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Tutorial 3: Recording and editing MIDI
Browsing sounds
We are now going to load sounds into our virtual instrument
“HALionOne”.
1. Click the “Preset” button in “HALionOne” and choose
“Load Preset” from the pop-up menu.
2. In the window that appears, click the Categories but-
ton to display the Filter section.
3. In the “Category” section, make sure only “Strings” is
selected by deselecting anything else and clicking on
“Strings”. You have filtered the list to only show strings.
Choose a string sound from the list on the right.
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 22.
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 input is which. “All MIDI Inputs” takes the MIDI sig-
nal 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.
Record enabling the track lets Cubase AI 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 42.
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
music.
10. Click the Stop button when you are finished.
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Load the project called “Recording MIDI 2” found in
the “Tutorial 3” folder.
Category Sub Category Filtered List
The MIDI Input Routing
pop-up menu
Record Enable Monitor