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New to Creating Audio / Used to creating MIDI

30 March, 2008 - 21:46 — JasonP27

Hi all, I am used to creating original MIDI music with Cakewalk Pro Audio 9, and pretty new to audio based programs like FL. I've tried FL, but I was wondering if there's a better program to take the MIDI files I have and mix them up using audio samples etc.

I used to write the .mid and then record it as MP3 in Soundforge. Another problem I have is the limits of my computer. It is as follows:

AMD Athlon 800MHz CPU
448MB SDRAM
40GB HDD
Windows XP Pro w/ SP2

So is there a program you can recommend that will do what I need? For example, take the saxophone part in one of my midi files and tell the program to use an instrument based on audio instead of midi.

Thanks!

‹ Best wishes from Saint-Petersburg, Russia Adam Zwakk (invited here by Sole :) ) ›

31 March, 2008 - 13:40 — matt
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Hi Jason, if you've still got Cakewalk Pro Audio 9, and your midi projects within it, you should be able to load a VST instrument into the project, and assign it to your various midi tracks? I presume if you haven't been using VST instruments at all, and composing in straight midi, you will have been using the default basic midi instruments that come with your soundcard driver or windows?

I'd imagine that Cakewalk Pro Audio supports loading VST instruments, so you could load for example a lovely rich sound piano VST instrument, or whatever you want (every possible instrument and sound under the sun is available as a VST instrument), and assign your previous saxophone midi track to play that rich piano instead?

Is that what you're wanting to do?

31 March, 2008 - 22:56 — stu1066
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hi jason ,you can convert midi to audio and also run audio alongside midi tracks import audio to play with midi if thats what you mean? using cubase sx enables me to do these kind of things if that helps. rgds stu1066

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