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Tutorial 3: Recording and editing MIDI
MIDI recording
Now that we have our sound, let’s record something. Re-
cording MIDI is very similar to recording audio, see the
chapter “Tutorial 1: Recording audio” on page 23.
Setting MIDI input
1. Make sure you have a MIDI keyboard connected to your
computer either directly through USB or a MIDI interface.
See the chapter “Setting up your system” on page 13 for information on
setting up MIDI in your computer.
2. We want to have our MIDI keyboard routed to this
track and play “HALionOne”. Make sure the “Inspector” is
shown so we can see our MIDI input and output routing.
3. Next, on the input routing pop-up menu, choose the
MIDI input you wish to use. Most people leave this on “All
MIDI Inputs” since you don’t have to worry about which in-
put is which. “All MIDI Inputs” takes the MIDI signal from
all your inputs and routes it to this track. There are some
cases where you wouldn’t want this but for 99% of the
time you’ll be safe with this option selected.
4. Below the MIDI input routing pop-up menu, you can
set the MIDI output. This is set to our virtual instrument
“HALionOne”. If for any reason you need to change this to
another instrument you can do this here.
5. Activate the Record Enable and Monitor buttons on
the track and play some notes on your MIDI keyboard.
You should see and hear the MIDI signals coming in to the right of the
track.
Setting the track to Record Enable lets Cubase know that you want to
record on this track. You can have many tracks Record Enabled at a time.
6. Set the left locator to bar “1” and the right locator to
bar “57”.
7. Make sure Cycle is turned off.
We are going to record without looping. We’ll cover MIDI cycle recording
in the section “Cycle recording” on page 47.
8. Press [1] on the numeric keypad of your computer
keyboard.
This will move the cursor to the left locator.
9. Click the Record button and record a few bars of mu-
sic.
10. Click the Stop button when you are finished.
11. Turn off the Monitor and Record Enable buttons on the
track so that we don’t hear the input or record on the track
any more.
Congratulations! You have just created your first MIDI re-
cording in Cubase. Move ahead to the next section to
learn how to play back MIDI.
The MIDI input routing
pop-up menu.
Record Enable
Monitor