Hello, I use VanBasco as a MIDI player and a Ketron SD2 expander to make the sounds more pleasant; additionally, I use Cubase LE 5 for recording. This latter operation, that is, recording audio tracks, I perform without difficulty using an external sound card with my laptop. In practice, I play the VLC player which provides the backing track, and with the microphone, having started the recording of two tracks in Cubase, I carry out the recording. And so far I find no difficulty; however, when I use VanBasco to play MIDI, I also have no difficulty playing it and interfacing it with the Ketron, which sounds wonderful, but wanting to import the MIDI into Cubase and playing it, I hear no sound at all. Furthermore, I don't know how to record both the backing track and the vocals; in short, I would like to achieve the same result that I have with the audio tracks mentioned above, namely running VanBasco and recording in Cubase at the same time. It would be really great to succeed in this, is it possible? Could you give me a hand? Thank you.
MIDI basics have declared the instrument type for each track within the file. In a MIDI file, there are 16 tracks. Each of these will be an instrument. An expander like the Ketron you bought allows you to identify the instruments for each track and replace them with better samples, so that the final sound is better than what the computer's MIDI audio can provide. Cubase, as well as Sonar, Logic, Pro Tools, and company, are digital audio workstations used to create professional products. Out of the box, there is nothing set; that is, by importing the MIDI into these DAWs, the data will be split into as many tracks as there are instrument tracks contained within the MIDI file, but you will have to be the one to assign the sampled instruments to each MIDI track, appropriately adjusting all parameters in the VST and creating a real MIX. For those who know how to do it, the results in terms of sound quality are INFINITELY superior to what you could obtain with any expander, but it requires a lot of skill and, above all, a lot of money spent on libraries. Just to say that there is no possibility of explaining "how to do it" on a forum.
MIDI files have declared the instrument type for each track within the file. In a MIDI file, there are 16 tracks. Each of these will be an instrument. An expander like the Ketron you bought allows you to identify the instruments for each track and replace them with better samples, so that the final sound is better than what the computer's MIDI audio can provide. Cubase, as well as Sonar, Logic, Pro Tools, and company, are digital audio workstations used to create professional products. Out of the box, nothing is set; that is, by importing the MIDI into these DAWs, the data will be split into as many tracks as there are instrument tracks contained within the MIDI file, but you will have to be the one to assign the sampled instruments to each MIDI track, appropriately adjusting all parameters in the VST and creating a real MIX. For those who know how to do it, the results in terms of sound quality are INFINITELY superior to what you could obtain with any expander, but it requires a lot of skill and, above all, a lot of money spent on libraries. Just to say that there is no possibility of explaining "how to do it" on a forum.
