Recording MIDI form an MC500 to Cubase

[IonMan]

Ok, I have had my FIRESTUDIO for a while now, but just havent had time to play with it enough and was a little confused by strange happenings on Cubase LE.

In Actual fact, I am still not clear on issues that delayed me in starting real recording sessions, but I was able to figure out how to get done what I needed to get done.

My initial goal was to create a number of projects (songs) and get my existing MIDI tracks into Cubase. I required that I have a separate MIDI track for each MIDI part (this makes editing a dream.) I figured that the simplest method would be to record MIDI from my MC500 (which is the format my MIDI's were / are currently in,) directly into the desired tracks on Cubase.
[ie MIDI Track 11 = Drums, 12 = Bass, 13 = Brass, 14 = Rhodes and so on.]

The problem I had was that when setting MIDI channels to individual MIDI tracks on Cubase (Drums=CH10 etc,) the sound was a jumbled mess when replayed. Something was screwing up the MIDI channel assignments. I spent a few days on this problem and my first solution was to record one midi track at a time in conjunction with filtering.

Needless to say , that method sucked and I was put off a tad for a week, lol.

I had a think about it during that week and it occurred to me that there MUST be a way to do it simply. And after fiddling around a little more, I found that there is:

Method:
(1) Disable ALL mido filtering
(2) CReate or use a MIDI track and set the tracks MIDI IN parameter to "ALL" and the MIDI out as appropriate (mine is Presonus MIDI out)
(3) Arm the track (for recording) and start Cubase, then start the MC500.
When the recording is done ...
(4) Right Click on the track just recorded (contains all ur MIDI parts) and select MIDI:: Disolve Part.

This will create a seperate track for each Part (or Note if you want that???)
(5) Mute the original track and play the song .. if all sounds fine, dlete the original track.

You now have a seperate Track for each MIDI part.

The Power of this is actually amazing. The song need never be static and you can modify it at any stage, to your hearts content. Including changing the type of drum samples or synthesis you want to use at any time. So your sound will evolve over time if you desire it to.


Hope this helps someone.

Ian