GA4 Live Record to Cubase Midi track

Virtual instruments
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Hi I’m running Groove Agent4 with Cubase 7.5. I got through the setup and everything seems to be working. I have GA4 loaded as a VST rack instrument. I can’t record the midi output from GA4 directly into the GA midi track in CB. I am able to drag patterns from GA4 to the midi track and play them back. I can’t record the audio track easily either . I am able to use stereo out from GA as an input to an audio track and record that way.

With the early versions of GA I could record the midi and audio live while using GA as a high powered drum machine (using intros, patterns, fills etc. with a little midi editing after laying down the initial midi track).

I really like the new features and I can edit the patterns and drag them into CB which is probably a better way to create more realistic drum tracks. But sometimes I just want to see how something sounds with drums, or use GA4 as a cue track.

I’ve spent hours with the tutorials and manual and can’t figure out how to record to host.

So have I completely missed an obvious way to record to host?

Thanks in advance for any help

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This is normal behaviour. It’s not possible to record the midi out port of GA. The easiest way to convert GA to audio is using Audio Mixdown → tick the “Channel Batch Export” → tick GA. Then you get a audio track with the drums only.

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Thanks! That helps. I’ll stop fighting the system and get on with learning how to use it.