cubase to cool edit = worse sound?

[dobro]

Greetings, carbon-based lifeforms...

This here's a proxy question. Ignore the unusual sequence of events (let's say for moment that moving from midi to something else, you mix then record), and focus for a moment on the problem of sound degradation moving from midi to cubase to cool edit. Shed your light, shed your light, shed your light on me.


I mix my midi and audio tracks in cubase, and then record them with cool edit (which
makes a wave file). I know I can record the midi tracks in cubase and transform them
into audio files, but when I do that I lose sound quality. I'm probably screwing up
somewhere along the line, but that's how I use cool edit.

[This message has been edited by dobro (edited 03-02-2000).]

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[drstawl]

Sounds like this question belongs in the Cubase Forum, but when I had troubles doing the same thing in Cakewalk, I also used Cool Edit to convert MIDI to .wav files. I played the MIDI file with CW and recorded the .wav file with CoolEdit96. It worked great. I basically replaced CoolEdit96 with Vegas Pro and have been very happy with it.

[dobro]

...and no loss of sound quality. Hmm. Well if you did it then it's doable, so this guy's problem is not simply in what he's trying to do, but lies somewhere else. I thought it might be something particular to working with midi.