For the longest time I have never had any problem playing or recording the VST instruments using my external midi controller (Yamaha P200). The other day I was playing and it was working fine until I tried to record. As soon as I toggled the record enable for the instrument and hit the record button it would no longer play or record notes. All the while I can see the “MIDI In Activity” indicator in the bottom right flashing away as I played. Turn off the record enable and the instrument started playing again, but obviously it wasn’t recording.
Next day I tried again but this time it won’t play any instrument, even without the Record Enable toggled on. The “MIDI In Activity” light flashes as I play but no instrument is played.
I haven’t changed anything on the external keyboard and I can see the “MIDI In Activity” light flash as I press a note and flash again as I release it so it’s registering note on and note off messages.
I had not touched the preferences recently. In fact, I’m not sure I ever really went in there and changed anything from the defaults. I tried resetting the preferences using the shift-ctrl-alt startup feature and I’ve uninstalled and re-installed the software but still the problem persists. I tried an update to a newer build too.
Does anyone have any idea what else I can do to figure this out. Is there something corrupted somewhere, maybe in the registry or a settings file that doesn’t get removed when you uninstall. Are there preferences I can toggle on or off to try and kick it into life.
Ahhh, That didn’t actually make any difference but, whilst in there I did notice in the channels section below the [1] channel was slightly whiter than the rest. Clicked that and all is well again. No idea how that got selected since I don’t ever recall going in there before. Corrupt preferences file perhaps.
The difference between selected and not selected for those buttons is a little bit too subtle in my opinion. Very hard to notice the difference.
Anyway. Many thanks for your help. I can play and record again.
I have a similar but more severe problem, so I hope I can piggyback on Andrew’s question:
I’ve just upgraded to Cubase Elements 12, (from Cubase AI 10.5) and am also using a new computer.
My interface is a Steinberg UR22mk2 which has worked great in the past. My new system works, but I cannot trigger any instruments with my external keyboard - via the UR22. Cubase recognises the UR22 and is passing audio. Midi activity is displaying in the small window at the very bottom right of the Cubase window, but instruments such as HALion, Groove Agent, or other VSTs will not sound nor are they displaying midi input activity in their own dedicated windows despite midi channel settings being correct.
Under Studio/Studio Setup/Midi Port Setup; the UR22 is listed and ticked.
I’ve also followed all the suggestions above under Midi/Midi filter to ensure only SysEx is ticked.
Any help appreciated - very frustrating!
I’ve found a way round my lack of midi input - though it’s not ideal:
When all other attempts had failed, I decided to try something I’ve used before and that is to untick and immediately retick some relevant parameters - a virtual ‘switch it Off and On again!’
Under Studio Setup/Midi Port Setup I Unticked the ‘Visible’ checkbox for the first item i.e. ‘In Steinberg UR22’ This allowed midi to trigger instruments in the project! Reticking this box (Back on) still allowed midi to work as normal. This continued when I moved to other projects, but when I closed Cubase and opened it again I was back as I started with no midi until I repeated the above untick/retick procedure. OK I can get on with some work but this suggests a bug, or am I missing something?
