Can´t hear my Midi keyboard on my audio harware

[rodrigo21]

Thanks a lot for your sharing your knowledge!

Iam recording Midi using the sound module of a Triton keyboard so that the information is echoed back to the Triton.
Everything is fine but I hear the Triton onle by the Triton output.
How can i hear it by the audio speakers(where y listen to all the tracks) plugged in my Mac?

[dafduc]

Right now Cubase only has the midi info - so it will either have to be routed to an internal sound source, like a soft synth, or routed to your Triton (which it sounds like you're doing) with the Triton audio out routed to the sound card's audio input, and recorded in Cubase.

Daf

[rodrigo21]

Originally posted by dafduc
Right now Cubase only has the midi info - so it will either have to be routed to an internal sound source, like a soft synth, or routed to your Triton (which it sounds like you're doing) with the Triton audio out routed to the sound card's audio input, and recorded in Cubase.

Daf

would I be recording in audio format?
(I want to record it Midi)

[trogdor]

yes you would be recording it in an audio format if you did that. You can record midi, but remember that midi is NOT audio, it is only data pertaining to the keys that you pressed. When you play back a midi recording, it sends this note information to something that GENERATES the audio, i.e. your triton. The triton is not coming out of the computer because no sounds are coming from the triton into the computer, only midi data. You have to use the audio outputs on the triton if you want to listen or record its sounds.

[dafduc]

You've already recorded it midi. But to get your keyboard's SOUND recorded, that sound has to be available to Cubase - which you can only do by recording it audio.

You can keep it all midi if you do VST instruments.

Daf

[rodrigo21]

So in the end (thanks to your advices)
I know I will defenetly need to record the triton in audio format.

Taking notice that in my project are other audio and midi traks.
Is it worth to record the Midi information also? maybe for a syncronization pourpose?

[dafduc]

Yeah, recording it midi first is a good idea - then if you find out you have to tweak a sound, or use a different patch, your part is already recorded, you just bounce it to audio again using the modified (or new) Triton patch. Or switch to a VSTi. Or double the part with another sound. Or change the song's tempo. Or edit timings / velocities / controller info...

I have to admit I don't always do the midi first - but I am occasionally sorry that I didn't, when I discover something needs tweaking later on.

Daf