I already have drums on channel 10. I wanted to record a new part and there is no channel 10 in the list. I create the track anyway and record and it looks like a piano track. I go to give it a drum map and see that it is set to channel 1 and go to change to 10 but again there is no 10, just 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14,15,16. Can someone tell me why please? I want my roland VAD set to play it, like it does with channel 10 always,
Hi,
In Cubasr, you can set the same Channel to multiple MIDI Tracks. So it should work.
Could you attach some screenshots, please?
Though inspector still shows channel 1, the drum editor shows the correct assignments and plays back correctly (mostly). Just one more of about a dozen things I am listing that C15 made worse regarding drums support. I am assuming this is because most people are just using samples now and so players of real drums, scoring them etc, are of low consideration
Hi,
If you set Any channel in the Inspector, than the MIDI Channel from the Drum Map is in use. If you set dedicated channel in the Inspector, this dedicated channel is going to be used.
Why you don’t set the Track’s Output Channel to 10?
At the time, 10 didn’t appear as a choice in the inspector, but the drumset was already set to 10 in the drum editor and it played right, even though the inspector showed 1. Currently 10 has re-appeared in the inspector and can now be selected. 1 or 10 there made no difference in the actual playback.
The Drum Editor works in the same way for more than 30 years. Every item in a drum map can be routed to an individual midi port and channel. This allows to play several drum kits with just one drum map.
As a drummer and user of Cubase since 3, I have used the drum editor and scoring far more than perhaps the majority who just use samples. Only recently did channel 10 disappear for me as a choice for a recording or playback channel of a track. I am compiling a list of drum-related problems, bugs or just ways that C15 has made things harder. I will post such soon, with maybe a dozen issues, hampering my creativity, adding hours unnecessarily to my workload. But I’ll just mention here that saving and loading drum maps doesn’t work. I save something such as TD50x drum map and then go to load and nothing comes up with that name. Every project I have to re-tweak drum assignments for scores, and in C15, I wind up with some part(s) that just won’t go to the right position on the staff. I’ve been through this, demonstrating remotely with tech help and told it’s going to be looked into but has gone nowhere. I will demonstrate in a video if this isn’t clear.