This is more a Cubase VST question.
I have a friend who is using an external keyboard (yamaha) to create midi sounds for his music, he's using cubase vst 5.1 to send midi notes to his keyboard using the audio card Midi out. He wants to asign patches to each channel like piano, bass, strings, etc., but cubase shows none.
Is there a way he can asing those patches from cubase to his keyboard rather than setting them on the keyboard??
Thanks.
Managing Patches in Cubase
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Neil B
Snoopy - hi
Yes it should be very easy to achieve this in Cubase - I use it all the time.
I'm not at my own computer at the moment so I'll send a better reply when I can.
In the meantime - it would help if you could find out the model of Yamaha keyboard and whether it will play in multi-timbral mode.
Also have a look at the manual midi chart to see if it will respond to program change.
Off the top of my head - create a part of say 1 bar in cubase.
Press Ctrl + G to go into the list editor.
Select "Insert Program Change" from one of the boxes at the top of the screen.
Right click and select the pencil tool.
Click somewhere in the grid and your program change is created.
Now you can edit this number to change to a different patch.
Repeat for as many tracks as you need to (for different midi channels)
Depending on the keyboard you can also send bank changes to pick from alternative banks of 128 patches.
I'll check this out when the power comes back on at my house and I can use my own computer (unless someone else responds first)
Neil B
Yes it should be very easy to achieve this in Cubase - I use it all the time.
I'm not at my own computer at the moment so I'll send a better reply when I can.
In the meantime - it would help if you could find out the model of Yamaha keyboard and whether it will play in multi-timbral mode.
Also have a look at the manual midi chart to see if it will respond to program change.
Off the top of my head - create a part of say 1 bar in cubase.
Press Ctrl + G to go into the list editor.
Select "Insert Program Change" from one of the boxes at the top of the screen.
Right click and select the pencil tool.
Click somewhere in the grid and your program change is created.
Now you can edit this number to change to a different patch.
Repeat for as many tracks as you need to (for different midi channels)
Depending on the keyboard you can also send bank changes to pick from alternative banks of 128 patches.
I'll check this out when the power comes back on at my house and I can use my own computer (unless someone else responds first)
Neil B