Holly Poop! Here We Go Again....midi!!!

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Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
Member Since: May 10, 2002

Midi makes me crazy it really does!

The scenerio....

In Cubase 4 have half a dozen midi tracks going out through Halion 1 player assigned to tracks. Sounds are there, good sounds. Midi functions work well, quantisize, fixed velocity... ok fine. I also have a dozen maybe audio tracks in the mix.

Ok in the mixer I adjust the volume of one of the midi tracks and they all change volume...drasticaly! Not the faders, they stay put. What the HELLO? is going on now?

Silence! I kill you midi! Skip the klondyke bar! I do it just for fun!

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Since: Mar 03, 2008


Mar 21, 2008 02:04 pm

If you have them assigned to tracks(could you tell me how you did this?) the first track will likely act like a main buss as if you were using auxiliary sends.

Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
Member
Since: May 10, 2002


Mar 21, 2008 04:24 pm

Well, I don't know if I know enough to explain it. Track one is a midi track that has kick drum hits recorded on it as midi messages. Instead of the track being assigned to windows gm midi out, it is assigned to Halion which has a number of sampled drum kits in it. I pick a drum kit and the track outputs the sound of a kick drum. Track two is the same configuration except it has snare drum midi messages recorded on it. On down the road we go for about 6 tracks dedicated to different drum sounds. A halon "group" track is automatically created which all of the tracks are output to.

Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002


Mar 21, 2008 09:34 pm

They are probably all assigned to the same midi channel and that makes them work as one unit. They each need to have an individual channel to work independently from one another.

I know, pain in the but it is indeed. Another work around is to adjust the volume of the audio or synth portion of each track as that will bypass the midi thing. I generally freeze the tracks and then adjust them as audio tracks.

Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
Member
Since: May 10, 2002


Mar 24, 2008 08:41 pm

I guess I'm getting spoiled. The software does so much I expected it to handle each track seperately. Really dumb of me to complain. Recorded the tracks off the Roland kit, got everything all lined up in midi (talk about easy compared to slicing, streatching etc. audio), Got the velocities all where I wanted them and did an export/import audio into the project and walla!

I'll have to learn freezing midi next. Midicycles!

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