Midi to Audio

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Can someone please tell me how to convert a track from MIDI to audio? This is driving me crazy.

Thanks.
 
You need to run a patch cable from your soundcard's line out to it's line in. Then arm an audio track for recording and record the midi.
 
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Hey Dacha............just another newbie, but......isn't there a way to do it within cake? Or is this one of those "tips and tricks" ?

Still going through the tutorials and butchering tracks, but I LOVE IT!!!!!
Haven't even gotten into midi yet, still trying to nail down the audio/cake/gear/soundcard so that I can perform the same function, the same way every time. Getting there though!!
 
I decided to check the FAQ's on the Cakewalk web site, and yes it can be done within the software. You just arm an empty stereo track, and select the right source. You mute all the tracks that you don't want recorded to audio, and Shazaam...you've got it.
 
I could be wrong, but...

I think you will find out that you have to patch the output of your soundcard back into an input.

Bottom line, it is done within Cakewalk - but you still need to physically connect the soundcard's ports.

When you try to select the source for an audio track, the only choices will be your soundcard's input connections. If you don't have something feeding them, all you will record is silence.

Anyone else have another way to do it?
 
You don't have to physically patch a cable from the output to the input; if you go into your soundcards mixer window (double-click the speaker icon at the bottom right of the screen) and choose "options-properties" then adjust volume for "recording", and there should be something there like stereo/mono mixer input, record what you hear, or something to that effect which will record what is being played on the MIDI tracks to a separate Audio track.

Hope that helps

-tkr
 
Yeah, all you have to do is SOLO the tracks you want to be converted to WAV.

Then RECORD or MIXDOWN to an empty track.

;)

spin
 
The last posts are right. Unless you are using an external sound module.
 
I stand corrected...

as Tekker said, if you select "what u hear" as your source in Windows mixer, you can record midi without using a patch cord.
 
If you use "What U Hear," be aware that it will also re-record existing audio tracks if you don't mute them. I also wonder if, even if they are muted or nothing's playing in them, the other devices patched in are maybe adding a touch extra noise. I think it's better to disable What U Hear and just enable MIDI in the Recording options window...
 
Sorry AlChuck , but it won't work because midi signals don't have any sounds by itself. Maybe it can work by enabling wave recording instead of What you hear.
 
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That MIDI selection in the Windows mixer is not to enable recording MIDI messages as audio, (what good would that do? why would they even give you the option?), it's to enable recording from the output of the onboard MIDI devices. For example, with the SB Live, it allows recording Synth A's and/or B's output into the audio stream.

-AlChuck
 
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