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Setting up your system
by sending the input signal back out again. However, moni-
toring is controlled from Cubase AI. This means that the au-
dio hardware’s direct monitoring feature can be turned on
or off automatically by Cubase AI.
Monitoring is described in detail in the chapter “Record-
ing” in the Operation Manual. However, when setting up,
there’s one thing to note:
• If you want to use the external monitoring via your audio
hardware, make sure the corresponding functions are ac-
tivated in the card’s mixer application.
Setting up MIDI
This section describes how to connect and set up MIDI
equipment. If you have no MIDI equipment you can skip
this section. Note that this is only an example – you might
need or want to hook things up differently!
Connecting the MIDI equipment
In this example we assume that you have a MIDI keyboard
and an external MIDI sound module. The keyboard is used
both for feeding the computer with MIDI messages for re-
cording and for playing back MIDI tracks. The sound mod-
ule is used for playback only. Using Cubase AI’s MIDI Thru
feature (described later) you will be able to hear the cor-
rect sound from the sound module while playing the key-
board or recording.
A typical MIDI Setup.
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 AI
menu under Mac OS X), you will find a setting called
“MIDI Thru Active”. This is related to a setting in your in-
strument 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).
!
Always make all connections with all equipment
turned off!
!
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.