RhythmRmixd
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Hey Everyone,
Ever since I upgraded to Digital Performer 4.5 from DP3, I've found MIDI a little easier to use. I still have questions about making the best choices for recording and mixing MIDI. To start, I've familiarized myself with most of the MIDI edit and region menu operations as far as processing MIDI sounds, for those of you who are familiar with how DP operates. My general process is to set my MIDI faders at full volume (on a 0 to 127 scale), keep pan at dead center, add continuous controller information (sometimes with pan info) and velocity changes to balance the mix somewhat during MIDI mixing, and then record my MIDI tracks (one at a time) from my modules outputs directly into my 828mkII inputs for further processsing as audio soundbites (where panning, fader level changes, and DSP processing are done). I'm recording each MIDI track to its own audio track, most of the time.
When I monitor my audio levels (the level the MIDI is being recorded at going into audio) I'm seeing levels usually around -12db, and not much stronger than that. Does this sound like a good range going into an audio soundbite? This is with my modules volume knobs turned all the way up, my 828mkII inputs at 0db, and my 828mkII mix bus at 0db. I'm reading green on the inputs meters on the 828mkII and not yellow at all, but I think close to it. I'm also wondering how much gain should be applied to each AUDIO track, so that I'm getting a good signal level but still allowing some headroom for the mastering stage. Is there a general area I should be shooting for as far as db levels during the audio mixdown stage, just before I'm bouncing to a stereo master track for mastering?
Ever since I upgraded to Digital Performer 4.5 from DP3, I've found MIDI a little easier to use. I still have questions about making the best choices for recording and mixing MIDI. To start, I've familiarized myself with most of the MIDI edit and region menu operations as far as processing MIDI sounds, for those of you who are familiar with how DP operates. My general process is to set my MIDI faders at full volume (on a 0 to 127 scale), keep pan at dead center, add continuous controller information (sometimes with pan info) and velocity changes to balance the mix somewhat during MIDI mixing, and then record my MIDI tracks (one at a time) from my modules outputs directly into my 828mkII inputs for further processsing as audio soundbites (where panning, fader level changes, and DSP processing are done). I'm recording each MIDI track to its own audio track, most of the time.
When I monitor my audio levels (the level the MIDI is being recorded at going into audio) I'm seeing levels usually around -12db, and not much stronger than that. Does this sound like a good range going into an audio soundbite? This is with my modules volume knobs turned all the way up, my 828mkII inputs at 0db, and my 828mkII mix bus at 0db. I'm reading green on the inputs meters on the 828mkII and not yellow at all, but I think close to it. I'm also wondering how much gain should be applied to each AUDIO track, so that I'm getting a good signal level but still allowing some headroom for the mastering stage. Is there a general area I should be shooting for as far as db levels during the audio mixdown stage, just before I'm bouncing to a stereo master track for mastering?
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