Mixing Down MIDI In Cubase SX3 (SOS)

[liquidair]

I'm talking about the physical outputs of the computer's sound card and the physical inputs. I thought about it some more and realized you may not be able to do this because most stock sound cards have a single jack for the in and a single jack for the outputs. You can confirm this by letting me know how your speakers are connected to the computer, one cord or two. If it's one, then my method won't work anyhow. This may be why you are getting confused, cause your sound card may not have left and right inputs.

A pass is when you highlight a section in a program (like the blue highlight we talked about earlier) and hit record. The program then records a pass.

IN Cubase adding tracks is very easy. Let me start up the program...Ok, on the top click on "Project" then add track -> audio. Select stereo if you want to record something that has panning information in it (such as the entire drum kit). Stick to mono tracks for any single instrument such as bass, guitar, etc. The other options are for surround stuff, don't worry about them for now.

Now that you have the tracks added, to record multiple at one time you just click on the button on the track column there to your left (right under where it says "Audio XX") with the red circle on it. That arms the track and if you hit record it will write info to that track.

Now make sure you select a the track input to the one on your computer you are going to be using for audio. Do this by first clicking on the channel itself and looking at the box on the far left. It should say Audio XX, then below that "inserts", "equalizers", etc. Click the plus next to the track name, in this example it's Audio XX, and then it should say "in: left-1" or something. Change that to the input you are using and you should get sound!

Get back to me on this and have a good day at school tommorrow! I know high school sucks, but summer is almost here.
Brian

[Anthony_Musician]

Sorry you know what I ment to ask..not sure if its the same thing but I ment to say bounce....like I already have the MIDI placed in the drum map now all I need to do is get it into an audio form I think or something like that and then mix it down...im not using an external gear to record if thats what you mean by the soundcard thingy...umm what else?....and by flagging it do I turn the flag red this time to record instead of blue for mixing down or no?

P.S..and Audio xx not seeing it...is it suppose to be beside the record button where the track name is or no?

[Anthony_Musician]

kk also checked under the plus thingy and all it says is volume..clicked that and now it has a list like Panner, Sends, EQ..and stuff..

[liquidair]

Ya see here's the problem....
The MS wave synth or whatever is something internal in your computer that can only be routed as far as I know to the output of your soundcard. It's not actually passing through Cubase. What is happening is that when you draw in the drum hits, a MIDI message FROM Cubase is being sent to the MS wave synth, telling it to play this note at this time. When it recives the message of what to do, the audio goes to the soundcard and you hear it through your speakers. But like I said, the audio signal never gets passed through Cubase which is why it doesn't show up when you mixdown.

I'm going to research to see if it is possible to get those sounds internally routed but I don't think you can. I'll let you know what I come up with.

By Audio XX I meant XX to be some number. Cubase starts by calling the 1st track Audio_01, then Audio_02 and so on...
As for the flags, no keep them blue. When they are red, that means the position marker will jump over that red highlighted section. You really only use the Red to test a part you want excluded from the song, say to see if you like it better to have verse 2 go straight into the chorus and skip the prechorus or something.

[Anthony_Musician]

About that Wave blah blah....do you think it would make a difference if I connected a keyboard to play the MIDI? Like could it route through that and be echoed off that and then it will record properly..cause I have a Yamaha and some old Midi cable that can go inot my game port

[liquidair]

Oh look farther left. If that plus that expands the track is the farthest thing on the left then you need to click the button that 3rd from the left at the top of the project window. It looks sorta like this []> and says "show inspector" if you hover over it. Then a new column will open to the left and click the plus next to Audio_XX.

[liquidair]

No about the keyboard. MIDI is just instructions, there's no audio in it. It just tells the keyboard or sound engine what to produce. YOu could use the keyboard's sounds, but you would still need audio cables to do it as well as the midi cable.

[Anthony_Musician]

Did you still want me to check 4 the speakers thingy...? Like how many chords are connected?

[liquidair]

sure if you want I betcha it is one. Let me look into the internal routing and see if I can't make things easier for you that way.

[Anthony_Musician]

Ya just 1...im just using normal speakers that came with the computer because i'm using professional earphones to hear the real mix...I dont really have a studio up right now..just a normal computer (XP home edition) and i'm just making MIDI tracks to get ready to record vocals after the summer when my studios up..Oh...also...do I need to do anything with my device setup....do you want me to check anything in that area?