It’s been a while since I opened a certain Cubase project. When I did, some of my routing seemed screwed up, but now I think it may be my keyboard controller (an M-Audio 88) sending out the wrong MIDI data.
Maybe you can help me verify that or not…
I think I have the M-Audio 88 set up to only transmit MIDI from the first “zone”. It has four zones. As far as I know, I’ve disabled three zones and just kept one zone which covers the entire keyboard.
So, in Cubase I created a new, blank project.
I set up two Kontakt instruments on two different MIDI channels.
The monitor button is engaged for both channels.
When I play my keyboard controller I get sound from both tracks as long as the monitor button is engaged for the track respectively.
I thought I’d set the routing correctly, but maybe not.
In the attached images you the routing. You can see both tracks reacting to MIDI when really it should only be the selected track.
Let me know if you have any ideas. I know it’s something simple that I’m overlooking because all of this worked before I dismantled my system and then re-set the system back up.
You have set the MIDI output channels to 1 and 2, but the MIDI input channels are set to Any, which means that any channel from the keyboard is routed to both sound generators. If you want to control both the sound generators separately, you’ll have to set the MIDI input channel of the first track to Channel 1 and the MIDI input channel of the second track to Channel 2. If you then e.g. split the keyboard (like channel 1 at the bottom zone, channel 2 at the top zone), the corresponding sounds will be generated (resp. recorded) separately on the two tracks. Same goes for layered zones.
Thanks for the pic and help. I’ll try that when I get home today.
I just need the entire zone one (the oxygen 88 has four) to control the plugins. Should that be set to transmit on all midi channels? And then Cubase sorts which channels route where, like you’ve said, I believe.
Believe it or not, my setup is normally connected with VE Pro hand hundreds of channels. I decided to created a blank project for simplicity sake. But this behavior also happens when I have a massive VE Pro Server Template open.
That’s why I thought it might be the Oxygen that’s the culprit here.
Since, as you say, one zone covers the entire keyboard, there will only be one MIDI channel on which the keyboard sends to Cubase. If you don’t want to play several sounds at the same time, but only one specific sound, the following setting would be the most convenient:
Track settings for the MIDI In/Out channels set to “Any Input”/“Channel 1” (default), input monitors turned off, “Enable Record on Selected MIDI Track” option in the settings activated and all VSTi set to channel 1.
Then all you need to do is select the track you want to play on or record, with the sound you set there.
