recording audio + Midi

PipelineAudio wrote on 6/21/2003, 1:46 PM

I got a session coming up where I need to record audio from a drumset along with the midi outs of some of his electronic pieces of the drumkit, along with the audio out of the electronic pieces

whats a safe SANE and sensible way to do this?

I figure I will split his trigger outs so that MAYBE I can feed them back into his " brain" later, but who knows?

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MJhig wrote on 6/21/2003, 3:48 PM

If it were me I would treat the audio outs of the sound modules as just as you do the mics on the kit, each to it's own channel either external mixer or soundcard's.

If he doesn't have separate outs for each voice on each module and only has stereo outs, hopefully he is skilled at setting the relative volume between voices and that's done already.

To record the MIDI data along with the audio you will need to synch the sequencer with Vegas so they both start at the same time, one master and one slave of course. I'm familiar with CW/Sonar but most sequencers should have the ability to separate notes to tracks as CW/Sonar does so you can arm one track and record all the MIDI data then split the voices to separate tracks after the fact.

This is not as difficult as it appears at first glance, I've done it live for years and in the studio. The key here will be whether he has set up the voice's velocity correctly if the sound modules only have stereo outs. If he has not it's easy to fix in the MIDI data and in fact have thought after reading your struggles with current drummers if triggering each drum (on the sly if need be) with $2 R.S. piezo transducers to a MIDI module such as a Roland SPD-20 and recording the MIDI data to manipulate later wouldn't be a WHOLE lot easier allowing you to correct timing, velocity and the voice with ease.

MJ