mysterious soundswhen recording from midi to audio

[malgovert]

when I record midi tracks to audio - more with drums I think than anything else - it always comes out with this sort of swirly background sound to it - as though it's flanged or something - I carry on anyway but... any ideas anybody what could be causing this? Thanks - Malgo.

 

[regebro]

Flanging sounds will appear if you have a small modulated delay between two copies of the same signal. For example, if you record the sound from your midi equipment, and then play back the recorded sound at the same time as you again play back the midi-signal, a flanging sound would be natural.

So look into that. It sounds like you somehow have doubled the signal.

 

[sonusman]

I could see that happening if you were monitoring the input of the card too. You would have your software playing to the audio outputs, and you would be monitoring it at the input, thus, sending it again to the output. Yes, with delay.

Good luck.

Ed

 

[AlChuck]

malgovert,

Are you using an SB Live, by any chance? If so, look at the recording sources in the Windows mixer and see if "What U Hear" is checked (seems that Prince did their user interface design). If it is, uncheck it and just enable the MIDI synth.

-AlChuck

 

[malgovert]

Would you expect to have some little delay between the original midi-generated sound and the recorded sound then? Actually I think some little thing is amiss anyway - find I have to record my midi tracks in 'sections' of thirty measures each - if I record the whole track in one go, then play both together (original midi and recorded audio) the two are way out of sync by the end - the recorded one always falls behind bit by bit - and I end up therefore with an audio track that is out of time with the rest of the song. I reckon this might have something to do with the mysterious sound, don't you?

AlChuck - I am using SBLive (Plat) - but it is set to Midi in the windows mixer.

Thanks - Malg.