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In this section I explain what hardware is necessary and important for the MIDI & Virtual Instrument-based composer.

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In this section I help you wade through all the levels of software: operating system, drivers, DAW, plugins, and virtual instruments.

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In this section you will learn the basics of using a DAW, of creating templates, and how to control Virtual Instruments with MIDI.

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I have a few different MIDI files here for your personal study. Most of these are examples at some point in this course.

Ben

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This is complete audio from the course that was released in 2019. I have no idea why anyone would want this, but at the time I created it anyway. It is missing the recent Ben updates from 2022.

Feeling cute, might delete this audio later.

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