Cubase Le 4 Midi... Please Help

[LouieV]

Hi There Everyone,

I just started using Cubase LE 4 for recording and I have a problem when it comes to my Midi monitoring... I couldn't hear the sound coming out of my headphones when it comes to playing the midi track, but I could hear my recorded guitar parts...
I exported a Midi Drum track from Guitar Pro 5 and when I import it in Cubase and play it, I couldn't hear the sound coming out. It know that I correctly imported the midi because whenever I play it I could see the monitor bars moving so that means I imported it right, but when I play it I could get no sound from my headphones... is there something i've done wrong? Please help me with this I would really appreciate any help or advice.

Thank you and Godbless

 

[redflapper]

Same here...

I've got exactly the same problem.
But, since no one has bothered to reply to you, neither of us is even one step closer to hearing a midi track.
Good luck. I guess I'll keep searching.

 

[altitude909]

the midi track needs to output to something to make sound. What is the midi output set to

 

[redflapper]

I think you are looking for an Instrument track!

Okay, a few days ago I was having the problem stated above.
I'd import into Cubase a MIDI file made in other software, creating a "MIDI" track. That seemed like the obvious thing to do. Then, when I played it back, I couldn't hear it.

However, after a bit of research, I now see that a MIDI track must port to a MIDI control device in order to be heard on playback. If you want to simply play back a MIDI file using Cubase, you need to put the file on an Instrument track.

So, create a new Instrument track and import the MIDI file. Then port the track through Halion or whichever VST plug-in you have. You will hear it as if it were audio.

Hope that helps.

 

[suprstar]

MIDI is not audio. Midi is like sheet music for computers. You have to set up a virtual instrument to play that midi sheet music. In Cubase and a lot of other DAW's, vsti's are the virtual instruments that play midi. One property of a midi track is where to send it. Send it to a vsti. You can't play sheet music (aka midi) if you dont have an instrument to play it on! A vsti can be a piano synth, a drum kit like ezdrummer, anything. You can send the same midi track to different vsti's, and they will all play it back differently. You can also send the midi to a hardware synth like a midi keyboard, roland vdrums module, boss drum machine, etc, then record the audio produced by that hardware.