Newbie can't bounce Midi & Audio together?

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Hi...

Am expermenting with Cakewalk, recording voice and Midi input from a digital piano. (the piano Midi playback sound quality sux and I haven't figured out how to change the sound quality but that's another problem)

Right now, I can't seem to save the Midi AND voice track to a single WAV file...

Something I read somewhere said this isn't possible... I'm going nuts with this, no clue what to do next- anyone?

My setup:
- karaoke mic plugged direct to a laptop input jack. Levels are decent, with Windows XP mic boost set to on, and although input isn't perfectly clean, static is tolerable.
 
Unless you are using a DXi or VSTi as your midi synth, the midi has to be converted to audio before you can export to wave.

IOW, you will need to record the digital piano. If it has audio out connections, you can "send" the midi to the piano and "return" the audio into your sound card and record it.
 
Welcome to the board... :)

Some questions before we go:

Which Cakewalk are you talking about?

Did you record MIDI data or audio data of your digital piano? How do you route MIDI / audio from digital piano to Cakewalk?

Clue: You don't save MIDI and audio into wav file. You'll mix them in mixing stage later (after you record 'em). If you use DXi, mixing MIDI and audio to wav file is done from menu File --> Export. If you use external MIDI tone generator, you need to record the audio from it first into Sonar on audio track, then mix them with the rest audio tracks.

BTW if you use Sonar / Homestudio, don't worry about how suck your digital piano sounds. You can replace the sound using DXi. Just record the MIDI data from digital piano into MIDI track in Sonar, then assign DXi as it's tone generator.

;)
Jaymz
 
Wow, thanks guys! It's good to get replies :)

James Argo said:
Which Cakewalk are you talking about?
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Home Studio... not on that computer at the moment so I can't get the version number tho.

James Argo said:
Did you record MIDI data or audio data of your digital piano? How do you route MIDI / audio from digital piano to Cakewalk?
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MIDI. I have a MIDI to USB connector, and my digital piano has all 3 MIDI jacks, In, Out, Thru.

James Argo said:
Clue: You don't save MIDI and audio into wav file. You'll mix them in mixing stage later (after you record 'em). If you use DXi, mixing MIDI and audio to wav file is done from menu File --> Export. If you use external MIDI tone generator, you need to record the audio from it first into Sonar on audio track, then mix them with the rest audio tracks.
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Wow, that's really important to know! No wonder it didn't work. I will try it this weekend :) But I don't have a mixer panel... looks like I'll have to find out about Sonar & DXi

James Argo said:
BTW if you use Sonar / Homestudio, don't worry about how suck your digital piano sounds. You can replace the sound using DXi. Just record the MIDI data from digital piano into MIDI track in Sonar, then assign DXi as it's tone generator.
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Thanks for the tips! You guys rock! ... will let you know if it worked out, next week.
 
Thank You!

Woot! Thanks to your pointers, I ran search for help on DXi and got the right tutorial at last! ...(previous queries to the help database drew blanks)

Can't believe the answer's been there all along and I didn't know where to find it. I was even nearly going to try borrowing a mixer or something!

Thanks a bunch. *hugs!*
 
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