Recording Audio While Listening To MIDI Tracks

[sseaton]

All right... I seem to have MIDI under control. So now on to digital audio. This is my first post in this forum, so bear with me.

I was able to record audio through my iBook's internal microphone while listening to my MIDI tracks. (I know this isn't a great set-up, but I was just testing things. I will eventually get some sort of USB or FireWire interface.) Anyway... I noticed that if I brought down the fader on my audio track, it lowered the volume of all my MIDI tracks. It didn't actually make the faders slide down. It acted more like a submix for my MIDI tracks. Obviously I am either doing something drastically wrong, or maybe using the internal iBook mic messes things up. Please advise. My goal is to record MIDI tracks for accompaniment and then record a couple vocal tracks and maybe a guitar or sax track, etc. Thanks.

[Jerm]

Sean,

It is hard to know with the limited information you have supplied what is wrong but I suspect either you may have your Instruments set up incorrectly or you are changing the volume of the master fader.

Or...

If you are using soundfonts on an aux bus or track then the output of the MIDI track is being sent to an audio instrument. Perhaps you should change the output (from the effects window) so that MIDI goes to a different audio channel (fader) than your audio track!