The secret you are missing for all the problems you are having is right-click menus, from what I can see.

Right click a track name area and select Type to change to an audio track if you want to record audio. Or go into Options- Preferences- Audio and put a check in the box "always record audio too when recording to a track that is MIDI" and RB will ask if you want to keep the audio, and if so will put it on the next available track. Right-clicking the track and changing the type is a good habit, using the other way the tracks may end up disorganized...

Converting MIDI to audio - right click the track display (data) area and 'autoconvert midi track to ... " whatever you want, track or wav file. Right-click and look at all the options readily available. Right-clicking on the waveform of an audio track will present lots of different options too.

For file format conversion, RB uses an app that uses the codecs that are loaded in your system (Windows) If you didn't have an mp3 codec that could do the conversion, well .. mp3 is patented for another year, so they can't include one for you without a fee, and since most of us have one already ...

Anyway, I hope that helps. Stop in here and ask questions when you get stuck; there's always someone around that probably has the answer. Usually pretty quickly!

It IS different than most other DAWs, but once you see what it can do, it just might surprise you. To me the flow is intuitive, but if you learned on another DAW I can see how it wouldn't be.

Last edited by rharv; 04/08/11 03:12 PM.
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