Midi to Audio

[Simon Baker]

I'm trying to send some midi tracks to audio to apply some fx. Can this be done soley within cubase or do I have to access my soundcard control panel also?

[TREBLE]

Hello. In reply to your question,the answer is yes. you can transfer midi signals to audio.all you do is set your record parameters like you would a normal track.Then you let the midi sequence play while it is recording in audio.its that simple.good luck

[tcmusic]

Hmmm....it doesn't work for me. I can record audio fine but not record the MIDI file in the open arrange windo to the Audio track in the same arrange window.....SB AWE 64 card....not the greatest but it should work.


Terry

[Simon Baker]

All I got was a message saying it 'was too short to use??'
It recorded a blank sequence. Any ideas??
Cheers :-)

[TREBLE]

hmmmm....intresting, how long was the recorded stuff? i have done that a couple of times. i use a darla 24 audio card maybe that is a factor. but it can be done...

[Simon Baker]

About 30 seconds or so. Yeah I'm sure it can be done. I've tried using the APSLive Control panel to route the signal but no joy yet. Ideas?

[TREBLE]

do you use the same card to intergrate midi as you do audio? maybe that is why ....i have two independant ways of getting sound in and out the comp

[Simon Baker]

Both my Midi and Audio i/o is through SBLive card.

[tcmusic]

It's not the card. It works perfectlt with Cakewalk but not Cubase.

Terry

[TREBLE]

trust me ...it works in cubase also....unless i made it work by accident ..and im not THAT good at the program. it has something to do with your interface set up... not the program... cakewalk can do it also but i would use cubasis before i used pro audio 9 personally ... it is not worth running to the store and spending $300 to find the same problem. this is definately an interfaceing issue. u need to use an external midi interface to do it...once audio and midi are coming from two different sources.it will play the midi track from one source and record the audio from the other.

[tcmusic]

No, I have both programs installed 'cause I teach Cubase and Cakewalk....this is what is so EMBARRASSING. I can't get
Cubase to record the MIDI onto an Audio track.
I have went thru all the settings in Cubase and the Audio Card...hundreds of times. Of course it would work with two
cards....but it works with just one card with Cakewalk.
BTW, I'm not a CW fan. I've been using Cubase since it's Atari Days and was called Pro 24!!
Any suggestions would be grately appreciated.


Terry

[TREBLE]

OOOOOhhhh...ouch.....ok well i guess im cheating ..sort of...but im not using two cards...im using one audio card and a usb midi interface but i think that is the only way it can work that i know of.

[Simon Baker]

The other alternative is to rerecord through an external mixer. D - A, A - D.

[TREBLE]

i never thought about that....that is actually the best way in terms of sound quailty. good call. but hey is it just me or would cubase be the undisputed king of all sequencers if it had multitrack capablities? i kjow it is off the subject but i had to let my feelings known.

[Simon Baker]

There must be a way to do it completely internally though. Quality will be compromised if the signal is converted to analog then back to digital.

[TREBLE]

no actually that depends on a how good your converters are but i think that you are right there should be a way to do it completly internally

[thor]

it can be done internally, go to the soundcard mixer and set it to record from all sources, this will depend on the soundcard of course. for example it can be done on the sblive by selecting the what u hear setting. hope this helps. thor.

[Simon Baker]

Thanks Thor, that did the job, although if you want to record only midi to audio select midi to record on the SBLive panel. I guess the 'what u hear' option would be good for mixing down complete sequences of midi and audio. Cheers.

[Dimmi]

I have used the "What U Hear" device to mixdown my tracks, but I have recently discovered that the sound quality I get this way is slightly lower than the one I get by mixing audio tracks directly with Cakewalk's mixdown function. I am guessing this is due to SBLive's internal resampling of every channel into 48.1 Khz.

So far I haven't found a way to successfully mixdown both midi and audio any other way than "What U Hear," which sux because that way sound is distorted.

I tried recording MIDI tracks into audio tracks and mixing down with Cakewalk's mixdown function, but the audio tracks I get from midi always drift out of sync. And then it sounds so screwed up, especially on drums, that it is not even funnny.
Dimmi