Is Midi and Adobe compatable?

[capnkid]

At Musicians friend there are reviews of Adobe. I like the fact everyone says it's the easiest to use. But one review has me worried. The guy says that Adobe is great unless you want to do midi tracks. What does he mean?

 

[ErichS]

At Musicians friend there are reviews of Adobe. I like the fact everyone says it's the easiest to use. But one review has me worried. The guy says that Adobe is great unless you want to do midi tracks. What does he mean?

I'm not exactly sure what he meant but Adobe is not a midi sequencer like, say Sonar. It can playback midi files but you cant record or edit midi notes/events.

 

[erosconpollo]

Audition/Cool Edit was designed as a sound recording/editing program, not a midi sequencer. It will import midi tracks but not create them.

Ah, someone typed faster than me...

 

[danny.guitar]

Yup, as the other 2 said it is NOT a MIDI DAW.

However, it does support ReWire. If you have Reason you can record tracks directly from Reason straight into Adobe without having to record, then import the recorded tracks into Audition.

This is the main reason I switched to Reaper. I was also kinda pissed at myself for throwing away $$ on Adobe when I could have spent $40 for a program just as capable as the extremely expensive software (Sonar, Cubase, etc). I'd give it a shot!

There's a lot of praise for Reaper around here and for good reason.

 

[sikter]

At Musicians friend there are reviews of Adobe. I like the fact everyone says it's the easiest to use. But one review has me worried. The guy says that Adobe is great unless you want to do midi tracks. What does he mean?

Do you use midi a lot or just for some tracks?

I am Audition user. I record and mix audio tracks mostly but sometimes I need one or two none guitar tracks.
Let’s say I need to do one Hammond track using midis.
I use Cubase just for recording and editing. When it’s done I export it as WAV and import it to my A. Audition Multitrack session.

But if you are going to work with midi mostly, then AA is not proper tool for you.

 

[capnkid]

I would just be using midi for BFD (drum software) and a keyboard. Would this be a problem.

 

[thajeremy]

could you also use Rewire and get Fruity Loops to work with AA???

 

[TimOBrien]

Reaper (www.reaper.fm) is FREE to use until you get guilty enough to pay the measely $40 shareware fee.

Works perfectly well with all the VST midi synths and midi files I've thrown at it.

Trying it out costs nada....