Coverting MIDI drums to Audio

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Hi all,

Could someone enlighten me on how to conver the MIDI drum sounds to regular audio (preferably when I am mixing down) in Cubase VST/32 5 on a PC with Soundblaster Live card.

I don't have a seperate machine to mix to so if you can do this on a single machine it would be cool. :D

Cheers,

Jono
 
Depends....are you using a virtual audio instrument program or using the soundfonts onboard the soundblaster.
 
You can mute all but one track at a time (snare for example). Take the line out of the snare to an armed track and record it as audio. Repeat one track at a time with the other parts of the kit.
If your midi drums are already on a single track (as in type 0 midi files), you will need to use a midi editor to separate the parts to different tracks first (as type 1 midi).
 
I have created the drum pattern using the MIDI drum editor within cubase, but then I use a VST instrument (the Cubase LM-4 I think it is, drum machine).

I would preferably like to simply take the full kit sound and mix it down with the rest of the audio.

Any clues?

Jono
 
Surely the Cubase manual tells you how to do this? I would think VST instruments (since they are already being played through the WAV device on the SB and not through the on-board synth) can be bounced to an audio track with great ease. Did you check the Steinberg website?
 
Ahhhh - the VST instruments are WAV sounds...I havent tried a normal mixdown with a VST instrument.

I will check out the Steinberg site also. Thanks for all your help folks, I will report back if I am successfull!!

Jono
 
Like chuck said. A bounce to disc is the way to do it for VST's. Look for a bounce button within the track mixer.
 
The battery vsti is a great drum sample player using midi as its source.
 
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