Use of Midi instrument and software instrument. Edit Midi notes

1. Add a software instrument and record MIDI and
quantize in your DAW. Including preparing the
track(s), adding the instrument, setting the click and
count off, and recording efficiently.
My name is Sebastian La Rocca, I`m from Buenos Aires
Argentina. I`m a musician composer and I`m going to show you
how I record MIDI, and set all we need to do that.
This lesson is for week 2 of Introduction To Music Production at
Coursera.org
My DAW is Live 9 by Ableton.
Assuming that we already set our project in the
Options/Preference window.
 WAV archive
 24 bit word Length
 Count 1 bar
 48.000 sample rate
 Buffer size 512 samples

3. Now, let`s start to set our tempo project by clicking in TAP and
choose a tempo in for example 110.
Important things to set:
-Name the track
-Turn on the click

4. Session view
We have two kind of view in Live:
 Session (vertical view)
 Arrangement (horizontal view)
I work in Arrangement view. We already have by default two
Midi Tracks and two Audio tracks in this view as well as the
auxiliary tracks (reverb and Delay) and the Master.
We see in the left side, the plug in folder where we are going to
select a Korg piano (Virtual Instrument Synthesizer). But before
that, we need to arm the Midi track 1. By default be are in 4/4
near the click button.

5. Now, I`ll perform four chords in a couple of bars.
Let see the screen and the piano roll whit the Midi notes.

6. The first part of my editing is the Quantization of the midi data. I
have to set the grid. The metric values of the notes I perform are
close to sixteen note value. So to make the sound tighter than
the original I have to pull it to that grid line (black circle).
There are some notes a bit sloppy and I wanted more accurate,
more in time on the bar. So, Quantizes is move something to a
determinate grid. I can manipulate every midi note just moving
the mouse over it. To do that I need to use the zoom to figure
out how close to the beat I was in the performance. We have
Horizontal and Vertical Zoom in the piano roll editor. We can
scroll up and down in the piano roll as well. We can grab the end
or the beginning of a note, to edge edit there. Or move back and
forth the entire note grabbing in the middle. We can move the
notes vertically and horizontally and change the pitch and listen
through the midi monitor. For example, I can change the octave
of a chord selecting the group and move over the piano roll.
Now I select a group of notes to quantize. Adjust the
quantization in 1/16, to the start of the beat, and 100% of
amount at the quantization strength.

7. Done
Every single note (represented as a rectangle) has a velocity
value associated, located at the underneath. We can change the
velocities amount of every note clicking the vertical lines
associated individually. We can also select a group or entire clip
and adjust the velocities at the same time.

8. It is very common to do overdubs in the same midi clip. Just
clicking OVR in the DAW, and we can add a melody to the
chords already record.
I hope you enjoy this lesson as I did doing it. This kind of
tools are very efficient to fix mistakes or for those people
who search more accurate and perfect final jobs.
Thanks for read.