souncards?

[rlimon]

I have a KORG N1 hooked up to a mackie 1202 mixer which is hooked up to my computer. I use cakewalk's SONAR. when i record midi, everything is great. When i record audio, i get a hissing in the back of recording. I tried plugging my keyboard directly into my soundcard, and i still get hissing sound when i record it as audio. i try to set levels properly, but i can't get rid of hissing. Is it my soundcard? I have windows XP, 256 megs of ram. I think i have a CONEXANT RIPTIDE soundcard that came with computer. what is the top soundcard i can get, within reason of price. i want to rid my hissing.

please help me, i'm new to this.

thanks

p.s. in order to put my midi tracks on a cd, do i have to record them over again into audio files in SONAR? is there a special function that translates midi files into audio files in SONAR?

 

[man@work]

Hi rlimon,

Make sure the output of your mackie is going to the
line in of your sound card. (Not the mic in) Make sure the windows mixer's line input is not turned up too far.....you will
have to experiment with this setting.

In order to record midi as digital you will have to run
the output of your keyboard into your mackie and
through the soundcard while playing back the midi tracks
you want to record. In Sonar mute all tracks
except for the midi tracks you want to record as
digital. Arm a digital track and press record.

Hope this helps!
Mike