Please help the total newbie - Cubase and S80

[lamarampa]

I teach music in a Community College. The guy who has taught electronic music has run off to a new job, leaving all the equipment in an unconnected pile. I, a total electronics newbie, have been detailed to set it all up again and (gulp) teach a class with it. The equipment consists of Cubase VST and a Yamaha S80.

Can someone please tell me how to set up the MIDI parameters on the synth and Cubase so that I hear the metronome *and* get playback through the synth. No combination I have come up with works, and I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that either (a) there is an equipment fault or (b) I am a moron. Experience shows (b) to be the likely choice.

Once I've got the initial setup right, I'm prety sure I'll be OK - but, well, HELLLLPPP!!!

 

[giraffe]

i'm sorry i cant really help except to say that you should post this (or something similar) in the computer section also

 

[jake-owa]

It would help if you tell us how exactly the MIDI cableas are hooked up.

There are better places for the question though.

The MIDI section of this forum or a cubase group would be better.

The basic thing is that you have the MIDI in and out hooked to cubase and probably the echoback turned off in the S80. Then it's probably a matter of setting up a MIDI channel in Cubase to play the metronome sound and selecting another recording channel in Cubase sending it's output to another MIDI channel in the S80.

I don't use Cubase and I haven't used the S80 so good luck.

 

[ssscientist]

Can someone please tell me how to set up the MIDI parameters on the synth and Cubase so that I hear the metronome *and* get playback through the synth.

First, set up a blank song in Cubase. Then plug the in and out of the S80 into the interface with the midi in of the 'board to the midi out of the computer and vice versa.

Then, and this is very important, go to the 'global' or 'utility' page inside the S80 and look for a parameter called 'local on/off'. Set this to 'off' -- this will break the connection between the keyboard and the sounds inside.

Then set up a midi track in Cubase - you should be able to do this thru the drop-down menu item labeled 'midi'. Set the midi channel on the keyboard to 1, and select the first 'Multi' patch and initialize it. You should now be able to record your first midi track by using Cubase like an ordinary tape recorder.

The metronome will probably be set up to come thru the audio interface, and if there are speakers there to hear the keyboard you should be able to get the metronome going thru the speakers.

 

[ssscientist]

And here are links to two good articles on midi basics - part one and part two .