Guys,
Sorry for the lousy description there... Here's what I do:
Let's assume I have three MIDI parts and I want to get them to be three audio tracks.
I'll start with the first. I mute all other tracks but the MIDI track I want to record, and I enable another track for recording. I set its source to be one of the audio sources of the SB Live.
I then open the Windows mixer and open the Properties dialog from the Options menu. In the middle section labeled "Adjust volume for," I select Recording. In the bottom list labeled "Show the following volume controls," I select "What You Hear" if it's not already enabled.
I minimize the Mixer (might need to tweak the levels) and set Cakewalk recording.
When done, I have a new audio track. I listen to make sure the levels are OK, and assuming they are, go on to the next track of interest and repeat the procedure.
This method (track by track) gives me a 1-to-1 audio track for each MIDI track. . The advantage is I can still toy with the tracks individually, if I decide I really don't like their relative levels or pan positions after all, or if I want a little more slapback or reverb or something. But pretty tedious if there are a pile of MIDI tracks. Since I'm usually not doing this conversion until the end, I'll submix the MIDI parts until I'm happy and record them to a pair of tracks. (I always save the original MIDI tracks in the project file anyway, so I can always work from the original individual parts).
Note that this method is actually using the SB Live to record the audio. I guess this means I'm stuck with 48 kHz, 18-bit recording, but the MIDI tracks are in the digital realm and routed through the SB Live's internal mixer, so that's OK. I mean, they wouldn't sound any better if I routed them out the analog ioutputs and back intop the Delta. I guess if I wanted to record other tracks at 24 bit/96 kHz with the Delta I'd have to export my audiofied MIDI files, dither them into the higher bit rate and sampling rate format, and pull them back in. I haven't tried this yet so I don't know how well it'll work (I've only had this system up and running properly for a few days now -- I had lots of computer upgrade nightmares and IRQ shenanigans for a while there).
I hope that makes better sense. Somehow I had it in my head that the SB's MIDI sounds could be recorded into the Delta's audio channel within Cakewalk. Sorry for the confusion I might have caused.
-AlChuck
[This message has been edited by AlChuck (edited 06-28-2000).]