Setting up midi for VST

[Traeve]

Hi this is my first post on this forum and would really appreciate some help.

I normally record with real instruments or samples but have just bought an Axiom midi controller keyboard and have started using Cubase instead of Adobe Audition.

I've also just bought Garritan Personal Orchestra VST instruments software which comes with a virtual player. When I load an instrument section ie Strings, different instruments appear on the 16 channels in the player module but only the sound in the channel 1 window can be played via my keyboard.

If I change the ch2 window to ch1 I can play that sound etc but what I would like to do is select a sound and play it on it's own channel rather than keep selecting ch1. How do I make this possible please ?

Hope that makes sense and I hope someone can help.

Also can I set up a midi track to record VST instruments triggered with my kbd in Cubase or do I have to record the audio onto an audio track. Basically I would like to edit the parameters after I've recorded it as you can with midi.

Many thanks

Traeve.

 

[rob aylestone]

In the inspector panel, you can route the incoming midi to any destination midi channel, you don't need to change things in the VST instrument. Cubase will let you send to individual channels or all. Is that what you want to do?

 

[DM60]

OK, for a VSTi with multi channels, you are going to have to do this (not sure how it is done in Cubase, so this is basic):

You put the VSTi on one track. You can have MIDI/Channel for that track, but only one. We will say channel 1
Then you setup another track, make it channel 2, route it to the track with the VSTi, that will talk to all instruments on channel 2.

Each track will have its own channel to talk to the VSTis instruments assigned to that channel. If you don't want to have multi channels, then assign in the VSTi all instruments to a single channel. Say you have 5, then put all of them on channel 1, then one track will talk to all instruments. But you lose control over the instruments this way.

Hope this helps.

 

[Traeve]

Thanks Guys, I'll try your suggestions as soon as I get the opportunity.

 

[jonesg]

Try reading this, to set up 8 multipart VST in cubase, it should all go through channel 1, that acts like a bus.
But you keep separate control over each instrument.
Otherwise you'd have to run 8 instances of the VST independently and gobble up RAM.
https://www.spectrasonics.net/support/knowledgebase_view_topic.php?id=466&categoryID=88

I'm trying to do this now with cubase8 and Omnisphere2, it ...almost...works but something is still missing.
You'll also see templates for cubase 5 , I tried that and it doesn't work with version8.
I tried the spectrasonic (omnisphere) template for Reaper and it worked very well but I really wanted to use Cubase.

Qui Robinez also has a video on youtube doing the same thing but I find it too quick to follow. Maybe you can make sense of it.
Go full screen and Hi-Definition to read the directions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd23OjFZjz8