I am using the Arturia Keylab II and in Cubase I have the correct ports selected to receive midi. There are 2 Ins and Outs for the Keylab controller. The one named DAW is for the DAW controls on the controller. I am pretty sure the settings are correct here with regards to the ports. And in fact, it is how it has worked until now. But for some reason Cubase doesn’t receive signals coming in from “Keylab 88 mkII DAW” anymore. It only receives signals from “keylab 88 mkii MIDI”. I have a midi monitor on my mac and I can see that the controller is sending signals and I am receiving those signals on my Mac but not in my DAW. Where and how can I trouble shoot this?
Hi, what is the expected behavior? I mean, the DAW port sends messages that should be used as you correctly state by the DAW, be it in either MCU, HUI or a MIDI remote. I see you have HUI, though I would personally go for the MCU. You perhaps mean that Cubase no longer responds to faders/knobs movements?
As a side note, I see you have attached a MIDI remote to your MIDI port (not DAW), but this seems irrelevant with the issue described.
EDIT: I now read your post more carefully. Well, note that these ports can be handled by a single app each time. This means, that if you have any other app using them, the signal will not find its way to Cubase. For example, you may notice issues when you have the MIDI Control Center open.
Hi and thank you. Ignore the Mackie HUI under the “Remote Legacy” I don’t use that and will delete it. I am only talking about the MIDI PORT SETUP ( The midi remote is for all other buttons on my controller that can be assigned). There are a few buttons on the Keylab controller that cannot be assigned. They transmit on the “Keylab mkII DAW” Input not the “Midi Input”. I don’t understand why this is the case but that is how it works.
If I understand, you are saying that some other app on my computer is receiving those midi commands and that is why Cubase does not receive the midi coming in on the “Midi In”?? THat seems odd, how do I check this? I don´t have any other apps open.
Yes, the transport buttons (Play, Rec, etc).
I saw you have prepared a MIDI remote using the MIDI port of the Keylab (not the DAW one) and this is fine. Now, in order to get the transport buttons to work, you’ll need to create another MIDI remote, connected to the DAW ports. You can then map these buttons.
Ok I understand. I did it and it works fine. Thanks so much for your help. Do you know why Arturia use 2 ports here? I mean they have the DAW midi coming in on one port and then the other midi coming in on the other port. I have set up two controllers in Cubase but it would be much nicer to have it all on one controller.
You can simply use just the daw port, since it covers all the available elements of the controller surface, except from the keybed. This is what I did in my own script for the keylab, publicly available here:
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