Using windows 10, Cubase 14 and a Yamaha FGDP-50. I am new to this fyi. I installed the steinberg drivers and managed to create an empty track. Cubase sees the finger drum pad, I can record it and see the notations; but when I go to play it back there is no sound. I’ve played with several sound settings and poked around online but nothing has fixed this.
I would appreciate any help with this.
Hi and welcome to the forum,
Did you add a MIDI- or Instrument Track?
Is it’s a MIDI Track, what is the output of the track? If it’s an Instrument Track, what Instrument did you use?
What kind of Audio Device do you have?
Where are your speakers/headphones plugged to?
Did you add a MIDI- or Instrument Track?
Tried both. No joy.
Is it’s a MIDI Track, what is the output of the track? If it’s an Instrument Track, what Instrument did you use?
For MIDI the only option was MIDI output. For Instrument, the input is my Yamaha FGDP-50.
What kind of Audio Device do you have?
I’m using my laptop. This is the system information regard:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f1 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Yamaha Finger Drum Pad type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio bus-ID: 1-4:4
chip-ID: 0499:175d class-ID: 0103
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.0-4mx-amd64 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Where are your speakers/headphones plugged to?
Speakers are just the output speakers to my laptop or (I tried both) the FGDP-50.
Please note I’m not using pulse in windows, the system information was generated in Linux but Cubase 14 is in Windows 10.
Hi,
Where would you expect to hear the sound from?
The laptop speakers or, optionally, the FGDP-50.
Of note, I was able to export the track is a .mid file and play it with 3rd party player, but sounds different than the actual drum pad; different instruments.
From the FDGP manual:
1. Install the Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver on your computer.
The Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver can be downloaded from the following URL: https://download.yamaha.com/.
2. Connect your computer to the [USB TO HOST] terminal via the included USB cable.
3. On your computer, open “Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver Control Panel,” and then set “Device:” to “Finger Drum Pad.”
Then set up Cubase
1. Install the Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver on your computer.
The Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver can be downloaded from the following URL: https://download.yamaha.com/.
2. Connect your computer to the [USB TO HOST] terminal via the included USB cable.
3. On your computer, open “Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver Control Panel,” and then set “Device:” to “Finger Drum Pad.”
Then you need to set up the ASIO driver for the FGDP in Cubase:
You might need to set the output of the MIDI tracks to the FGDP, too, if you want that to play back:
Hi,
The *.mid file doesn’t contain any sounds. The player makes the sounds. That’s the reason, why I asked you:
To be able to use the Yamaha FGDP-50 sounds, add a MIDI Track and set its output to the Yamaha FGDP-50. Then you will hear the result from the Yamaha FGDP-50 headphones output.