My pa 600 sound is midi track sounds is changing automatically when i chnage a sound

Hello , why when i record a solo from my pa 600 on cubase as a midi track sound are changing , like İ wanna play a piano on midi track when i finish the record sound is okay and piano but when i change a sound from my pa 600 to guitar my piano midi track sound changing to guitar

Plase someone help me :folded_hands:

Hello and welcome.
I have a hunch what’s going on. But first I have to ask: what is a PA 600?

That’s to be expected….the midi is just note data and is playing back the sound of your keyboard so if you change the sound on the keyboard, the sound you hear changes.

As it’s an arranger keyboard I would assume it works multi-timbrally, you’ll need to dive into the manual and learn how you can set up different sounds on different midi channels to be triggered independently from Cubase….so for example you output piano on midi channel 1, guitar on midi channel 2 etc etc.

Keyboard Korg arrenge pa 600

You will need to record the audio output of the PA600 onto an audio track.

Yes sir thanks but im doing like u said but its also changing a sound

So this is the only way to use my pa 600 sound or i can use it like midi track

The most common usage is to have a MIDI track to record and edit the notes played, and an audio track to record the output. You can then create another pair of tracks, and repeat the process with a different sound.

In Cubase Pro it is possible to set up The PA600 as an “external instrument” and then use the PA600 on an instrument track, and be able to “render the audio in place”.

If the PA600 is multitimbral (I haven’t found that out from a quick search, but I will try to find out) then it can play different sounds on different channels at the same time.

The most common usage is to have a MIDI track to record and edit the notes played, and an audio track to record the output. You can then create another pair of tracks, and repeat the process with a different sound.

In Cubase Pro it is possible to set up The PA600 as an “external instrument” and then use the PA600 on an instrument track, and be able to “render the audio in place”.

If the PA600 is multitimbral (I haven’t found that out from a quick search, but I will try to find out) then it can play different sounds on different channels at the same time.

Edit: It seems the PA600 is 16-channel multitimbral, so you can have up to 16 tracks each playing a different sound at the same time. There will be a setting you have to change on the PA600 to put it into multitimbral mode. I don’t know what terminology Korg uses for this. Roland uses “pattern“ or “perform“. If you only want to listen to the sounds from the PA600 for now, you can ignore audio tracks and just create up to 16 MIDI tracks.

Thank u sir for helping but i wanna record without channel from my keyboard like freely because i have some sound i want on ( play style ) mode on my pa 600 i this impossible to record like no channel?

You can record the audio out from the PA 600 straight into an audio track without using a MIDI track. What sort of computer are you using?

When using MIDI notes and controllers always have to be sent on any of the 16 channels. You cannot send a note on no channel.

As @Barry_Ford already suggested, if you want to have different sounds at the same time you need to utilize different midi channels. One per instrument.
If channel 1 uses a piano and you change that to guitar it will be a guitar sound. You could use channel 1 for a piano sound and channel 2 for a guitar sound.

According to the Korg manual your device seem to have a MIDI preset available. Maybe using this will help you. Look for the chapter “MIDI: General Controls” and for “Factory data: MIDI Preset”.

im using a dell pc

Yes sir im doing this like u said bu i think there is no way to record a sound from my pa 600 sounds as a midi track there is only way just record it on audio track i think

That is because MIDI never includes the sound but only the playing instructions. Think of a conductor waving their arms around. No sound is heard, you need the orchestra to make the sound. MIDI captures the performance of the conductor, audio captures the performance of the orchestra.

Okay sir i will record on audio track but there another problem i have when i record some instrument like some piano vst or kontakt sound , the record of instruments a volume is changing when i try to select some sound on my pa 600 for audio track

Well - as I see you need to study more MIDI and your PA600 instrument. If not you will be asking a lot of basic questions still with not to big result for you. Until you understand at least the basics of MIDI and your instrument you will be lost - definitely.

As written in previous posts: MIDI data are only the instructions for instrument HOW and WHAT to play. If you record audio (=the resulting sound from instrument - either based upon real playing or upon recorded MIDI data) then you have to set everything up according to the actual instrument sound/program set. They differs - it is normal.

Crossing fingers in your study :slight_smile:

P.

Could you please explain in more detail what you are trying to do, I don’t yet have a clear picture, so I am guessing. If you can identify things that have worked the way you want/expect them to and things that are not yet working for you, that will help us to help you. We’ve all started out struggling to get anything working!

Yeah sir but i did anything from cubase and my pa 600 but its really not working its been to week to find a some way to fix it but its really not working

I had a good look through the manual and I don’t think the PA600 actually works multitimbrally over USB…..only from the internal sequencer.

So you need to first record midi….edit or quantise as necessary, then record this to an audio track, mute the midi track and record the next instrument midi on a new track.

Honestly, it would be a lot easier to use software instruments.

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