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Ace in the whole
Member Since: Nov 24, 2004

Hello to the faithful.

I have a small quandry on my hands, and I would be honored by any pointers that could lead me down the right road.

I have a Korg with about 18 discs full of songs I wrote 10 years ago. I am workign currently with Cubase SE.

Is there any way for me to import the songs into cubase, multitracked as in the keyboard sequencer, so I might be able to fully produce them?

I am also not sure how to get the sounds to transfer, even when I do. i have found a patch with all the right names, but they are not in the banks.

Thank you in advance for any and all help in this matter.

Peace be to you.
M

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Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002

Jan 21, 2006 05:42 pm

When you say disc's full of songs. Are you talking about midi sequances, or are these actual audio tracks?

If they are midi sequances you will need to have the Korg hooked up via midi to playback the sounds and record them as audio. The other alternative is going to be finding either a hardware or sftware synth you have that will have similar patches to use for playing the sounds in the sequance.

I have done that with many old sequances I have taht were done using very old synths. I simply work my way through the patches or create my own in a soft synth and re-record it.

Ace in the whole
Member
Since: Nov 24, 2004

Jan 22, 2006 02:01 am

They are midi sequances that have been formated by the 01W, so they all fit within the 10 song sections that is provided on each side of the floppy disc. I have 16 track cabability to record within on each song. I di all the sequancing internally in the keyboard alone, with only the stock sounds.

I need to find out how to go through the process of trying to get them recorded in cubase.

I have the keyboard hooked up to my DAW, and I currently use it to trigger and record other midi sounds I have in soft synths etc on my hard drive. But I am unable to get the stock sounds of the Korg to play through a cubase channel, even though I have downloaded the names... I don't get any sound out of them.

I am using a midisport UBS so I can use the Korg as a midi controller, but I guess I need to reroute more midi cables back to the keyboard.. then back to the hard drive again to get the stock sounds to play?

I'm a little lost.

Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002

Jan 22, 2006 02:58 pm

Yep, the sounds of the Korg will only play out from the Korg itself. Having Cubase recognize the names is only that, just seeing the names of the patches. The sounds are still in the Korg only and will never be part of Cubase or any other soft synth. You will need to have a midi out cable coming vrom the midi interface back to the Korg which will then playback the sounds from the Korg. For that though you will need to have the audio outputs from the Korg routed through a mixer or directly into you audio interface so Cubase will be able to record the audio from the Korg. If they are multi track sequances though and you wish to keep them as seperate tracks of audio you will need to go through a little trouble as in recording each track of audio seperately into Cubase. Otherwise you can just send the mixdown of the stereo output to Cubase. But if you wish to get into a little more complex mixing of the tracks it is a track by track recording you must do.

Let me know if you need help with doing that.

Ace in the whole
Member
Since: Nov 24, 2004

Jan 22, 2006 10:19 pm

Thanks a thousand times Noize!!

I may just take you up on that when I get ready to move on it.

Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002

Jan 22, 2006 10:36 pm

No probelm. Advice is easy to give out. And that is a task I have done way to many times over the years.

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