Midi Connections in cubase

[Bobcat102122]

Earlier I posted a question about not being able to hear midi sounds within cubase. I noticed that mi MIDI out cable was attached while trying to play back MIDI files, and I am thinking this might be a problem. The only two options for MIDI playback are my sound card "SBlive!Midi out" and "MROS". what is MROS?
if I have a midi cable connected will all midi data be sent through it automatically? In my other programs I have the option of choosing internal play back through "SBlive GM synth a" or somethjing like that, and it works just fine. But in cubase the only options I have are the ones stated above. I have the same application on a second computer which also has the same sound card, and MIDI works fine. However on this computer I have no midi cables connected whatsoever. Any Ideas??? thanks

Bobcat

 

[JimH]

There is a little program separate from the main Cubase application called "Setup MME" This allows you to enable or disable your MIDI ports. Go into that program and make sure all your SBLive ports are enabled. If they're not, they won't show up in Cubase.

I'm not familiar with SBLive, but I have a Turtle Beach Montego II and I'm assuming they're similar in that they have two MIDI ports. An internal MIDI port plays the GM synth in the card and an external port sends MIDI over the cable. Just having the cable connected will not cause MIDI to be send automatically. You need to enable the port in "Setup MME" and then you need to select that port within Cubase for the particular track.

MROS is some kind of MIDI path internal to the Cubase program itself, like an invisible MIDI cable. It's for passing MIDI around from one part of the program to another. For example, if you want the input to the MIDI processor to be one of the tracks you already recorded, you would specify MROS as its input. (I think MROS stands for something like MIDI Realtime Operating System)

Jim