MBN uses MIDI to accompany your practice sessions and to help you produce new music

Build a progression with MBN and send synchronised single notes, arpeggios or harmonies to your DAW and/or virtual instruments

Learn with MBN how to turn this into a full backing band

You can also use MBN to send simple or complex chord shapes as a ’live’ MIDI input controller

Don’t yet know how to play a C# Diminished Triad? Let MBN show you how

Not sure what it should sound like? Hear it with MBN

The possibilities are endless

‘DAW’ usually refers to Digital Audio Workstation software that we can install on a computer to produce our own music

Most DAWs feature audio and MIDI recording or import

Processing and adding effects

Arranging and Layering

Mixing and Mastering

There is a whole chapter of content in Music By Numbers devoted to Recording Audio with your computer

In 1996 Steinberg released the Virtual Studio Technology (VST) interface specification

Now there are thousands of plugins available for us to integrate into our DAW

Some plugins are free and others are commercial

Audio is generated using digital signal processing (DSP)

Developers write software to emulate, or simulate, expensive and rare musical equipment as well as generate completely new sounds that would otherwise be impossible !

There is a whole chapter of content in Music By Numbers devoted to Recording Audio with your computer

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

A Windows driver such as https://www.nerds.de/en/loopbe1.html allows you to link the output of Music By Numbers to your DAW and Virtual Instruments

Your recorded sequences can then come alive by triggering strumming guitars, funky bass, synthesisers, drums etc

For inspiration see: https://www.amplesound.net/en/index.asp