Good to be back, cubase 6 question

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After a long absence (medical,it's all good !) I'm back in my new home studio. I got everything hooked back up and got everything communicating with each other (cubase and Yamaha MM6....wow what a pain in the you know what !) but I have what is probably a stupidly simple problem that I must be to brain dead to understand.

This is whats happening...

I recorded a MIDI piece into cubase using my MM6. I then "dissolved" the part into separate channels, so far so good.

I created a new audio track and armed it and checked the monitor button and recorded a guitar part. The problem is that Cubase is recording all the other tracks into my new audio track along with the guitar.

When I last had this all set up and running I did not have this problem so I think its a setting somewhere. Anyone care to set me in the right direction?
Thanks

R
 
Check to make sure you have the correct input bus selected in the Inspector Window for the channel you are recording to. Set up the bus in VST Connections. :)
 
Yes I have it set to "stereo bus" that's the only one available. Strange, I just tried it with audio tracks only and it didn't do it. Maybe I need to make my midi into audio and then work with it?
 
A mic'd guitar would be a mono instrument. Go to VST Connections, create a new Mono Bus, and select it on your guitar track. It kind of sounds like your input has 'stereo out' selected as input bus. Wasn't even sure that was possible....
 
Thanks, still the same thing. I wouldn't mind turning the MIDI into audio as I need to do that anyway. The only way I know to turn midi into audio is to add a audio track, enable record and solo the MIDI track in real time, one at a time. This is the only way I have found that will work for me unless someone knows a quicker way as I have had no luck figuring out audio mixdown with midi

Thanks for your interest
R
 
I just solo the track, set markers ('P' will set locators at start and end of selected event), and Export Audio Mixdown. In the export screen, select wav 32bit float, and check the 'Pool' and 'Audio' Track boxes. This will place the export back into your project and add the new track for you, thus skipping a step of reimporting the track.
 
Yea I must have something not set right. When I try to do it that way it just writes 2 flat lines. No joy yet but let me work on it. I chose cubase over everything else because it's been rock solid over the years but boy is it hard to get back into for a poor 'ole guitar player like me.

Hope I can post some new stuff soon, great to be back here and if you all want you can here some semi-popular stuff at soundclick. I release under the name of Mothers Bad Son.

Thanks again, I'll post my progress. It should work just as you say but it don't.

R
 
Sounds like something is funny with your input or output bus's. Check what is up in VST Connections, and post some screen shots.
 
To turn MIDI into Audio, you need a sound source. Your Yamaha is the most obviouse choice, but you can use VSTi's also. To use your yamaha, you need to play the midi channel and output it to the keyboard, then use the Analog Outs of the keyboard (probably 1/4" plugs) to bring them back into your computer through a stereo interface. Which brings me back to my question earlier; what are you recording your guitar with?
 
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