Ok, this is really a Cubase 5 observation, but I expect the same is true in 6… consider this a question as to whether this has changed in 6, I guess, since my copy of 6 should be shipping tomorrow
I just realized that you can’t assign MIDI to a VST plug on the output of a VSTi instrument, whether it’s a VSTi output channel in the mixer or an instrument track. This seems odd. I discovered this while trying the Stutter Edit demo from Izotope.
Of course, the workaround is to create a group track and put Stutter Edit on it and route the VSTi output channel to that group track. But it seems like a pointless extra track to work around a limitation that doesn’t seem to be necessary.
I’m saying I can’t apply MIDI to a VST effect on a VSTi output channel. Many VST effects take midi as a way of automating them. In this case, the effect is stutter edit.
Not true, It also doesn’t work on VSTi output tracks.
I don’t use instrument tracks for Omnisphere because it is 8-part multitimberal. So instead I put it in the VST instrument rack have 8 MIDI tracks and activate all 8 outputs.
I wanted to use Stutter Edit to apply effects to Omnisphere Out A. So I put Stutter Edit on the insert of that output. Then I added a new MIDI track (unrelated to the MIDI track that provides the notes to Omnisphere, this one is just for Stutter Edit). I went to set the target of that new MIDI track to Stutter Edit and it wasn’t available.
Now, if you put Stutter Edit on a regular audio track or a group track this works just fine. It appears along with every other MIDI-targetable VST effect and VSTi in the project. Just not on VSTi outputs OR instrument tracks. Both are disabled for for reasons I find unfathomable.
I’m going to completely eat my words on this. I have no idea why it didn’t work yesterday when I tried it, but today I loaded up Stutter Edit as an insert on Stylus RMX Out A and it showed up as a targetable effect for my MIDI track. So…
