MIDI to audio?

[mrx]

Just wondering how people are handling their MIDI data with n-Track. In other words, do you keep your sequences as MIDI right through mixdown, or do you record your MIDI modules to audio tracks and work entirely with digital audio during mix and mastering?

I have been partial (with Cakewalk) to let MIDI and audio live side by side, preserving the ability to make MIDI changes at any point in the process. Now, looking at the n-Track eval, it just seems to make more sense to get the MIDI converted to audio as soon as the arrangement is stable and just work that way. Looks like it would eliminate a whole nasty source of sync issues, as well.

In hindsight, many advantages of keeping the MIDI data intact are no longer valid, since once the first audio piece is recorded, all hope of changing key and tempo "on the fly" is gone.

[Slackmaster2K]

Well, you can always bounce the MIDI track to an audio track and then import the audio track and mute the MIDI track. Thus freeing up some performance without it being too hard to make changes (e.g. just remove the audio file and unmute the MIDI track).

Slackmaster 2000