MPC Beats / Cubase Recording

[sgtblikey]

Hi,

I’m not an expert but… First of all, that’s the expected behaviour - Beats is working as an instrument on its own track. You do your work in the Beats (plugin) interface and when you start playback in Cubase, Beats plays back your programming.

To record its output into an audio track, take a look at the following post:

Recording Audio from a VST Instrument

Here’s how I do this, if RIP or full Audio Mixdown isn’t needed. This is for Cubase Pro. Create VST Instrument Track (or midi track if using Rack Instrument) From Mixer (lower 3rd), select track, right click and select “Add Group Track to Selected Track or Tracks” For this group, Choose “Stereo,” “Outside Folder” Group Track created with Group Track Fader right next to the Instrument Track. Name the Group VST Patch, or anything else. From Group Track Inspector, set Group Track Output to “No …

This explains how to record the output of one track onto another audio track. In the second instruction, right-click on the MPC Beats track and select Add Track > Group Channel to Selected Channels (I think the menus may have changed since the post was written).
Follow through the rest of the instructions and you should get your beat recorded onto the audio track. If you want to listen while recording, click the monitor button on the audio track.

To record a new part in Beats, i.e. add more midi events to the Beats programme, open up the Beats plugin and hit record. Nothing will happen until you hit Cubase’s play button, at which point Beats will start playback and will record your performance.

Hope that helps.
Nic