Why I am not able to record sound from HALion Sonic’s internal keyboard (played with a mouse) directly on to either an instrument or a midi track, although I can do so either using an external keyboard as midi controller, or even using the mini keyboard available on the Cubase transport window? I can hear the sound from HALion fine, but no blocks register on the record-enabled track, which simply vanishes when I stop recording. Clearly Cubase can “see” HALion fine but for some reason is not routing its output to the record-enabled track.
Is there something I need to set up? I do not think this is a HALion problem incidentally, as the same applies to other synths etc - I can only record their output via an external controller. Nor is it external hardware - same difficulty on my desktop, with no audio interface or controller attached.
I am using Cubase 6.5, fully updated so far as I am aware.
You can not record MIDI output of a VST instrument unless the instrument provides a MIDI output, which can then be chosen as input of a MIDI or instrument track.
If the short answer to this is that it simply can’t be done, fair enough. I just felt like it ought to be possible - the midi output is going somewhere within Cubase because I can hear it, so why not on to the record track?
Anyway, do you really need to record with a mouse?! That just sounds awkward.
No, I’d normally record with the controller and then edit manually as necessary - as you describe below. But it would be useful to be able to drop in the odd note or noise when I am working on the non-connected PC.
Either use a midi controller or draw a blank part on the arrange page with the pencil and draw the notes inside there.
