So next time you open your DAW, skip the vintage compressor plugin. Load up the General MIDI sound set. Crank the tempo to 112. And let the ones and zeros get funky.
It is the sound of a robot who has studied James Brown for 10,000 years. It has no soul, technically, but it has so much structure that your body doesn't know the difference. funk goes on midi
These producers can’t record a live horn section. They can’t mic a guitar amp. But they can write a bassline on a Game Boy. So next time you open your DAW, skip
Here is why you should feed your clavinet through a 5-pin DIN cable. In live funk, the drummer rushes the fills and drags the snare backbeats. It breathes. And let the ones and zeros get funky
In a world of infinite analog warmth (spend $5k on a Moog or use the free plugin?), the thin, bright, digital "MIDI Grand" sound cuts through a mix like a laser. It doesn’t compete with a live drummer’s cymbals. It sits on top of the beat.
MIDI allows you to manipulate this with surgical precision. You can take a simple C7 chord, set the velocity to 127 (max) for the attack, and immediately drop to 20 for the release.
MIDI, on the other hand, is digital perfection. It is the sterile 1s and 0s. It’s the sound of a sequencer playing exactly on the grid at 120 BPM with zero velocity variation.