And your point is? Record Indiv. or a MIX.

[epu]

Many of you have suggested that you record MIDI tracks onto their own audio tracks, one by one, so you have more control over each individual tracks. I've done just that in my recent mixes. While I take care of levels and panning at the MIDI stage (usually in the keyboard or drum machine itself), I must admit that I can get hotter levels into the Digi 001 since a whole 16 track mix isn't competing for the audio outs of my keyboard.

My question is, does it really matter whether you record your MIDI mix as one stereo track or on individual tracks? My objective is to just add vocals, and edit them to fit my already mixed (pans, levels, effects) MIDI compositions (on a Roland XP60).

If you were in my situation, what would you do? How would you do it?

[where02190]

If you record all your audio from midi sources at all( since there's really no need, simply run them into aud inputs) then it is certainly beneficial to record eas separately, giving you mix options. Otherwise the mix you do is the mix you're stuck with.

However, I never record audio from midi devices, I run them directly to mix, either through aux inputs in Protools, or via an outboard console that Protools is also routed to. This give sthe ultimate in felxability during mixdown.

[epu]

What if you're not using an external board. You'd have to bounce to two tracks. Wouldn't you need to record the MIDI as audio to be able to bounce it down? I'm saying this as if you have no mixdown medium but the CD Burner that came with your PC.