Hello,
I have an external midi device (keyboard work station) that I have connected to my computer and Cubase 14 via a USB connection. I am able to use it flawlessly in Cubase with the driver supplied with the device. I can record both midi and audio tracks with my midi device. I know that with instrument VSTs I can record midi and convert the midi to audio. I am trying to see if there is a way to record a midi track from my device and covert that to audio in Cubase. This would help me a lot, but I haven’t figured out a way to do this. Maybe because midi is one-way when it communicates with my device? Any help would be appreciated.
Hi,
Do you have any Audio Device, where you can connect the outputs of your synth? If this is the case, record and edit MIDI in Cubase. Then add an Audio track. Playback MIDI (routed to the synth) and record the audio in real-time.
If your synth can behave as an Audio Device, you can very often export it the same way as the Virtual Instruments.
What kind of synth do you use?
Just a bit more info. Midi does not transmit audio. It is just messages. That means you can’t record audio from an external synth over a midi connection. If the synth has a usb interface then it may include an audio driver which allows this. Follow the above explanation on how to do this. If old midi devices then it would be the audio out of the synth to an audio input if your audio interface.
@Martin.Jirsak @mkok Thank you very much. I never thought of this. I just created an audio track and recorded the playback of the midi to the audio track 
. This is helpful because I would like to use Cubase to edit the midi before converting to audio and being able to use the preset sounds from my workstation. I have a Roland Fantom EX and am using the Fantom audio interface driver.