Audio Level meter matching

Papoola

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Dear Experts, I am trying to learn the home studio skills and found your
help extremely helpful.
I am actually homerecording my synthetizer into the PC.
The signal flow is the following:
Synth - outboard A/D-D/A converter MindPrint - Toslink - RME digital
audiocard .
Recording software is SONAR XL.
As a starting point I record MIDI tracks of my synth via a USB MIDI unit ;
at this stage
I recorded 4 midi tracks (one by one) and so far not having matched their
levels as they are simply MIDI. The idea is to properly adjust the audio
level any moment later on in the process.

Now, having dried up the polyphony capacity of the synth and more important
the 4 indipendent MIDI channel of the synth (A/B/C/D), I decided to start
transferring a couple of the midi tracks as audio files inside SONAR to free
some MIDI capability.

First question: is this common practice or what would you do right now?


Following the AD/DA converter instructions and to have the best A/D
conversion in term of bits I adjusted the converter input knob just a step
before its clipping level (a red led)
Doing so the input level of SONAR (with Sonar channel level at 0) goes
totally above the meter clipping level.

What is the common practice in this situation ??

Shall I maintain the A/D converter right (just slightly before clipping) and
reducing Sonar track level (below the Zero level) or shall I reduce the A/D
input level to keep the Sonar track meter at 0 ??

I guess that the first solution is better as I would have the best bit
conversion isn't ??
I also guess if SONAR leveling is accurate enough or if shall be
tested/tuned in some way.

Tks so much and in case need more details I will come back . I just tried to
keep it short !
 
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