I'm a complete newbie to sound cards and music software. Can you help a damsel in distress?
1, Ive Creamware Scope fusion platform 3.1 b and the person helping me doesnt come now so I have a good soundcard and I dont understand anything about it. Is there a DVD or videos or similar to help me? I dont understand the manual at all that is under "help"
2. I can get WAV sound in Wavelab and Cubase SX3 but I cant get any MIDI sound and there is nothing in the list in
Cubase SX3 MIDI device manager(Im trying to learn that with videos as well) so I suspect that the problem is with the Scope.
3. Similarly I have connected my music keyboard with a lead from MIDI out to Scope MIDI in and the other from MIDI in to SCope MIDI out and there are no little dots even in Cubase
I do hope someone can help
Thank you
pesha
No Midi sound
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hubird
you really need to put some time (days?) into reading the manual.
Midi is Midi (musical instruments digital interface and Audio is Audio, speaking about 'Midi sound' is confusing and doesn't make your problem clear.
Learn to setup a basic project in your Scope, with help of the manual.
You will need to care for the Midi as well as the Audio connections...they are called Midi Source and Destination modules, and there's ASIO Source and Destination modules for the audio.
You can find them in the apropriate Scope main menus.
Cubase will 'see' those modules (kinda plugs), but you have to have your dedicated Scope project (xxx.pro) opened first .
Scope isn't 'just' a regular soundcard, you will have to put some time in it, as Stardust also says
Midi is Midi (musical instruments digital interface and Audio is Audio, speaking about 'Midi sound' is confusing and doesn't make your problem clear.
Learn to setup a basic project in your Scope, with help of the manual.
You will need to care for the Midi as well as the Audio connections...they are called Midi Source and Destination modules, and there's ASIO Source and Destination modules for the audio.
You can find them in the apropriate Scope main menus.
Cubase will 'see' those modules (kinda plugs), but you have to have your dedicated Scope project (xxx.pro) opened first .
Scope isn't 'just' a regular soundcard, you will have to put some time in it, as Stardust also says
I really understand your comment that Creamware isn't a regular sound card and I am making some strides. and I have had a go at reading the manual. I confess I only read it for one day.
What I have done is record a midi file on a musical keyboard and then import it into cubase but ...through your help...I can get it to playback through a musical keyboard but not through the speakers. I cna get the WAV files playing through the speakers.
Thank you agina for your help
pesha
What I have done is record a midi file on a musical keyboard and then import it into cubase but ...through your help...I can get it to playback through a musical keyboard but not through the speakers. I cna get the WAV files playing through the speakers.
Thank you agina for your help
pesha
well, you have recorded the midi notes from the keyboard and on playback the Sequencer just plays these notes back to the keyboard, simply as it's connected to that channel.
In your routing window there is a (virtual cable) connection from 'Sequencer source' to 'Midi Out', that is the data path Cubase uses to send it's notes to the keyboard.
Sequencer source is called a 'virtual' or 'software' port, while 'Midi Out' means the real world physical connector on your card. You'll quickly get used to distinguish the 2 types (there are no more), but in the beginning it's a bit confusing.
you don't mention any Creamware synths, but in case you have at least one, add it to the project window, connect it's output to the mixer and it's midi input to the afforementioned 'Sequencer source'. A 'source' connector in the window accepts multiple connections, a 'destination' only one.
now on playback both your external keyboard synth and the internal Scope synth should play - not sure if that sounds good, but it's just to demonstrate the principle.
The thing to learn from this setup is that whenever you record the midi notes, you later can exchange the synth that plays them back
if you wanted to record the audio from your external synth, so you don't need the instrument for playback later, you'd connect the audio output of the synth to Scope's audio input connector.
In the routing window that's a virtual cable from 'Analog In' to 'Asio destination' .
Cubase receives the audio on the same Asio number to which you connected the 'Analog input', so you have to setup an audio track in Cubase to exactly that Asio channel number.
In your project window you connect an 'Asio source' channel with the same number to your mixer.
This way your synth's output is converted to digital, forwarded to Cubase via the Asio system and later played back via Asio into the Scope mixer, from where it goes to your speakers. It's the same logic as a cassette tape recorder...
cheers, Tom
In your routing window there is a (virtual cable) connection from 'Sequencer source' to 'Midi Out', that is the data path Cubase uses to send it's notes to the keyboard.
Sequencer source is called a 'virtual' or 'software' port, while 'Midi Out' means the real world physical connector on your card. You'll quickly get used to distinguish the 2 types (there are no more), but in the beginning it's a bit confusing.
you don't mention any Creamware synths, but in case you have at least one, add it to the project window, connect it's output to the mixer and it's midi input to the afforementioned 'Sequencer source'. A 'source' connector in the window accepts multiple connections, a 'destination' only one.
now on playback both your external keyboard synth and the internal Scope synth should play - not sure if that sounds good, but it's just to demonstrate the principle.
The thing to learn from this setup is that whenever you record the midi notes, you later can exchange the synth that plays them back
if you wanted to record the audio from your external synth, so you don't need the instrument for playback later, you'd connect the audio output of the synth to Scope's audio input connector.
In the routing window that's a virtual cable from 'Analog In' to 'Asio destination' .
Cubase receives the audio on the same Asio number to which you connected the 'Analog input', so you have to setup an audio track in Cubase to exactly that Asio channel number.
In your project window you connect an 'Asio source' channel with the same number to your mixer.
This way your synth's output is converted to digital, forwarded to Cubase via the Asio system and later played back via Asio into the Scope mixer, from where it goes to your speakers. It's the same logic as a cassette tape recorder...
cheers, Tom