Problem recording midi with Cubase 4 LE

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Hey everyone, just starting to get my studio set up. I bought a Presonus FP10 and have been using it for a while now, works great! Anyways, I have been using Sony Acid but don't really care for the interface too much, so I loaded Cubase 4 LE that came with my FP10. Everything seems to work ok except when I record midi. Hooking up the keyboard to my comp works just fine I can hear all the synths when I play and it sounds great. But when I arm a track to record and press the record button, I see the cursor move along the timeline, but when I play any notes they show up on the timeline, then when I release them they all shoot back to the start. Its like it reads all the notes I play but doesn't read the timing in between them or something. So when I stop the recording and play it back it just plays all the notes that I previously played in one big split second chord, then thats it... I'm confused. There is no auto quantinizing on or anything. Any help would be great, I'm a newb with cubase!

Thanks in advance, Joe.
 
Ok, what's happened is you have 'auto q' turned on.

Go to the transport panel (one with record, play, etc) and deselect auto q. Auto q will automatically quantise your input notes to whatever you have set the quantise to. The quantise is set along the top. Play around with these settings until you get an idea of how it works.
 
Hey sorry, I don't even remember you posting a reply, I took a break from recording for a while due to school, but now im back at it and trying to figure this out again! I've played with the AutoQ setting and it doesn't change anything... still don't know whats up, i've tried pushing all kinds of buttons and messing with stuff, but nothing seems to work! If anyone has any suggestions or experience with this prob please let me know. Thank you!
 
LiquidDigital said:
Hey sorry, I don't even remember you posting a reply, I took a break from recording for a while due to school, but now im back at it and trying to figure this out again! I've played with the AutoQ setting and it doesn't change anything... still don't know whats up, i've tried pushing all kinds of buttons and messing with stuff, but nothing seems to work! If anyone has any suggestions or experience with this prob please let me know. Thank you!
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I have actually heard of this problem. Give the official cubase forums (cubase.net) a search, there are a few helpful answers on there. It is something I hear about but luckily never experience.
 
I've just loaded Cubase and tried to replicate your problem.

I've got a keyboard connected via a Firepod with midi, and another going to PC via USB.

In both cases I got what I expected . . . a successfully recorded and playable midi track.

I'm not sure what to suggest, except I've experienced a similar problem, but in Logic, not Cubase, and only when I've tried to synchronise a midi track recorded on an external sequencer with Logic (so that the sequencer drives Logic).

I've not experienced this problem with recording real-time directly into either Cubase or Logic.

But . . . it may have something to do with where Cubase is getting its timing from. Check your synchronisation settings. Go to Transport/Sync setup. On the dialog box that appears, make sure that "Timecode source" is set to 'none', that "Midi timecode settings" is 'not connected' and that "Send midi clock" has no ports checked. At a later stage you may want some of this functionality .. . but for the moment your most important thing is to get midi recording properly.
 
Solved! Yay! I checked the cubase forums and found the answer... you were right gecko, it was a problem with timing. I just went into the device setup then checked a box that said something like "sync with computer time stamp". And it worked perfectly. I'm excited! I still need to learn the ropes of Cubase though... I'm much more familiar with Sony Acid at this point. I'm still trying to decide which one I should stick with.

Thanks for the help both of you.
 
I wish I would've seen this thread earlier. I had the same problem and could've told you how to fix it. Oh well. I'm glad you got it fixed and didn't give up.:)
 
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