-3736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/444\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-17-at-11.28.14\u202fAM-1024x730.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/444\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-17-at-11.28.14\u202fAM-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/444\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-17-at-11.28.14\u202fAM.png 1377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Six steps to getting Multitrack Studio to play sounds using the internal piano-like controller or using an external MIDI device.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/444\/2021\/12\/noun-signature-1720818-2.png\" alt=\"a pen\" class=\"wp-image-2116\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>James Andrew Smith is a Professional Engineer and Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eecs.lassonde.yorku.ca\">Department<\/a>\u00a0of York University\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lassonde.yorku.ca\">Lassonde School<\/a>, with degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering\u00a0from the University of Alberta and McGill University.\u00a0\u00a0Previously a program director in biomedical engineering, his research background spans robotics, locomotion, human birth, music and\u00a0engineering\u00a0education. While on sabbatical in 2018-19 with his wife and kids he lived in Strasbourg, France and\u00a0he\u00a0taught at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insa-strasbourg.fr\/en\/\">INSA Strasbourg<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hs-karlsruhe.de\">Hochschule Karlsruhe<\/a>\u00a0and wrote about his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=(%23sabbaticallife)%20(from%3Aonnimikki)&amp;src=typed_query\">personal<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=insa%20(from%3Ajasmith_yorku)&amp;src=typed_query\">professional\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=karlsruhe%20(from%3Ajasmith_yorku)&amp;src=typed_query\">perspectives<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0James is a proponent of using social media to advocate for justice, equity, diversity and inclusion as well as evidence-based applications of research\u00a0in the public sphere.\u00a0You can find him on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasmith_yorku\">Twitter<\/a>. Originally from Qu\u00e9bec City, he now lives in Toronto, Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To use Multitrack studio with an external MIDI keyboard you need to perform the following steps. James Andrew Smith is a Professional Engineer and Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\u00a0Department\u00a0of York University\u2019s\u00a0Lassonde School, with degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering\u00a0from the University of Alberta and McGill University.\u00a0\u00a0Previously a program director in biomedical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[801],"tags":[79,796,793,795,794],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-audio","tag-daw","tag-midi","tag-multitrack-studio","tag-synthesizer"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":801,"label":"music"}],"post_tag":[{"value":79,"label":"audio"},{"value":796,"label":"DAW"},{"value":793,"label":"MIDI"},{"value":795,"label":"Multitrack Studio"},{"value":794,"label":"synthesizer"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"drsmith","author_link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/author\/drsmith\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":801,"name":"music","slug":"music","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":801,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":801,"category_count":1,"category_description":"","cat_name":"music","category_nicename":"music","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":79,"name":"audio","slug":"audio","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":79,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":796,"name":"DAW","slug":"daw","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":796,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":793,"name":"MIDI","slug":"midi","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":793,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":795,"name":"Multitrack Studio","slug":"multitrack-studio","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":795,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":794,"name":"synthesizer","slug":"synthesizer","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":794,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3737,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions\/3737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/drsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}