Hi Everybody,
just realized everything is in english here, so let´s give it a try…
My Cubase is currently in German.
I did create a track for each instrument of my drumset.
Please see screenshot:
That works pretty well. I can put different effects on each instrument now. Like EQ on the HiHat only.
I named it “Drum Tama” and now I have two “Drum Tama” listed. One is indented like all the single instruments.
I am not sure what that is for. Any hint?
Here is my problem: I can adjust the volume for each instrument (HiHat, Snare, BD etc) but not for the complete drumset any longer.
I tried a workaround by routing all drum instrument tracks into a group track, but the signals are not routed to the group track.
Any idea?
best regards,
Stephan
When you run a different copy of Groove Agent for each hit, you can’t adjust “the whole drumkit” because, in reality, you are running nine versions of the same drumkit. like you said, you can route everything into a group.
if you want to restrict the ram and resources used you could open a rack version of GA and then trigger the the GA with 9 different midi tracks connected to GA. Then you have control over the main volume of the drumset. Then you must control volumes etc inside GA mixer.
you could also activate more outputs from 1 groove agent rack instrument if you want to
Let me fix your terminology, which might lead to understanding the issue.
You didn’t make multiple tracks. You have one Instrument Track with the multi-outs. In the Project window, they are present as an automation tracks. In the MixConsole, they are present as Audio Return Channels.
To route them to a Group, the easiest way is to do this in the MixChsnnel.
Yeah, this is one annoying “feature” of multi-out instruments in Cubase, you cannot name the instrument track differently than the first (main) output channel of the VSTi. It doesn’t make any sense to me either, Id like to call the instrument track e.g. “drums”, and the first output channel “Kick”. Not possible…
You should have a ‘kit mix’ chn in the mixer for adjusting the global GA volume; so you don’t nees a group track.
And
Drum Tama 1 - has a VSTi track for holding the midi events, and
Drum Tama 2 - an automation chn for the Whole kit,
and
there after automation channels for each instrument in the kit.
