Cubase 6.5.4 and Instrument Track UnMute issue

Cubase
#1

Hi all,

I searched the manual to see if this is expected behavior but couldn’t find anything about this issue. I have a super easy song I am working on with 3 tracks only. The problem is when I mute the audio track, and begin to record to the instrument track, it UNMUTES my audio track the moment I hit the “sustain pedal” on my virtual piano. Here is the setup:

  1. Track 1 - imported audio file recording
  2. Track 2 - Tempo track (I did an audio warp of track 1 to create a map, worked awesome!!!)
  3. Track 3 - Vienna Imperial Instrument track

That’s it, nothing else. No hardware loops, no software plug-ins on the channels, no EQ’s etc. nothing.

I first hit the M (mute) on the audio track. Then I highlight first, then record enable track 3, press the record button to begin recording. The second I hit the sustain pedal to prepare for my performance it unmutes my audio track.

Any ideas why?

Thanks!!

#2

So doing some research, it seems this issue is with my generic remote setup for my arturia labratory controller. I can see in the Generic Remote this line which I think is the culprit:

Control Name - Mute 1
MIDI Status - Controller
MIDI Channel - 1
Address - 64
Max Value - 127
Flags - Receive

The problem is now that I seem to have identified the problem, anyone know how the hell do I fix it lol! :slight_smile:.

Thanks!

#3

The line you are talking about, which is in the upper panel of your generic remote definition, seems to be OK. So, if not done already, I would try to add in the lower panel a line as following :

Control name : Mute 1 — Device : Not assigned

I have the habit to always have, in the lower panel, a line corresponding to each and every control defined in the upper one, even if some of them are not used to control a Cubase command. Be also sure that your generic remote definition is saved as a .xml file : this allows you to be sure that the control definitons will be retrieved each time you start a new Cubase session.

#4

Thanks, that did the trick. Now if I could just find someone who has done a complete generic remote xml file for this arturia lol.

Thanks again, much appreciated!

Maestro2be