Hi, I have an issue I can’t solve. when I record midi to cubase 14 all is good , I listen through headphones on Yamaha , I can playback recording as well hearing and the sound comes through Yamaha. when disconnect usb from my Mac, I can’t hear sound from cubase anymore. please help me what do I need to do to be able to listen and edit recording when I am away from the instrument. thanks a lot!
So midi is only the note data and it triggers the sounds on the Montage.
If you want the sound of the Montage specifically then you have to have it connected or record it to audio.
Otherwise you need to load a VST instrument instead and use the midi to trigger that and find a similar sound..
Midi does not contain sound but only instructions.
The sound gets created in your Montage. If you break the connection there can’t be any sound.
Basically you sent the orchestra home, leaving only the conductor waving their arms.
You could record the sound into Cubase onto audio tracks while the Montage is connected.
thanks for such a quick answer. help me out some more. how do musicians basically work on the road of they need to edit stuff? they find similar vst and edit? and then when back in studio they reassign it/ change back the instrument?
2 question: in some videos about Yamaha/cubase connection -they said how montage or modx is capable of recording both midi and audio at the same time? is this the case?
if I have same midi and audio tracks from recorded into cubase? audio I can’t edit , right? but I can edit midi . and I believe then edited midi can be converted into audio in cubase ?
thanks a lot for your help. simple questions but I couldn’t find direct answers for that
how do musicians basically work on the road of they need to edit stuff?
Probably the majority of them never use any hardware synths. Or they don’t go on the road.
2 question: in some videos about Yamaha/cubase connection -they said how montage or modx is capable of recording both midi and audio at the same time? is this the case?
Yes, it has audio over USB.
if I have same midi and audio tracks from recorded into cubase? audio I can’t edit , right? but I can edit midi . and I believe then edited midi can be converted into audio in cubase ?
Same limitations still apply, you can’t edit midi and hear what you are doing or render to audio unless you have the Montage connected.
thanks! will keep learning this !
They render MIDI to audio and then edit the audio. Use “Render in Place.”
You can do that, or you can just Render in Place after you record the MIDI performance.
You can edit audio. You probably should edit audio–and just keep the MIDI tracks as muted backups. If you don’t commit to a particular performance/sound on your tracks, it will be hard to make progress (finish).
Try to play around with some test-projects where you can see how all the audio editing features work.
To try and put it more simply. Midi is messages only. There is no audio. The sounds you are hearing are located in your montage and not in Cubase. Midi is sent from Cubase and your montage then plays the audio corresponding to the messages. I suggest you read up on midi and what message’s it sends.
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In situations like this (MIDI data on a MIDI track without my synth easily available; came up just today, actually!), I create an Instrument Track and assign a VSTi, then duplicate/drag drop the MIDI data onto that Instrument Track (then Render in Place as @XLColdJ said).
Is there an easier way to do all that? It’s what Chat-GPT recommended when I asked today.