Bouncing MIDI?

[XMark]

I'm using an SB Live card, and I've been trying to figure out how to bounce my MIDI tracks into audio. No matter what I do, I just get silence. What do I have to do?

[XMark]

Okay, I figured it out. You have to go into your mixer settings and change the input to MIDI, and then make your Aux input track, but now I have a different problem. Sometimes the sound will hiccup like crazy when I'm playing. Actually, this happens whenever I do anything with audio in Pro Tools Free. I have 384 MB of RAM so it shouldn't be a memory problem. What could it be?

[Pulque]

I used PTFree with a Sound Blaster Live for a while. The "hiccuping" could be caused by your sample rate. It's buried in a readme I think, I can't remember where I found it, but Digidesign recommends when using Sound Blaster cards to always use 48k sample rate instead of 44.1. This completely fixed my hiccuping problems. Incidentally, I found when using 44.1 a quick fix for the hiccuping would be a CTRL-ALT-DEL, then just escape out of the Close Program dialog. It would eventually come back, but it works for a short while. Hope this helps.

[Naptalene]

Are you triggering an external soundmodule or softsynth?
If its softsynth, pipe it through a bus and record it onto another audio channel.
If its external, then you have to reroute it into the audio in of the card and record that onto an audio channel(Using a mixer).

[mspt]

Hi,

I have this exact proble as am trying to bounce the whole music with guitar, bass, drums as midi track to disk, but can't hear the drums sound in the bounced to wave file!?

I'd highly appreciate it that you could explain in steps how have you accomplidhed this task!

Thanx.

Cheers

[Andrew_k]

Ive found the best way to bounce midi to audio using a soundblaster card is to go into your mixer settings in windows. From memory, Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Multimedia -> volume control.
In the volume control set your record settings to 'record what you hear (im pretty sure thats what its called or something similar) & thats it. Make a new audio track, mute all the other audio tracks and only have the midi tracks playing, click record enable on the new audio track and hit record and away you go. I think you need to make sure your recording settings in the volume control windows are set before starting protools.
Hope this works for you