Cubase midi problems

[willsc]

Cubase SX. I'm using a midiman keystation49 for my controller, a darla 24 card and an SBlive card. I can hear the MS wavetable sounds when playing the controller, but when I try to use a vst plugin synth, my controller doesn't work with it, I only hear the generic piano sound that I know is coming from the wavetable synth (which I believe is on the SBlive card). I have the darla set up for the midi output, and I can get sounds from the plugin by playing the synth with my mouse, but I want to use the controller to control the plugin sounds. I'm sure I have something routed wrong, but I can't figure it out. I simply want to use my keystation49 to control the vst synths and other vst plugins.

please help

willstewart@sc.rr.com

[Bass Master "K"]

do you have the MIDI in set to your controller and the MIDI out set to the VST instrument in the track editor?

[willsc]

Okay, that solved my midi issue. But when I play a note on the keystation, their is about a one second delay between the time I hit it and the moment I hear it, with my guitar and the keystation. The keystation is run through a vst plugin synth, and the guitar through amplitube. I know this is latency, and I'm sure the vst's increase it because of more processing. But is there a way around this without monitoring directly so that I can take advantage of hearing effects as I'm playing?

Also, how do I get the direct monitoring of my guitar (outside of cubase I suspect) muted so that I'm hearing the output of cubase only?

Thanks again,

willstewart@sc.rr.com

[MILLSY5]

Try adjusting the audio buffers and decreasing their size to eliminate the latency. You need to find a good balance between latency and audio so that you dont start getting pops and cracks. If you dont use to many audio tracks this shouldn't be a problem.
Im not sure how you system works but anything running through the SB live will probably have latency as the card is grade a cack. (sorry but it is)


I dont understand you guitar question. Do you have a mixing desk or something. I cant work out how you can possibly hear the guitar without it running through cubase anyway.


Keith