MIDI use with a shitty sound card???

[pisces7378]

Hey guys,
Yeah I thought I had it all figured out, and lo and behold, if I didn't come to realize once again that.... I don't know SHIT!!! This question might seem so basic to you all but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere.

Does the sound card you have affect MIDI recording too, or only audio?

See, and please bare with me, I now own E-magic, Audio Logic Platinum (finally). Now I am a beginner at computer based recording so I will be woodshedding it for about the next century. Now, I had hoped to eventually outfit my project studio with:

E-magic Audio Logic Platinum
Midisport 2x2 Interface
Roland JV 1010 Sound Module
Evolution Midi-key-controller
Delta-66 24/96 Sound Card
w/ Delta Omni I/O pre-amps, mixer, breakout box

Now I own the software, and the Midi interface, but some friends from the US came to visit me here in Munich over the last week, and in true idiotic fashion, I spent more money than I anticipated during their trip. I dipped deep enough into my savings for this project, to make it impossible at the moment to afford the sound card/breakout-box set up.
Now I am aware that this software program will take me 10 years to learn so I have the time to save a bit more money for the card. But I was just wondering, in the mean time....

Since I will be working "MIDI-only" in the beginning, does it matter that I will be using the shitty sound card that my computer came with? I know that the sampling rate and bit resolution are key during AUDIO recording, but since MIDI is only Midi-information rather than the more than the complicated "ones and zeros" of audio, does the sound card affect it at all?

And if I record something using this shitty sound card, when I get the Delta-66, will I have to go back and re-do everything with the new card or will, since it's just MIDI information, not make a damn difference?

I will be posting this same post in the MIDI forum as well, I appologize for that. So if you run across it just disregard it.

Thanks in advance guys,
Mike

 

[AlChuck]

pisces7378,

If the - ahem - "shitty" soundcard already in your computer has a MIDI interface, and it works, then you should be fine. Like you say, it's only transferring data around, and MIDI data originates in digital form and is not something that the "shitty" card has to convert from analog audio or back to analog audio anywhere along the way.

And yes, as far as MIDI sequences, the presence or absence of the Delta 66 won't make a bit of difference to the MIDI sequences. If you played them via MIDI to the Roland module before, and you play them to the Roland module after, they will sound identical.

-AlChuck

 

[DS_Sultan]

Heck, missing the Delta66 won't make 24 bits of difference....hehehehe