Need Help on MC3

Tell us a bit more about how you recorded the midi over to audio, and maybe we can help you.

As far as the encoder, i suggest a 3rd party MP3 encoder,like a lame or something.

my midi track outputs are set to cakewalk music connector 1.

i have created an audio track in the trackview in MC, clicked the record button and played the song (Midi tracks)
through my keyboard.

All the midi tracks seem to record onto the one audio track ok, but when i playback through the PC soundcard the sound

quality is bad, if/when i figure out how to export it to an mp3, will the sound of the MP3 also be poor?

i have 8 midi tracks that i have recorded onto one audio track that i can export.
i assumed (possibly incorrectly) that that was the way to export a song, to have all the
midi tracks converted to 1 audio track first.

perhaps i should clarify exactly what i am trying to do.
I have composed a song in the track view on MC that comprises 8 Midi tracks.
i want to listen to the song on an MP3 player, my interpretation of the mc manual is that i have to
record the midi tracks onto 1 audio track first, before converting to MP3.

the input (and output) of the audio track is set to "soundmax digital audio" i have to admit i'm confused
as to whether that is my keyboard or PC soundcard, or what it is.
i have audio cables running from my 2 keyboard outputs to the pink mic input of my pc,
thats the only way i could get it to work.

Definitely the right direction, Greg.
Timedeane,
For your soundcard connections, is there a blue one? If there are icons stamped into the computer next to the connections, you should see a circle with an arrow pointing into the center. This is your line in.
Plug the audio out from your keyboard into that, and make the change in the Windows mixer that Greg mentioned.
In the mixer, you need to click Options, and select line in as the recording source.
That may not be the only problem, but it's probably part of it.

first of all, I would not try to record all of the midi down to ONE audio track, you can (and probably should) record them to EIGHT tracks since you have 8 midi source tracks. Of course, it will take longer recording each track separately, but then you can have tighter control over each track as you mix into the final output.

these guys are steering you straight, but I would offer an alternative solution. you can do what you want this way especially the way that Greg and Robert are telling you, but consider using softsynths instead.

the sounds from your keyboard are going to be much better than the softsynths that come with MC, BUT your sound card is the limitation here and might be the cause of you not being able to record good sounds. YOu might get decent sounds that way if you are able to follow Robert's advice and plug into the LINE input (blue) instead of the MIC input. the mic input is likely what's causing most of your bad sound.

but if you want an alternative until you can get a better sound card, then try following tutorial #8 in the help files. it deals with telling you how to insert and use a DXi Synth. that way, you don't have to use the keyboard audio output plugged into the sound card at all. just insert the softsynth and select your GM channel, bank and patch to the sounds you want, then you can learn to BOUNCE to TRACK, which I believe is at the end of tutorial #4.

i want to thank you guys for all your help yesterday, thanks to you i have good sound now, and have figured out the cwenc MP3 encoder as well.
as i said i'm new to this, until recently the only bus i was familiar with......well you know....was a big metal thing with a wheel in each corner.
Anyway, maybe someone can help me with another problem, before i start mixing i obviously have to convert any MIDI tracks to audio,
then what? do i then convert all the audio tracks to a single audio track before exporting to MP3? i'm a little confused with the Master and bus controls in the
mixing pane.