I need to connect both the yamaha mx88 as an external instrument on cubase 14 pro and the yamaha mg10xu. After installing the yamaha steinberg asio driver, it seems to only recognize one or the other, but not both.
I understand I need to use mg10xu 1 and 2 for the audio input and output in audio connections, and mxserries 1 and 2 for the mx88. But depending whether I connect the mg10xu usb cable first or the mx88 usb cable first I only get one ore the other.
How do I eed to install and configure the asio driver and audio connections to route this correctly?
Not sure that I am getting this : I guess that you are using the MG10XU as your audio interface, from which it’s only its inputs/outputs that should appear in the Studio > Studio Setup > Audio System panel and it should not been set as an “external instrument”, being a mixer. The MX88, on the other hand, should, or at least, can be.
Beside this, how are you using the MX88 - via USB or MIDI DIN ? Can you post here screenshots of, both, the Studio > Studio Setup > Audio System > [driver] panel and the Studio > Studio Setup > MIDI Port Setup one ?
OK. I have a problem with your setup, as the MG10XU doesn’t appear and it seems that it’s the MX 88 that is acting as an audio interface. So, I would try to connect the MX88 to the mixer and not directly to your computer. What happens when you disconnect the Yamaha MX 88 and, alternately, have you tried to use MIDI DIN and audio cables instead with it, connected to your MG10XU ?
Beside this, is there a way, on the MX88 to set it as only a MIDI/Audio source, without anything related to the ASIO driver ? The problem is that Cubase cannot work with two instances of the ASIO driver and, from what I see of your setup, it’s the MG10XU that should act as the audio interface.
Additionaly, I would get rid of the faulty MX88 2 bus one and start from scratch with defining only the MX 88 as an external instrument. Beside this, do you get a MIDI activity when playing it ? If so, I guess that you are using the USB MIDI Interface, listed in first postion of your Windows MIDI In ports. I would like to be sure of that, though : a screenshot showing a MIDI/Ibstrument track with the Routing section of its inspector unfolded would help, if you can.
Unfortunately, the mg10xu does not have a midi in/out. Just one usb that needs to go to the computer to have bi-directional connection. with Cubase not able to recognize two yamaha devices that both want use the same asio driver is that I reallyneed to do something as follows:
Mx88 usb to computer using the yamaha steinberg asio driver
Replace mg10xu with a different brand that uses a different asuo driver that cubase can recognize together with the yamaha steinberg asio driver
Then the mx88 stereo out goes to that new mixer as audio.
Unless there is a more current yamaha mixer that the mx88 can be connected through to the computer.
Either way, new equipment to solve this problem, lest cubase or windows is expected to use two instances of thw same driver in parallel. I suspect that will be a “good luck” scenario.
If that makes sense, any mixer suggestions to explore with around 10 channels?
These aren’t possible, using a Windows based system (seems possible with a MacOS based one, but I’ll let others using such a setup chime in), unless you are using a more or less reliable solution such as ASIO4All.
Depending on your budget, there are countless solutions either as mixers or as audio interface boxes with eventually an ADAT connection to extend the the amount of available mic/line ins. After this, I would try to use the MX88 without any ASIO driver involved, by using MIDI DIN cables instead, if needed, with a MIDI/Audio interface.
