How do you arrange ? MIDI or AUDIO ? Both ?

Kilevox · Post by **Kilevox** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:21 pm

Hi guys,

I have a little question.

Do you convert every MIDI pattern in an AUDIO file?

Or do you arrange all as MIDI patterns, so that you have more possibilities while arranging ??

Do some of you generelly arrange all in MIDI ?

What do you think is the pro and contra of arranging in MIDI or AUDIO???

Thanks

Greetz

Kilevox

Kleig · Post by **Kleig** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:23 pm

I basically compose everything in midi, because I can make changes to the midi patterns and copy them and manipulate them way more freely than I could do on audio formats and if I made my every loop a Mp3 or so it might lose some sound quality in the process.

I can't say too much about audio, because I've never composed with every loop being an Wav/Ogg/Aiff or so.

Though when I'm ready and make the ready song into a Wav/Mp3 I do run it through Audacity and take some volume level down if needed and fine tune it in Wav/Mp3 before re-encoding the ready product.

Anyways I'm not an expert in these things, but it does the job at least for me.

Kilevox · Post by **Kilevox** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:37 pm

so, you arrange all in MIDI, and when it fits, you convert each MIDI clip to AUDIO files or just the whole arrangement to AUDIO (render,mixdown) ?

Kleig · Post by **Kleig** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:54 pm

Kilevox wrote:so, you arrange all in MIDI, and when it fits, you convert each MIDI clip to AUDIO files or just the whole arrangement to AUDIO (render,mixdown) ?

I basically convert the whole arrangement into audio when it's ready and then fine tune it in Audacity if needed.

plaster · Post by **plaster** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:26 am

all midi, takes too much ram to stream long audio files + midi is kind of cleaner in my opinion.

Rochey · Post by **Rochey** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:52 am

generally midi

however programs like battery slow my pc down so I sometimes render them & use the audio file

Kilevox · Post by **Kilevox** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:34 pm

all in MIDI ?

VST's and EFX are the horror for the CPU!

@ plaster

when you have a lot of VST's and EFX, this takes a lot of RAM, too !
Or not ??

532nm · Post by **532nm** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:07 pm

i use a combo of external midi, samples and vst's for drums and perc and samples for most everything else. the way you can manipulate a sample is more powerfull than midi, imo

i think most producers have their 'secret' vst's and fx that make up their own unique sound. i've found some very simple but powerful vst's that i always use now because i know them inside and out.