Hi everyone, I’m encountering a strange situation.
I mainly use MIDI tracks for composing. One second everything is working fine, and sound plays normally, but suddenly when playing MIDI events, the sound disappears. (I can see the signal flickering, but there’s no sound.)
However, when I use keyboard input, I can play sounds.
There is sound when I do other things (like watching YouTube videos), so the sound card should be working properly.
What’s even stranger is that I can’t select my sound card in both [Outputs] and [Control Room] simultaneously. I’ve tried everything else, but nothing works.
What @Mrhehon said: The conventional setup requires to set your Outputs to “Not Connected” because your Stereo Out is routed to the Control Room. It’s possible to activate the same monitors in both Output and Control Room at the same time if you enable it in your preference settings. I’d advise against it unless there’s a good reason to do so. In other words: Please switch the Outputs to “Not connected”, please.
With regard to your MIDI output - can you post a screenshot of a MIDI track and its routing, please?
It’s a good idea to use control room. If you vary the volume in the control room knob, this does not effect your musical creation. This is a good thing. It means ytou can work at a comfortable level in your studio, whislt mixing at teh levels a track requires.
When using the Control room function, you MUST have the Output section with a bus, but it must be unpopulated. This is definitely counterintuitive.
Cubase uses Asio drivers, these are independent from the normal Windows sound. Usually your media player will use Windows Audio, it’s a different process.
Asio was invented by Steinberg decades ago, to deal with the issue of latency. Latency is where you play a note on say a keyboard and there is an unacceptabble pocessing time lag before any sound is heard. Windows audio has an unuseable lag.
Most people use an audio interface with Cubase. Focusrite is my recommendation.
TBH, when cutting your teeth on Cubase, unexpected silences can occur frequently, it can be a wrong setting in Audio Connection, a stray mute button anywhere in the signal chain (seen in Channel Settings), a volume turned down by mistake on a VST, or a Sample player, and a host of other things. It can be frustrating as a newbie. it was for me.
Thanks, adjusting the no-bus setting worked. But the premise is also strange: why would Cubase turn off the bus for all my tracks? And calling other projects also resulted in no-bus functionality—it’s a real mystery.
