i need to mixdown my song which has some guitar tracks and one midi drum track.
when i export it only th guitars come out through media player.
this is because midi is just a signal right- no actual waveforms produced until something triggers it.
in my case, inside Cubase i use "microsoft gs wavetable" or something like that to sound the midi- and it works fine.
but of course outside of Cubase it doesnt play.
so how do i convert my midi into audio?
i have already tried getting a line out from my soundcard into my recording usb device- but the quality is extremely poor and not useable.
i have also tried the poor mans way of holding a mic to my speakers while the drums are playing- but that also sounds like crap!
so how can this be done~?#
thanks.
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Copied from cubase.com(what an odd place to look). A la Frederik
Copied from cubase.com(what an odd place to look). A la Frederik:
Step 1: search your soundcard.
If you're lucky you have a speaker icon below (running applications) you can enter the soundcard control panel that way, otherwise you'll have to dive deeper, through start, counfiguration, sound and audio (can be named differenatly, i'm translating from a flemish computer).
Step 2: change setting to loop back the output to cubase.
The settings that heve to be changed are the recording settings. It can take some "browsing" in your soundcard control panel to find this. Try entering options and/or the advanced and/or properties settings, most time it's there.
When in the recording section of your soundcard, you'll normally see some faders with selection buttons below. The one you should select for your loopback operation can have different names: quite common are "what you hear", or "stereo mixer", sometimes "midi".
If it isn't one of these you should work through elimination: it' not line, not mic, not cd-player...
Once you've selected the right one, you should look if there is no general volume in this recording section, with a mute all selection button. If there isn make sure it isn't muted.Step 3: back to cubase, and record this looped back audio.
As this title says, go back to cubase (to the project with your midi files). There you make a new audio track. You set the track ready for record, and than press the record button on the transport bar.
Now you're recording your midi chanels as audio in cubase (via some outside soundcard operation as i explained).Once you've done this, you can handle this new audio track as any other audio track: you can add effects etc.
Most important, however, is that you can do an audio mixdown on it!!! So this at first somewhat complicated "route-back and record as audio"-procedure allows you to include midi played by your soundcard on a cd...yes!!!!
This procedure can vary a bit: you can always record the midi tracks seperately (by making a new audio track for each, to assign individual effects, make a better mix....).
Important: after you've done the loop back operation I suggest you change the settings of your soundcard again, to avoid that the next time you want to record something else (line, mic... etc) you won't be surprised because you hear nothing, or some howling feedback....
I don't exactly know how this works when using your internal sou
I don't exactly know how this works when using your internal sound card for the MIDI sounds but If the internal sounds are being routed through Cubase, it should work just fine.
In Cubase, you've obviously got audio tracks for the guitar. Do you have an audio channel that the drums are playing back through on Cubase? In otherwords, when you look at the mixer in Cubase, is there a channel being used for the audio data being played by by the MIDI channel? If so, try exporting just that track and re-importing into the project. That should give you an audio track for the drums. Then try the mixdown, but disable the MIDI track first.
How are you exporting? Are you exporting the stereo output?