I need to set the recording options in Cubase so that unarming the MIDI track also turns OFF the MIDI Input of the track. As it is now any channel that has monitoring enabled also allows the MIDI Input through the channel from the controller.
An example: I have two MIDI tracks and one Instrument track. The Instrument track has an empty instance of Kontakt loaded, and a VST3 plugin for MIDI processing inserted as an audio insert. The output of the two MIDI tracks are sent to the VST3 MIDI Plugin Inserts on the Instrument track. When recording I need to monitor MIDI Tracks 1 & 2, but only the armed track should be allowed to pass on MIDI from the MIDI controller to the VST3 MIDI Plugin. Now the Plugin receives controller MIDI both from the armed track and the unarmed track. How to stop the controller MIDI from the unarmed track?
There are also two additional Instrument tracks where the VST3 MIDI plugin outputs should be routed.
I have done this setup in Reaper, but cannot figure out how to do it in Cubase.
P.S. The Plugin should have the MIDI input set to “Not connected”, and this works fine because the MIDI signal is still routed to the Plugin. Se pic below.
The plugin processes multiple MIDI channels in real-time. While recording to one of the MIDI tracks, I need to hear what is already recorded on the other track. Also, the effect of the plugin will be calculated from the combination of what is currently being recorded from the controller to the armed MIDI track 1, and what is already recorded on MIDI track 2.
If the MIDI inputs are open also when the track is not armed, there will be two streams of the same MIDI (both incoming from the controller) to the processor and it cannot process properly.
In Reaper, when a MIDI Track is unarmed, the input from the controller is muted on that track, while the MIDI track itself can be monitored.
So I want the input from the controller to be automatically muted on a MIDI track when it is unarmed. Is this possible in Cubase?
Thanks Martin,
I was trying to replicate a setup from Reaper, but the functionality is different in Cubase. In Reaper the Input Monitoring is turned off when the track is unarmed, and this threw me off, when Cubase didn’t work the same way. Is there any way to link the arming of a track to the input monitoring on/off in Cubase?
Try it without the monitor. Midi sends will work even if the receiving track is not monitored or record armed. If you want to send midi on the same channel as received set the channel to “Any” for your midi track.
Thanks again for your reply, Misohoza. Changing the Instrument Channels to “Any” channel fixed the problem. Now MIDI Track 1 will only be routed to Instrument 1.
I want to load a VST3 plugin on an instrument track. To be able to do that I must:
First load an instance of, for example, Kontakt to the track. Only then will the “Audio Inserts” be visible in the “Inspector”.
Load the VST3 plugin to one of the “Audio inserts” in the track Inspector.
Remove Kontakt, and the plugin remains on the instrument track’s “Audio Insert”.
Is there a way to load a VST3 plugin to an instrument track without first having to load an instrument (Kontakt) to the track? I want to skip step 1 and 3.
Hello Nico, there are more info about this setup in the first post of this thread. It is a VST3 MIDI plugin. If there is a way to load it on an FX channel, maybe that’s the simplest way to do it without loading an instance of Kontakt? I don’t see a way to route the MIDI back to the instrument tracks when it is on an Audio or FX track?
So, is there a way to load a VST3 plugin to an instrument track without first having to load an instrument (Kontakt) to the track?
Thanks Nico,
How did you insert the VST3 plugin without first inserting an instrument like for example Kontakt? I cannot see any Audio Inserts in the Inspector, unless I have first loaded Kontakt.
Edit: OK I see you didn’t use the Audio Insert. Let me check here first.
I am trying to set this up, but haven’t got it right yet. Shouldn’t the two last tracks be instrument tracks? I need to load Kontakt there.
Edit:
OK I got it working correctly with the Instrument tracks loaded with Kontakt.
Thanks a lot for the help! I didn’t know the audio track could also work for this purpose.
I made a small change: I set the Instrument tracks MIDI input to “Any”. Without this setting, both instrument tracks would receive any MIDI input.
Glad you got it going. There are many routing options - I didn’t try to emulate your exact scenario, just wanted to show that you didn’t need a fake instrument track, to host a midi generating VST3 plugin.
To the best of my recollection, the one time that midi tracks are more capable than Instrument tracks is when wanting to route one midi track to many midi destinations.