midi file doesn't play back?

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Hi,

I have recently recorded backing tracks to use together with a click in a live situation.

My audio files play back perfectly, but my midi files sometimes don't. I think it has got something to do with stereo or mono routing.
Some PA's do not play back my midi files? When I play it back through a normal amplifier it does work? I cannot figure out why that is?

Can some one help, please. Sorry the urgency but we have got an important gig coming up, :)

Thank you for any suggestions
 
Hi,

I have recently recorded backing tracks to use together with a click in a live situation.

My audio files play back perfectly, but my midi files sometimes don't. I think it has got something to do with stereo or mono routing.
Some PA's do not play back my midi files? When I play it back through a normal amplifier it does work? I cannot figure out why that is?

Can some one help, please. Sorry the urgency but we have got an important gig coming up, :)

Thank you for any suggestions
All PA's will playback your midi files but you need to convert them to audio first. Midi files are just data, like the scroll to a player piano. You have to convert the midi files to audio by using controllers, musical instruments or MIDI-compatible software before you can hear them. Convert them to audio and record them to a cd first and they'll be fine through any PA.
 
As NYMorningstar said... the midi file is only data, imagine an electric guitar with no amp, it doesn't sound, you add the amp and there you go, in the Midi case you need a virtual instrument, that would be your "amp", Midis are more than that, but is only to understand it a little more.

How do you set Midi on Cubase?

Add your midi into a "Midi Track", try to avoid the "Instrument Track" (just because i don't know how to it works haha).

Press F11 and select your virtual instrument, Cubase have many, not very good quality, but good enough to work.

At the left panel of the Midi track you have an "output", well, select the instrument you loaded. And there you go. Now it should sound the selected midi file.

Cheers :drunk:
 
Add your midi into a "Midi Track", try to avoid the "Instrument Track" (just because i don't know how to it works haha).
Shouldn't you add them as midi tracks then slide them onto instrument tracks?
There would be no audio until you do this with LE 4.
 
No, there's no need to slide them to an Instrument Track, in fact i have never used that. I'm sure there is something good about them, but i'm use to use the Midi Track only.

In cubase LE 4 is the same thing (i'm 99.98% sure), if you click on the Midi track (to highlight it) appears the left panel with the input and output, in the output select the virtual instrument you want to associate with the Midi data.
 
Hmmm.
I've had to add instrument tracks and slide the midis onto them in Cubase LE 4.
That's the only way I've been able to get them to play, so far.
 
it can be done either way. An instrument track is just composed of a midi track and a VST instrument. You can still do it manually (i.e. make a midi track, add a VST instrument to the rack, and then assign the output to that instrument) but the instrument track just automates this process
 
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