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By denis4320 Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:18 am
Im have a midi keyboard hooked up to the mpc and the mpc hooked up to a pc to control some softsynths. How can i record audio from both sources together into one track? do i need a mixer to do that or is there another way?
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By BB SOUND Sun Nov 02, 2003 10:11 pm
ive been trying to find this out too.....
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By PLATINUM1 Sun Nov 02, 2003 10:39 pm
There are many ways to do this depending on the equipment you have. A mixer would help , if your computer had multiple outputs . I would probably bounce all the soft synths together on the computer and then record the mpc into your computer in the same program that the softsynths are in , make sure they are synched up. Then bounce the two together to a single stereo track. I am sure others might have different ways but this is how i would do it . Good Luck.

By cashstill Sun Nov 02, 2003 11:03 pm
i do this all time using a mixer with the computer, mp, midi keyboards
my methods are different then what Platinum described but the mixer is the key element to make things happen

By denis4320 Wed Nov 05, 2003 3:22 am
thanks for the help.
i didnt think of platinums solution. i have multiple outputs on my pc but what i did is recording a finished beat to my pc using sound forge. then i added softsynths and effects using acid 4.0. i dont need all the functions of cubase as all i want to do is add a lead and other sounds not possible on the mpc. also, i can make adjustments to the songtempo easily and can also rearrange some parts from the mpc track if i want to make some changes. but the latter is normally not necessary as it was done already on the mpc.
finally i can just render the miditrack of the softsynths and the audio from my mpc together into one single track.