Help setting Up LP Stage II on Cubase 6!!
Help setting Up LP Stage II on Cubase 6!!
Okay. I got an M-Audio device and I still couldn't record my LP on Cubase 6. So I'm gonna describe everything I did in the hopes that someone can possibly pick out where I'm erring and maybe lead me in the right direction, cause I really wanna get those PHAT sounds of the LP into my music! Okay first of all, I'm having no problem using the LP as a MIDI keyboard, it's very easy hooking it up using a USB cord- No problem there. I'm finding it very difficult however to play my LP on Cubase. So far I've tried the USB cable and I've hooked up a MIDI over USB cable which also was easy to set up the LP as a MIDI keyboard. Someone told me to try using an audio device so I got an m-audio fast track pro, I hooked up a midi cable from the midi out port on the LP to the Midi in port on the m-audio device, and then I hooked up a USB cable from the fast track to the USB port on my laptop (macbook pro 13" from July 2010) and although I could still use the LP as a MIDI keyboard, I still couldn't figure out how to play/record my LP on my cubase 6. Somebody please help, it's so frustrating cause I could've bought any MIDI keyboard but I spent an extra $1,000 on an LP Stage II for its sounds. Please Help! I appreciate it very much. Thanks!
Re: Help setting Up LP Stage II on Cubase 6!!
USB is fine for MIDI. The thing you need the fast track pro for is:
an AUDIO CABLE in addition to the MIDI cable.
MIDI is only instructional messages, like "play this note" or "set the filter cutoff to 50%" - it's not audio.
You want the MIDI so you can record, edit, and play back musical sequences and so on...
but in addition to this, you need to connect a 1/4" mono audio cable (a guitar cable) from the Line Out on the side of the Little Phatty, to one of the 1/4" inputs on the Fast Track Pro.
Then in Cubase, you want a MIDI track for your Midi, and an Audio track (with its input set to mono, to the input channel that the LP is physically connected to via the 1/4" instrument cable).
There are probably some easy help or tutorial files if you need further info on how to set up an audio track in Cubase to monitor/record a line input.
That's basically what you'll want to try doing, though...
Good luck, and have fun!
an AUDIO CABLE in addition to the MIDI cable.
MIDI is only instructional messages, like "play this note" or "set the filter cutoff to 50%" - it's not audio.
You want the MIDI so you can record, edit, and play back musical sequences and so on...
but in addition to this, you need to connect a 1/4" mono audio cable (a guitar cable) from the Line Out on the side of the Little Phatty, to one of the 1/4" inputs on the Fast Track Pro.
Then in Cubase, you want a MIDI track for your Midi, and an Audio track (with its input set to mono, to the input channel that the LP is physically connected to via the 1/4" instrument cable).
There are probably some easy help or tutorial files if you need further info on how to set up an audio track in Cubase to monitor/record a line input.
That's basically what you'll want to try doing, though...
Good luck, and have fun!