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Topic: MIDI Question

I recently hooked up my new digital piano and played about with MIDI. The piano has only a few sounds other than piano on it and I created a track with a drum beat and piano riff, then I added strings and choir voice and I was pretty pleased with the loop to jam over.

I saved the project and today when I come back to it, it no longer plays the separate voices - i.e the strings and choir and these are interpreted as though they are all piano.

I can't image it has anything to do with cubase as nothing has changed but I'm not sure why it would have worked then not, and I have no idea how to get it back to working again.

Any clues?

Re: MIDI Question

I had the same issues with edirol orchestral when using mix craft. 

I could never find out why.

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Re: MIDI Question

cubase will only remember ( record/save ) controllers etc ie note on/off..velocities.midi channels..
it does not know how you setup your digital piano

if you use native instruments ( vsti )this problem does not occur as everything is within the
computer

assuming you recorded 3 midi tracks
ch1 for piano
ch2 for choir
ch3 for drums

then you must setup your piano so midi channel 1 has the piano assigned to it
                                                         midi channel 2 has the choir assigned to it
                                                and   midi channel 3 has drums assigned to it

you can usually save and send patch changes to your keyboard....but all keyboards are slightly different
so check your documentation.it seems you're sending all your midi to 1 channel which has a piano
assigned to it.........or midi ch 1/2/3 have a piano assigned to them

a good rule of thumb is when you like a particular part you've written on midi.. say a piano part
record the audioonto an audio track in cubase ...this way you will always have that sound
regardless of what happens to your keyboard...still keep the midi though in case you want to edit it at
a later date ( notes/sound etc )

a good starting point is... after deciding a tempo record a basic drum track..so you dont have to use
the onboard metronome ( except for count in )

render it to audio ( you only have to record say 4 bars ) then copy and paste the length of the song

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Re: MIDI Question

Thanks - makes sense. I will check the manual - before I had no idea what I was even looking for.