MIDI in ACID

As mentioned, the quality of the MIDI output from ACID does not depend on ACID but on your sound card. Configuring ACID to use the correct MIDI device can he a complicated task. Since wavetable synthesis is often the highest-quality synthesis on a sound card, getting ACID to output wavetable samples properly is important. Unfortunately, wavetable synthesizers often use some of the same circuitry that the sound card needs to play back regular media files, and this can cause conflict. This section is going to discuss how to configure ACID MIDI tracks to get the highest quality and talks about some workarounds for a few potential problems. 

Select a subset of devices in AQD to make available for playback and MIDI Qock generation. 

MIDI tracks must be routed through the Master bus in order to be rendered with the project. All other devices are external to ACID. 

The number of the external MIDI device is displayed on the Track Header. 

Rendering projects with MIDI tracks is exactly the same as rendering any other project and is discussed in detail in Chapter 12. Just to repeat If you render a project and find that the MIDI track is silent, but the track previews when you play back the project, the problem is that you are not using the Master device for the MIDI tracks. 

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Especially useful in improving the quality of MIDI in ACID are Equalization plug-ins. Any of these can be used to bring out the specific voices you want to emphasize, although keep in mind that you can also do this by increasing the volume of individual voices in the Track Properties dialog box. Boosting the bass bequencies a little can often add richness to MIDI tracks. 

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