Midi following / parent track

Cubase
1

Hi

Anyone know if there is a feature in Cubase 5 that will let you add 3-4 software instruments and then add one miditrack that will work as a “parent” for the software instruments?
I want to layer some synth sounds and use this miditrack to edit the notes and to have the instruments work in a “read” function from this midichannel with every note change I do.

2

Install MIDI Yoke: MIDI Yoke Junction

Then assign “parent” track’s output to MIDI Yoke port 1 and assign “slave” tracks’ inputs to MIDI Yoke port 1.

3

Not sure if you can do ghost tracks, but you can make ghost parts which will follow any changes you make to the original. That means you’ll need 3 midi tracks and make ghost copies of the contents of 1 track to the other 2 and they’ll follow anything you change in them.

Thinking about it I’m not really sure if you can make ghost copies onto other tracks, but I guess it’d work. :confused:

4

thanks! I will try this


edit: there are no OSX version :frowning:

5

You can add up to 4 MIDI Sends to a MIDI track, each routed to its own independent MIDI instrument (including VSTis in the VSTi rack). Note that this is only possible from a regular MIDI track… an Instrument Track has no MIDI Sends.
Another possibility (but not free) came up recently…

Btw, @Strophoid,
“Yes, we can” :wink:

6

On Mac OS X, you can use instead an Apple IAC Driver bus (if necessary, activate it in the Apple Audio MIDI Setup utility).