Ok, I want to convert my MIDI piano track with the session drumer track into an mp3 file.

I'm not familiar with MCP24, but in general, you would Export the Entire Mix to a wav. file, then convert that to an MP3 with a file conversion program. You may already have one on your computer, but if not several are available for download.

I have it playing through my keyboard. I tried exporting it, but the buttons in the scroll of export and greyed out.

headed down toward the goalie....

Ok, there's a couple of things you can do. you can either hook up audio cables from your keyboard to your sound card input and then:
insert an AUDIO track
set the input to the sound card input that you just plugged the keyboard into
arm it
hit record on the transport

this will play the midi thru the keyboard and record the audio from the keyboard onto the audio track.

OR:
you can learn to insert a DXi Synth. what the heck, I'm goin' for the goal...I'll be generous tonight and walk you thru it...I usually just point people to the help files....

INSERT>DXI SYNTH>EDIROL VSC
CHOOSE: one output, uncheck properties page and synth rack view (don't need them right now)
click OK
a new AUDIO track will appear with the name EDIROL on it
go to your MIDI source track and choose an instrument in the PATCH that you want to hear
HIGHLIGHT BOTH THE MIDI SOURCE TRACK AND THE EDIROL AUDIO TRACK
go to: FILE>EXPORT>AUDIO
change your settings to 16bit, 44.1kHz
save as a WAV file

now you've got a wave file, but you wanted an MP3, you have to find some other software to convert it to an MP3. there's a lot of free stuff out there on the net that will do that for you. http://tinyurl.com/yalhf8
download and install that program, open it, browse to the wave file you just created, set the MP3 parameters and file name and it will create the mp3 from the wave file for you.

if you get lost anywhere, just ask questions or search the help file, then ask questios....





and GOAL!!!!

well, yes, that's what I was describing with using the DXi Synth, unless you meant converting the SD from being a plugin to being MIDI data on a MIDI SOURCE TRACK....in which case I misunderstood you and skipped that part of the directions....

(.......it seems according to the playback that Beagle actually MISSED the GOAL and will have to take the puck back to half court....wait....Beagle has DECKED the REF!!!! Unbelievable...now he's heading for the coach of the other team....OH MY GOSH!!! I've never seen such violence in a hockey game!.......)

Ok, to convert the info from SD into a MIDI track, you select the MIDI track you've plugged SD into, then select PROCESS>MIDI EFFECTS. it will ask you if you want to delete...yes you do....if you screw up and want it back, it has saved your last settings unless you've exited.

(Beagle is carried off the ice by two guards and 4 teammates, kicking and screaming....something about being ROBBED...we'll continue this news flash at a later time....stay tuned....)

OK. While the medic attends to Beagle, lets back up a bit. The MIDI ONLY template just gives you MIDI tracks to work with. If you are using MIDI only, with no audio tracks, this is just for convenience. It wouldn't necessarilly affect the output.
Do you have the output of the MIDI piano track set to the Edirol VSC? Can you hear that through your speakers, not the keyboard?