I can ask this best by saying what I think I already understand. The hookup I'm attempting now has controller-to-soundcard-to-Cakewalk to-sampler-to-audioamp-to-sound. The PC has commands that eventially become sounds via the sampler. this was all so a decade ago when I tried MIDI. Now I'm trying to understand had disc recording. It seems that there is A/D-conversion-processing-D/A for audio tracks--but where do the MIDI tracks go. Does one take the audio out from a sampler to A/D conversion etc. ? I'm trying to get a grasp of what equipment I'll need to record both MIDI tracks and audio tracks with editing functions. Any discusions alon this line would greatly interest me(and probably others).

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Bob Haymond