Slight Midi Glitch...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2006 11:52 am
Snake_Bite
Wannabe Producer/Tech Student
Member Since: Aug 11, 2005
Ive got a roland mt-32 that im using with cubase sx V2. i hook it up to my delta 1010lt soundcard via midi cable.
the only problem is, when i set the channel on the midi track in cubase to (example) 2, it shows up on track 2 of the mt32, and likewise, tracks 3 in cubase is track 2 on the mt32. This isnt a major problem, still can use it fine, just a bit curious as to why its doing this.
appreciate any cmments, cheers fellas
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Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Aug 17, 2006 09:18 pm The MT-32 should be able to playback 8 channels of instruments plus 1 channel of drums.
I wonder if it is possible that the multi timbrel part is switched off.
Have a look at this place, www.queststudios.com/roland/roland.html they have all the manuals and documentation for download.
I used one way back when doing early game stuff and it played back multiple parts fine. I honestly cant remember though if it had a setting to only recieve one channel though.
Are you sure you are setting the midi channel out for differant channels for each track in Cubase. AS in track one sends on channel 1, track 2 on channle 2 and so on? Just thinking out loud now.
Snake_BiteWannabe Producer/Tech StudentMember
Since: Aug 11, 2005
Aug 18, 2006 11:01 am sorry, i said the rong thing in my first post, what i meant was, the channels are coming out one number below what i set them to in cubase on the mt-32
i.e.
channel 2 in cubase goes to mt32 channel 1
channel 3 in cubase goes to mt32 channel 2
channel 4 in cubase goes to mt32 channel 3
etc.
sorry about the typo
Aug 18, 2006 01:34 pm what does channel 1 in cubase goto?...this is strange.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Aug 18, 2006 08:08 pm Oh I see. I think that is just the way the midi implementation is set up on the MT-32. BAck then it was odd how some of the gear read the channel number from certain other pieces of hardware or software. Some would read normally and others would read one number higher or lower. It was the saem with patch assignments numbers as well. What you thought was patch 1 was actually patch 0 on the MT as it would read from 0 to 127 instead of 1 - 128. THe midi standard wasnt quite sorted when that piece of geaer came out so there will be some issues wehn using it with newer software. As long as it will still give you all 8 channels of sounds and the other channel of drums I think you will be fine. You will just have to get used to the odd number sequance. My JUno was the same way when Sonar was released. To bring up patch 1 I had to tell Sonar it was patch 0. Roland never had a fix for that.
