Hi.
I’m really hoping someone can help with my Cubase/VSL issue.
Im using Cubase 13 pro on a windows laptop. I’m connected to a second windows PC over a network using VSL.
The connections are fine and working.
My problem is, I’ve created an instance in VSL that hosts 100 tracks, which are different instruments and articulations, each needs its own midi channel.
As there are 100 tracks in the VSL instance (the max Cubase can do) I am using midi channels 1 to 16, then selecting midi port 2, midi channels 1 to 16 and repeat.
I create a new instrument in cubase and create 100 midi tracks attached to it and I connect the instrument to the VSL instance.
My problem is that there is nowhere in Cubase (that I can find) that allows me to set which midi port in VSL I am sending to in the cubase midi track, so I can only select midi channels 1 -16 but can’t select midi port 2, Midi channel, 1 - 16, midi port 3, midi channel 1- 16 ect.
So I’m only able to have 16 midi tracks per cubase instrument connected to VSL?
I’ve been going round in circles for weeks, please could someone advise?
Sorry but i tried this earlier and i dont have the options shown that you have in the window highlighted UCK midi port 1 or the other drop downs, no matter what I select in any option, nothings says “midi port” or “port” anywhere.
Im still stuck and uttery confused.
I must be missing something very basic.
I just need to assign say 50 midi tracks to an instrument in cubase and have the 1st 16 midi track’s midi channel selected from 1 to 16.
Then from midi tracks 17 up to 50 have midi channel 1 to 16 selected but step up the midi port by one so i have midi port 1 for midi channel 1 to 16, midi port 2 for the next set of 16 midi channels, midi port 3 for the third set of midi channels 1 to 16.
Im not wedded to the ports thing if it works some other way fine, i just need to know how to make it work and allow me more than 16 midi channels per cubase instrument to get me to 50 midi channels sending individual midi to a cubase instrument hosting a vsl instance and connecting with 50 midi channels in vsl to play the sounds.
Its such a simple thing and the fact theres no clear or even available option means im missing somethimg important.
Sorry Im totally fried now.
Thanks, I’ll try that tomorrow.
Im wondering if I’m doing something dumb like looking at the wrong window for the instrument?
I’ll do some screenshots tomorrow.
I am a novice with all this stuff.
Hi all.
So. I think its working now…
Im not entireley sure what I did apart from uninstal Cubase, VSL, my audio interface and my controller keyboard and then reinstall them Cubase first.
If I have to guess at a dumb thing I did, it may have been that I was selecting the wrong version of VSL in one of the options. Whatever it was as soon as I opened up VSL, after rebooting and tried to change the midi port of one of its channels, I got different options than I’d ever seen before, so when I opened Cubase with a new project and created a new rack instrument I could see the new options in Cubase’s left panel.
I set up a couple of midi tracks from the rack instrument and selected two different midi channels and two different new options, which matched the midi port number in VSL and got the sound of a heavenly choir in my headphones, it was my choirs template I was building in VSL, while I was playing around with the sound I came up with a new part which I put down in the new Cubase project which all works and is fully editable.
I was about ready to explode yesterday so all the advice and support did me a lot of good.
I’m now taking the evening off to relax and reflect.
Thank you to all.