Midi to Audio=NOISY

[jonez]

In PA9 I routed 6 midi tracks to 2 audio tracks. The audio tracks sounded crackly and not at all what I expected. I realize I probably recorded them too hot, and that anything over 0db is not tolerable in the digital domain, but my question is this... what should my expectations be regarding the quality of the audio tracks recorded from midi tracks? Should they be the exact replicas, digitally reproduced? Or is this the same thing you get in analog recording where each generation shows deterioration? I'm using Pro Audio 9 on a PII-300 with SB Live card.

 

[AlChuck]

Yeah, I think you're on the right track about the levels.

The quality of the audio tracks made from the MIDI tracks of the SB Live are a bit noisy but acceptable to me for now (someday I'll get a nice MIDI sample player box with an S/PDIF output...).

Once they are digitized, they can be copied around without further deterioration, but of course re-recording them will introduce some loss if you convert to analog and then back to digital again. Nothing like the loss on generations of tape, though...

-AlChuck