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Setting up your system
You might want to use even more instruments for playback.
If you do, simply connect MIDI Thru on the sound module to
MIDI In on the next instrument, and so on. In this hook-up,
you will always play the first keyboard when recording. But
you can still use all your devices for providing sounds on
playback.
Setting MIDI Thru and Local On/Off
In the “MIDI” section in the Preferences dialog (located on
the File menu under Windows and on the Cubase menu
under Mac OS X), you will find a setting called “MIDI Thru
Active”. This is related to a setting in your instrument
called “Local On/Off” or “Local Control On/Off”.
• If you use a MIDI keyboard instrument, as described earlier in
this chapter, MIDI Thru should be activated and that instru-
ment should be set to Local Off (sometimes called Local Con-
trol Off – see the instrument’s operation manual for details).
The MIDI signal from the keyboard will be recorded in Cubase
and at the same time be re-routed back to the instrument so
that you hear what you are playing, without the keyboard “trig-
gering” its own sounds.
• If you use a separate MIDI keyboard – one that does not pro-
duce any sounds itself – MIDI Thru in Cubase should also be
activated, but you don’t need to look for any Local On/Off set-
ting in your instruments.
• The only case where MIDI Thru should be deactivated is if you
use Cubase with only one keyboard instrument and that in-
strument cannot be set to Local Off mode.
• Note that MIDI Thru will be active only for those MIDI tracks
that are record enabled and/or have the Monitor button acti-
vated. See the chapter “Recording” in the Operation Manual
for more information.
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If you plan to use more than three sound sources, we
recommend that you either use an interface with
more than one output, or a separate MIDI Thru box
instead of the Thru jacks on each unit.