{"id":149741,"date":"2025-07-30T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=149741"},"modified":"2025-08-05T08:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:20:01","slug":"how-to-play-youtube-videos-as-a-midi-controlled-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/07\/30\/how-to-play-youtube-videos-as-a-midi-controlled-sampler\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Play Youtube Videos As A MIDI-Controlled Sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Every YouTube Video is a Musical Instrument\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BUMl9JXphp0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@william.jacobs\">William Jacobs<\/a> shared this video, demonstrating how you can play Youtube videos as a MIDI-controlled sampler.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs demonstrates how you can use Youtube as a MIDI-controlled sampler. You could use the same approach to use Youtube as a MIDI-controlled VJ tool. He even demonstrates how to type comments using MIDI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every single video on Youtube can be MIDI sequenced and turned into music,&#8221; he notes. &#8220;All you need is a keyboard\/synth, some shortcuts, and your imagination&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He took inspiration from this video, <strong>Interactive YouTube Drum Machine<\/strong>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interactive YouTube drum machine\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3yRx-dd7Jcs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Check out the video and share your thoughts on this in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how you can play Youtube videos as a MIDI-controlled sampler.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/07\/30\/how-to-play-youtube-videos-as-a-midi-controlled-sampler\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Play Youtube Videos As A MIDI-Controlled Sampler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,35],"tags":[466,550,273,30624,1280],"class_list":["post-149741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-synthesizers-samplers","category-vj","tag-midi","tag-sampler","tag-sampling","tag-vj","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/how-to-play-youtube-videos-as-a-sampler.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149772,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149741\/revisions\/149772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}