Help, I'm a Midiot

[Emeric]

This is what I want to do:

Play piano (actually I've have to learn to play first, but that's another topic) on a roland controller keyboard, using an Alesis Nanopiano for the module, record the midi info using cubase.

This is what works so far:

I can get the module and the controller to work, no problem. I can get the midi data into Cubase. The problem is I can't hear what I'm playing when actually tracking. But I can hear it when played back - I have to repatch, which is fine, but I have to hear what I'm playing while recording...

These are the connectors I'm working with:

Roland - has a MIDI out
AARK - has MIDI IN and MIDI out
Alesis - has MIDI IN and MIDI out.

Now what?

Thanks,

Emeric

[c7sus]

So where do you have the audio outs from the Nanopiano going? Theres no headphone jack on that module? Are you having to repatch after a take due to a shortage of MIDI cables?

[Emeric]

The audio outs from the nano are going into the mixer, for monitoring purposes.. I can hear it under normal use. I could put down the tracks just using the audio outs to wave, but I thought it would be nice to take advantage of the midi editing.

I think I may just go back to that anyway, looking at a bunch of oblong blocks would probably drive me nuts anyway..

Thanks!

Emeric

[Terry]

It sounds to me like your computer doesn't know to send the MIDI back out to the module while recording. It's possible that your sound card's mixer has something muted or Cubase has an echo setting that's turned off. I don't know...it just sounds like something is set wrong because that shouldn't be happening. Also, I recommend editing in MIDI before recording it as an audio track. You get the most out your gear that way! Best of luck!

[Emeric]

Yeah it could be a Cubase setting... MIDI is not one of it's strong points.

I'll check it out.

Thanks