This is an excerpt from a full length DVD available at www.ProAudioDVDs.com.

Host David Wills has toured with major artists such as Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, Chicago and Diana Ross and provides you with a professional's perspective but always demonstrated in an informal, easy to understand way.

Here's a complete listing of the subjects that are covered...

(Understanding MIDI)
01:00 Introduction
02:30 What is MIDI?
04:30 Connections
07:10 Components of a MIDI Keyboard
09:10 Conecting up a MIDI Studio
11:50 MIDI Channels
14:50 Sequencing
33:15 Types of MIDI Information
34:00 ...Note On
37:45 ...Pitch Bend
38:35 ...Channel Pressure
39:45 ...Continuous Controllers
41:15 ...Program Change
41:55 ...Channel Message Review
44:15 System Messages
44:45 Synchronization
49:30 MIDI info examples
51:50 Review

(Understanding Samplers and Sampling)
01:40 Introduction
02:20 What is a Sampler?
03:50 Resolution/Sampling Rates
10:05 Recording your first Sample
10:40 Setting up
12:55 Multisampling
14:30 Looping
16:50 Techniques to conserve memory
16:55 Truncating
18:00 Changing the sample rate
18:45 Velocity Cross Fading/Switching
20:35 Patch/Program Editing Examples
22:50 Storage
24:10 Inside Your Sampler
25:15 Editing using Filters/Amps
27:15 Destructive Edits
27:30 Normalization
27:45 Splicing
28:00 Sample Rate Convert
28:20 Time Stretching
28:40 Recording Phrases
29:35 Looping a Phrase
31:15 Syncing Loop Tempos
33:50 Production Applications
39:50 Graduation