What I did wrong? Cannot hear external MIDI.

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I hope somebody can show me the light...

I have an Audiophile Delta 2496 Sound Card with the midi IN connected to the keyboard. I select "Midi IN Delta" in Cubase SX and nothing happens. I only get signal on the vumeters of SX when I select "All midi inputs". Why?

The same for the midi OUT. I have two external sound modules (TG500 and TR707) connected to the midi OUT of the sound card. I have no response from them when I select the "Midi OUT Delta" as the sound source on SX.
I only get sounds when I selct "SW: Wave tables GS" (or something like that) as Midi OUT in SX, which I believe it is a internal midi somewhere in my PC. Besides, this sounds come with really big latency. I only have latency in this configuration of midi, not in Audio (my problems of latency in Audio were solved thanks to the contribution of some people in this forum).

I would really appreciate any help to get sounds from my two external midi devices.

Thank you,

alejo.
 
Sure it helps! thank you for sending me the link. But my keyboard does not have Mdi in nor Midi thru. It only has two Midi outs.
Any ideas?
 
Hi Alejo,

The Audiophile 2496 doesn't contain any sounds by itself.
That is why when you select "Midi in Delta" you're not
hearing any sounds. This is because of the way you have it
hooked up.

Try connecting the midi out of your keyboard to the in of
the TG500. Then from the midi out of your TG500 to the in
of your Audiophile 2496. Then select "all midi inputs" for
the in of SX and select "Delta AP midi" for the out of SX.
Make sure your keyboard and TG500 are both set to
the same mid channels.

Try that and see what happens.

Mike
 
Txs a lot for your response.

Now I should update the information I get until now. I finally connected the device in such a way I get sounds. Midi out of the keyboard to midi in of the Sound Card, and midi out of the SC to midi in of the tone generator. The last problem was solved after selecting th right channels (txs again for the info).

Now I have a little question that maybe you will answer as kindly as always. I have the analog L/R outputs of the drum generator (TR 707) connected to one of the inputs of the mixer, to monitor the drums. Well, as long as I have this "permanent" input on the mixer when recording, every sound that I record in audio will be recorded also with the sounds of the drum generator. Unless I mute this input (and I don't monitor the drums), I will always record the drums together with the instrument I am recording(voice or guitars, for example).

Do you have any idea to get rid of this nasty effect?
 
thank you for asking that!!!!!!!!

actually the mixer is the device which was giving me most of the problems during setting the audio.

It is a Phonic pretty similar to this one, but simpler.

http://www.phonic.com/pod-mm1202xp_v1.2.htm

It has the same features of CTR RM, EFX, aux, etc. than mine.

Could be everything a problem of how I monitor the sounds through the mixer?
 
No problem!!

Yes, if you leave the TR707 mixer fader up when recording
another track, you will record the drums each time as you
know.

It appears that your mixer doesn't have seperate
monitoring system. If this is the case you will need
another small mixer or even an old 4-track cassette
machine to use as a monitoring system. This way you
can have the line out (left and right) of your Audiophile
2496 and the line outs of your midi gear hooked up to the
monitor system. Plug your headphones into that and
you will be able to monitor everything you record , but
only record what's plugged in to the Phonic mixer. This
way there will be no latency.

I used an old 4-track cassette recorder as a monitor
system when I first got into computer recording.

Maybe someone more familiar with the Phonic mixer,
may have another suggestion.

Hope that helps.

Mike
 
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