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Hi all,

I am new to cubase and this program is a nightmare. I am trying to make drum sound with my keyboard and having no luck. Other threads and videos instruct me to click 'devices-VST instruments' but there is no option for 'VST instruments'. I can get the qwerty keyboard thing to pop-up and seems to be active, but I don't seem to have drum sounds available. Please help, thanks.

Venz
 
Do you have a VST instrument?

What version of Cubase are you using? You have to give information, if you expect others to help man.

You have to create an instrument track, then select a VSTi to make the sounds.
 
Venz said:
Hi all,

I am new to cubase and this program is a nightmare. I am trying to make drum sound with my keyboard and having no luck. Other threads and videos instruct me to click 'devices-VST instruments' but there is no option for 'VST instruments'. I can get the qwerty keyboard thing to pop-up and seems to be active, but I don't seem to have drum sounds available. Please help, thanks.

Venz
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I am NO Cubase guru by any means but I have managed to get Cubase Ess4 to play the Jazz Kit in Halion One.

Getting MIDI to make sounds in Cubase is tricky to begin with because SO many things have to be right and in place. Which version do you have and what is the computer and OS?...I shall have to assume you can play audio tracks or we shall be here all day!

Go> Device Setup and look at MIDI Devices. Is your soundcard listed as an active output? If not you need to get into the card's setup and the Audio setup of the OS.

Next: File>Prefernces, MIDI (in the middle) and check that the "MIDI Thru Active" box is ticked. Back to main screen,

"Devices" >VST Instruments and you should get a dark "box"? Click in the box and find Halion (One?) . I then hacked about a bit (well! I SAID I was a C dunce!) and found "Jazz Kit" and my external Evo Ekeys 49 played it. You say you can trigger MIDI from the qwerty? I assume you mean you get a bar, probably orange, bottom right?

There is also a thing called "Drum Editor" that looks brill'. Don't know HTF that works!

Note also that any changes you make to your sound card setup will require a re boot of Cubase before it will implement them.

Dave.
 
Thanks for the reply.
I'm using Cubase LE 5 on a Lenovo T400 computer with WindowsXP. I'm using a Tascam US-200 box to run my instruments into the USB port.
So in Cubase, under 'Devices'-->'Device Setup...' I have one input (the tascam) and 2 outputs (the tascam and Microsoft GS wavetable SW synth) I assume the Microsoft one is my soundcard?
Under 'File'-->'Preferences'-->MIDI, "MIDI thru active" was not checked, so I have now checked it.
Under 'Devices' there is no option to select 'VST instruments'
I've managed to add an instrument track as HALionONE and opened up the Rock Drum Kit (there are a couple options), and I am able to open up the keyboard thing at the bottom and it shows me pressing keys when I press them. How can I program the different drums to these keys?
 
Venz said:
Thanks for the reply.
I'm using Cubase LE 5 on a Lenovo T400 computer with WindowsXP. I'm using a Tascam US-200 box to run my instruments into the USB port.
So in Cubase, under 'Devices'-->'Device Setup...' I have one input (the tascam) and 2 outputs (the tascam and Microsoft GS wavetable SW synth) I assume the Microsoft one is my soundcard?
Under 'File'-->'Preferences'-->MIDI, "MIDI thru active" was not checked, so I have now checked it.
Under 'Devices' there is no option to select 'VST instruments'
I've managed to add an instrument track as HALionONE and opened up the Rock Drum Kit (there are a couple options), and I am able to open up the keyboard thing at the bottom and it shows me pressing keys when I press them. How can I program the different drums to these keys?
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You are approaching the end of my knowledge!
One thing. I do not think you want Wave Table. My MIDI comes from "Windows MIDI Delta 1/2" where Delta is my PCI sound card. I bet you want "Windows MIDI Tascam 200 1/2" or similar. Make sure (I think!) that the Tascam is the MIDI device in XP > Sounds and Audio Devices Properties in Control Panel.

Cubase Essential 4 is an 80quid version and LE5 is a cut down freebie so I could well be telling you wrong!
I have LE5 on another machine but I can't get at that atmo.

Anybody else help here?

Dave.
 
Ok, you should not need to do anything in preferences. Well, under Event Display(mind you I am on Cubase 7 so this may be different)>MIDI you would want to select 'Default Edit Action' to be 'Open Drum Editor'. This will open the drum editor when you double click on the event. Anyway,

To open a Instrument track in LE5, you have no other option than to go with Project>Add Track>Instrument... Select the VSTi from there. Then you need to select a preset within HALionONE to enable the sound. Your 'Virtual Keyboard' should play these notes. I am not sure there is any way to program the 'Virtual Keyboard', but you can manually write them within the 'Drum Editor'. Use the 'pencil' tool to create an event in the project window. Then double click on it. It will bring up the Drum Editor (if you changed the preference earlier) or the Key Editor if you haven't. Either way, you can program the drums from there.
 
ecc83 said:
You are approaching the end of my knowledge!
One thing. I do not think you want Wave Table. My MIDI comes from "Windows MIDI Delta 1/2" where Delta is my PCI sound card. I bet you want "Windows MIDI Tascam 200 1/2" or similar. Make sure (I think!) that the Tascam is the MIDI device in XP > Sounds and Audio Devices Properties in Control Panel.

Cubase Essential 4 is an 80quid version and LE5 is a cut down freebie so I could well be telling you wrong!
I have LE5 on another machine but I can't get at that atmo.

Anybody else help here?

Dave.
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The ASIO device really doesn't matter in this case. He is only trying to get sounds from Cubase. Though, if the outputs are not connected to what he is listening to, then...

That does bring up a question. Have you monitors setup that are connected to your Tascam interface (best way)? Or, are you trying to listen via your laptop speakers? If laptop speakers, then you will need to select the internal card via Devices>Device Setup...>VST Audio System>ASIO drop down menu to whatever card your lappy uses.
 
I do not remember XP so much anymore, so I can't give you direct info as to what it uses as a default (internal) sound card. In W7 it is ASIO DirectX Full Duplex Driver...
 
"That does bring up a question. Have you monitors setup that are connected to your Tascam interface (best way)? Or, are you trying to listen via your laptop speakers? If laptop speakers, then you will need to select the internal card via Devices>Device Setup...>VST Audio System>ASIO drop down menu to whatever card your lappy uses."

I did start out by asking the OP if he was getting audio thru Cubase. That was before I knew about an external AI but the question is still valid.

As I say I HAVE LE5 but I shan't be able to get on it until much later today.

Dave.
 
All good. :) The question really doesn't matter from the DAW standpoint. Windows XP ASIO or whatever driver is the thing I can't be clear with. I have LE5 on my laptop. It is W7 though.
 
It works!

Thanks guys for all your replies, the info was helpful. After playing around with every possible button I could find I eventually got it going. The issue was that the "Input Routing" selection on the track was not connected and needed to be selected as "all MIDI inputs". It's true that you have to have every little thing in place for things to function in Cubase. It was miraculous when I finally heard a drum sound after hours of frustration lol.

Thanks again for the help everyone, I will probably have more questions as recording progresses.

Venz
 
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