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Tutorial 5: External MIDI instruments
4. Remember that we created a MIDI device in the MIDI
Device Manager. MIDI Devices contain valuable informa-
tion about patch names, bank selections and a few other
things. This helps us in that we already have all the pro-
gram names for the K2000 at our disposal. Click on the
“Programs” button in the inspector and choose the “Ste-
reo Grand” piano sound.
If your MIDI device is different from the one in this tutorial choose a piano
sound from your device.
That’s it. We are now monitoring and playing our external
instrument. You can add effects and EQ to the external in-
strument just like a virtual instrument or an audio track. We’ll
do this in the next tutorial. For now let’s record some MIDI.
Recording MIDI and external
instruments (Cubase only)
Now let’s record some MIDI on our instrument track.
1. Activate the Record Enable and Monitor buttons on the
Piano track if they aren’t already on.
2. If you find the levels low, you can click on the “Edit In-
strument” button and move the “Return Gain” slider so
that you hear more of the external instrument.
3. Click the Record button on the Transport panel and
record a piano line.
4. Click the Stop button when you are finished.
5. Turn off the “Record Enable” and “Monitor” buttons on
the “Piano” track so that you don’t hear the input any more
and that you won’t accidentally record on it.
Congratulations! You’ve just recorded your first external
MIDI instrument. Move on to the next tutorial as we will
discuss mixing, EQs, effects, automation and exporting.
Click the “Programs”
button to select a pi-
ano sound.
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Load the project called “External MIDI 4” found in the
“Tutorial 5” folder.
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Load the project called “External MIDI 5” found in the
“Tutorial 5” folder to hear all the changes we’ve
made so far.