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The Computer and MIDI, a great match.

Because MIDI data is compact in size its easy for a computer to manipulate it.  You can easily have 50 tracks of midi instruments running in a song if you have enough ports and channels.  In the sequencer, midi tracks can be copied, looped, transposed, doubled, stretched and edited to fine detail.  You hit a wrong note?  No problem, edit it to the proper value. You have a great idea but your timing is off?  No problem.  Simply apply a quantize template and your notes will lock to a grid or a groove.  You don’t have to be a good keyboard player to make excellent sounding compositions.  Simply correct the tracks till they sing for you.  In the sequencer, every element of the MIDI stream can be modified.  You can call up a track and edit it on a musical stave like the “old” composers used to or on hi-tech grids, or in a list of events.

Sound Development and MIDI :

OK, all you homeboys who think that MIDI is “old” and not as cool as hot audio loops and beats take note:  Most commercial loops are built with MIDI data controlling digital samplers.  The true and authentic tweakhead and groovemaster either uses MIDI to make their loops or has such impeccable timing they just record it cold.  Of course you could buy and use store-bought loops, but you’d be restricted to using other people’s sounds and stuff.  Get a sampler, makes some noises, edit to perfection with MIDI, grooving, quantizing, transposing and you are 100% originally you! Record the output and edit the sample and you just made your own audio loop. That’s how the true tweaks do it.

Also consider sound effects for film, TV commercials, radio spots.  With MIDI you can stack of sounds, samples, and instruments to make huge effects.  Using MIDI is one method for those who make sounds and music for a living.