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Playing audio/midi tracks live

I hope this is the right forum, if not maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm only researching at this point so I can't tell you what gear I use, because I don't have it yet. But, what I'm hoping to do is record a combination of MIDI and Audio tracks on a computer to be used as backing tracks for live performance. (I perform solo and in a duo).

Logic Express 8 - realtime MIDI quantize?

So yea, not the best keyboardist in the world here -- can Logic Express 8 do on-the-fly quantization when I'm recording in regions? The clean-up work after a take is a bit tedious, though I must admit that it's got me thinking about all of the soul and flavor that a region-wide quantization strips out of a take.

Humidity and caring for condenser microphones

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I have two MXL condensers mics that I've been using quite a bit recently. I have been leaving them out and set up for my convenience.

As we are getting into the summer (Philadelphia, PA), I was curious whether the added humidity they will be exposed to would be detrimental to the mics (we have no AC in the house).

Acid Pro is burning CD's without the Midi! Help!

I use Acid Pro 4.0 and have been making some excellent beats. I use a few loops from CD, a few vocals with my microphone, and the rest I play on my Yamaha keyboard through midi. Inside of acid, everything sounds great, plays great. However, when I finally burn the project onto CD, it retains everything except the midi. I've tried reading the manual but that's some complicated stuff.