QWERTY midi to Cubase

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Hi all,

OK, I'm stuck. I'm trying to use the QWERTY keyboard as a MIDI input device to add notes on a MIDI track in CUBASE.

I've looked around and have installed a few programs (Virtual Midi keyboard and QWERTY Keyboard Midi 1.1 and others), all of which do produce the default paino sound when you hit a key on your key board. So I assume from this that there *is* actually a MIDI output from these programs.

My problem is getting this MIDI output to talk to Cubase.

In the Settings of Virtual Midi Keyboard I there is a dropdown labelled Midi-port with the options of "None" or "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth". I assume this is choose *where* to send midi info

In Cubase, no idea.

Can anyone help with this? I have to sort it out before I get on the plane ;)

Cheers,
FM
 
You need an internal midi router. Midi yoke is a good free one
 
Another option would be to step input the parts into Cubase with your mouse.

In Cubase, if you go up top to the Devices menu and choose Device Setup there are some settings you might check.
 
altitude909 said:
You need an internal midi router. Midi yoke is a good free one
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If you're using a Mac, MidiPipe is free and can perform a lot of tasks like routing, limiting, triggering etc...

The trouble might be in getting anything you want to recognize the QWERTY keyboard as an input device, and maybe one of those apps pure.fusion was using could be used as in combination with an app like MidiPipe. I don't know MidiOX but my understanding is that it does similar stuff.

That would probably do it. I know when I go in Cubase after I start MididPipe that MidiPipe's inputs and outputs appear in Cubase in the Device Setup.
 
yeah I read this and tried to load it, but the install failed on Windows 7.

Suggest any others?

FM
 
dintymoore said:
Another option would be to step input the parts into Cubase with your mouse.

In Cubase, if you go up top to the Devices menu and choose Device Setup there are some settings you might check.
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Yeah that was plan A, to just use the mouse. But I can't get any creative flow hapening unless I can hit a keyboard in time with the music and experiment.

Yeah I looked at Cubase MIDI options; I'm a bit lost.

I just installed MIDI Yoke by disabling UAC in Windows7. I'll see if I can make this work....

Cheers all,
FM
 
The basic idea is that you get whatever QWERTY program you have up and running.

Then you open Cubase and on a MIDI track choose that QWERTY program as the input.

Remember there's the help section in Cubase (upper right) and you can open the manuals. The Operation Manual (in Documentation) is usually where I go, and straight to the last pages, the Index. That will have listings of the pages for things like "MIDI Inputs".
 
dintymoore said:
The basic idea is that you get whatever QWERTY program you have up and running.

Then you open Cubase and on a MIDI track choose that QWERTY program as the input.

Remember there's the help section in Cubase (upper right) and you can open the manuals. The Operation Manual (in Documentation) is usually where I go, and straight to the last pages, the Index. That will have listings of the pages for things like "MIDI Inputs".
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Yes. Thats what I though, originally.

I got MIDI Yoke running, and got thoughput to Cubase. So effectively I'm going, but one of the products is making a regular pink noise sound.
I'll find out which one.

Cheers,
FM
 
pure.fusion said:
yeah I read this and tried to load it, but the install failed on Windows 7.

Suggest any others?

FM
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Midi yoke? Must not have done something right, works fine on win7 64bit here. Maybe you didnt run it as administrator (right click on setup program, run as administrator)
 
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