Cubase SX - MIDI track routing

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Cubase SX - MIDI track routing

Post by dubman » Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:07 am

Hello guys, <BR>maybe you could help me out. <BR>Using Cubase SX and a multi-out soundcard, how do i route a MIDI track of the project to, say out#2/3 of my soundcard? Is it any possible without converting MIDi data into audio? <BR>thanks, <BR>Max

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Post by Neil C » Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:52 am

Go into vst connections in the devices menu. <BR>Add a bus. <BR>Click on the related device port and you will get a choice of what device port you want to use for that bus. <BR>Now in the project window the audio tracks out menus should show you a choice of all the busses &#40;which will be using the ports you have set for them&#41; you have set up. <BR> <BR>Of course this is all audio outputs, most soundcards don't recieve midi data &#40;although some do have onboard sounds and therefore do - in this case refer to the instructions for your soundcard&#41;. <BR> <BR>VST instruments will &#40;in SX2 and 3 at least&#41; have their own audio track where you can specify the audio out bus that they use.

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Cubase SX - MIDI track routing

Post by dubman » Tue Dec 13, 2005 2:10 pm

Thanks Neil C! <BR> <BR>I will try to figure it out.

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Post by dubman » Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:36 pm

Yes-I! <BR>Neil, i was able to route my audio track to "out2-3", so my midi tracks remained on "out1-2". But, using SX2 i didnt notice &#40;or didnt realized how to notice&#41; that the VSTi had it's own audio track so i could specify a bus on it. It's just MIDI track where "midi in" is my soundcards name and "midi out" is the VSTi's name. Could you possibly explain this to me? <BR>T

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Post by Neil C » Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:51 pm

When I load a VST instrument into the VST instruments list, 2 new lanes are placed on to the project window &#40;at the bottom - you may need to scroll down to see them&#41;. The second track has the audio out options for the vsti on it. <BR> <BR>Also if you go into the mixer you will see your vsti has its own channel &#40;again you may need to scroll to see it&#41;. Click on the e symbol &#40;'edit instrument channel settings'&#41; and the window that appears will also show the audio outs.

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Post by dubman » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:32 pm

..nope, nothing dere. <BR>i should probably upgrade to sx3. thanks a lot anyways, man!

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Post by Neil C » Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:21 pm

I checked it in SX2, works for me. <BR> <BR>Can you not see your vsti instrument channel in the mixer &#40;which is a seperate screen&#41;? <BR>Unless you have the mixer set to hide vst channels &#40;its the symbols on the left&#41; it will definitely be there. It will definitley have the 'e' symbol , and on the edit screen window there will defintitely be in the top left a little drop down list that gives you your available audio busses.

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Post by dubman » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:38 pm

Hi! <BR>when i press the e button of the midi track in the mixer window, on the top left, then i can see a drop down menu list like this : "midi in" &#40;da controlla&#41;, "midi out" &#40;da VSTi- <BR>s name&#41; and the "channel", where i can choose: ANY 1 2 3 4 5 etc... it's a midi channel, i assume... So again midi in is the controller, midi out is the VSTi and....i can not see the "audio 2" &#40;the bus i've created&#41; <BR> <BR>I'm trying to send my MIDI tracks to the mixing console, fix dem a little bit in terms of equalisation you know.... rub-a-dub just a little bit... and i cant do that. I got all my midi tracks on out 1-2 of my sound card.... <BR>......arggggh <BR>i'm getting tired of the applications, is it time for me to built some kind of a sound system.. <IMG SRC="http://www.interruptor.ch/cgi-bin/discu ... /happy.gif" ALT=":-&#41;" BORDER=0> I better be soldering... <BR>Thank you Neil_C once again man! no_jokes <BR>Cubase is a difficult one, now i can overstand dat.

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