Where are MIDI files?

Brett - audio and MIDI are two completely different things, that's why the tracks are completely different in MC3. Midi tracks have DATA in them from your keyboard - not sounds. Audio tracks are for recording AUDIO only, so if you don't have any audio devices (guitar, microphone, or keyboard...but see below) connected to your mic or line input of your sound card, then you won't record any audio.

note: the keyboard can be connected to record either MIDI OR AUDIO. to record MIDI, you connect the MIDI outputs to your computer (various ways to do that, but you have already accomplished this, so I won't go into it again). To record AUDIO from your keyboard, you must connect your AUDIO OUTPUT (usually the headphone output) from your keyboard to the MIC OR LINE input of your sound card. You then set up an AUDIO track to receive input from that mic or line input of your sound card, arm the track and play your keyboard.

I strongly suggest you work thru the tutorials included with the software. they are very helpful.

I'm connecting through the Mic also since I don't have a Line-In.

I have disconnected the MIDI in part of the cable. This seems to have made all the difference in sound quality. Do you know why that is?

Thanks,
Brett

Thanks. I followed your suggestion and don't hear the really bad digitized sound anymore.

I'm using the Mic for my audio input and know that won't give me the best quality. I'd like to do what ever I can to improve the quality. The one place that things sound bad is when something is play loudly and fast. For example, a key is struck hard. In the Audio part, this seems to max out the audio and you get a tsshhhhh. Like a speaker getting to the point of blowing. I have the Mic volume turned down very low. Is there any thing I can do in the software to level out these extreme highs so it handles them better?

Thanks,
Brett