I haven’t used Stylus RMX in Cubase for quite some time, but now when i try to I can’t get it to work properly. Everytime I try to drag a MIDI-file from Stylus’s GUI is just springs back and won’t show up in the Cubase’s arrange window.
I have tried messing about with the settings for MIDI-film-import but haven’t been able to solve is.
You have to drag a part to the first midi track in Cubase, assuming you have 8 midi tracks for the 8 Stylus channels. So if you’re dragging the third part in Stylus to Cubase, you need to drag it to midi track 1, and then it drops on track 3 on mouse release. It’s a fairly weird system, but it works.
What’s annoyed me for years is that this process also renames a track further down the window to SysEx. First world problems etc.
I am having this same problem. I drag the MIDI file to a MIDI track, and it looks like it wants to do it, but then when I let go of the mouse button, the MIDI file disappears and the file doesn’t stick. It started when I upgraded to Cubase 9.5 and my Mac Book Pro (2017) to High Sierra. So I can’t figure out which one of them caused the problem. I haven’t been able to figure out how to resolve this. This is a feature I use all the time. I have been resorting to playing triggered loops to get around the problem. But that is very limiting and would prefer to have the MIDI to edit. I hope someone is still monitoring this thread and has some ideas on how to resolve. I hope its a stupid setting somewhere in Cubase or Stylus. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Its as the reply above. You need 8 midi channels in Cubase, and always drag a midi clip from Stylus to Cubase midi channel 1 - it will then drop to the correct channel. If you are on, say, Stylus track 6 and you drop it to Cubase channel 6 it will vanish into thin air as it’s trying to put it on 6+6=12, which doesn’t exist (sometimes I think it will create a new midi channel not connected to anything)
It’s an odd system, and I still get glitches where it names other tracks in my session with SysEx. But once you know, it’s all liveable with.
So weird. I followed those directions outlined above and still no luck. Went into the Preferences to ensure the MIDI import setting are correct. (Spectrasonics - Knowledgebase) So frustrating. I’m sure it’s something simple, but I can’t think of what it might be. I’ll keep researching. I’ve been trying to avoid calling Spectrasonics and sitting on hold for ever… lol
I found if your using Stylus RMX as an instrument track, no matter what the preferences are, when you drag, it always goes to the bottom of a project. If you drop on a midi track all is well. I’m not sure if this is a bug or not but it’s frustrating, hence I always use midi tracks routed to the RMX instrument track.
To use MIDI drag and drop in cubase, it is important to go to (Cubase) Preferences–> MIDI–> MIDI File" and uncheck “Import To Instrument Tracks” and uncheck “Auto Dissolve 0” .Then you can drag and drop where you want.
I attached a png file from my midi file preferences. So i can drag and drop on all tracks including instrument tracks. They are in German ,but easy to translate in english ( same place ). Before i did change the preferences i had exactly the same problems as you now.
OK, I copied your settings exactly and still, when I try and drop a Stylus RMX (same thing with Superior Drummer 3) loop onto the instrument track a new midi track is created.
Worked for me. I’m dropping stylus tracks into a midi track which is “tied” to the stylus instrument track - does that make sense? Thank you tini for figuring that out. How you came to that conclusion IDK. I’ve been struggling with this issue for YEARS to the point where I haven’t used Stylus for years - tracks jumping all over the place, creates unwanted new tracks at the bottom of the project, much frustration. Thank you!
OK, I FINALLY figured it out. Midi (and Instrument) tracks have to be set to “musical mode”. Is ther a way when adding tracks to have this set to default?