Hope someone can help me. I’m a noob so bear with me!
I want use my Motif XF7 to input notes (play!) into cubase, using USB. I have installed the correct USB to midi driver in my PC and have set the XF7 to transmit via USB rather than its midi out. But nothing! Do I need to define in Cubase that a particular track uses a USB input rather than midi. And if so, how?!
If your midi devices are correctly configured, any midi track will allow the data source to be “any” or a selected instrument. In other words no, as soon as you start playing, you can start recording. If not…check the midi device config.
Yes Cubase was indeed launched after the usb was connected.
As for configuring midi devices I’m at a bit of a loss on that one Where exactly do i go to do that?
Many moons ago, after much head scratching, I set Cubase to work with my RME Multiface 2 interface (both midi and audio) and that all works fine. But what do I need to do for Cubase to ‘see’ the USB data?
I do have some vague memory of having to set which port was used for a track’s midi input (or was that on a previous version of Cubase… and no longer applicable). It was a panel to the left of the tracks, but now I don’t see this… I’d like to be able to see this panel. Any ideas?
I half set up Cubase 7 many, many moons ago but haven’t been near it since… hence these half notions!!
Yamaha devices are notoriously iffy when it comes to USB/MIDI. You definitely want to install their MIDI driver on your computer. Then things will go smoothly.