The sum of all these channels with lingering mono info converges on the center and makes your mix sound narrow. That’s why too many stereo tracks can cause a mix to collapse. In fact, it’s unlikely that any stereo tracks will be 100% different between the left and right channels. Most stereo tracks include a mix of mono and stereo information. If the sounds are different in level, timbre or timing between the left and right channels, you’ll hear them in position within the stereo track. If a sound has the same intensity in both the left and right channels, you’ll hear it panned dead center in the stereo field. The same can be said for aux return channels from your ambience effects like delay and reverb.Īll these stereo source types include some information that’s the same between channels and some that’s different. These stereo sources help establish a sense of realism and dimension in your mix. Therefore you would have to record the MIDI tracks separately from the audio track (or introduce additional analog steps such as pushing both the Ableton audio tracks and the synth tracks through an external mixer.Our powerful, AI-driven mastering engine listens to your song and delivers pristine, studio-quality music that’s ready for release. That won’t happen if you record into Audacity because, just as Ableton cannot “see” the synth directly, neither can Audacity. The significant advantage in the first method, is that, apart from a little latency delay, which should be easy to correct, the audio recorded into Ableton should be perfectly synchronised with the other audio tracks.

Everything else is just copying digital data (numbers) across. MIDI → PCM audio → Audacity digital audio track → Export from Audacity.Īlthough the second appears to be shorter, there is still just one A/D conversion step. Now look at the way that you want to do it: That is the step where you have potential for loss of sound quality. Note that there is just one A/D conversion step.

MIDI → PCM audio → Ableton digital audio track → WAV file output → Import into Audacity → Export from Audacity. Well yes, but, if you do that (the right way) in Ableton, it goes: So, the other option to dump the midi-files into an audio track, but then you have to render twice to obtain the end result.

Tracks daw