Originally Posted by MBTC (Post 305665)

Glad you're liking Cubase. I think you're definitely better off with it if your primary interest is synths and moving toward hardware. FLS does some things really well, but is weird and non-standard in other ways.

I'm not quite sure what you mean "Problem is I don't have any options to input the MIDI data on an audio track". MIDI data and audio are two very different things. Coming from a soft synth background you might think of them as one in the same and therefore be expecting them to live in the same space in the DAW. Maybe I have an advantage because I'm old enough to remember when the MIDI standard was actually created (and was into hardware synths BEFORE then! :). Learn to separate them in your mind and you'll be in better shape. Part of your perspective might be as is because of how FLS decided to separate patterns and arrangements from the mixer. In Cubase, the mixer is more like an actual hardware mixer than it is in FLS.

You are sending MIDI data to the Virus, but you're receiving the audio output into your Cubase track. Sorry if that's too basic and I mis-understood your question, but it helps in creating your templates to think of it like that, and it is not the same as the Virus plug-in behaves by default.

Originally Posted by MBTC (Post 305669)

I've covered that here -- busses are the key. Did you watch the tutorial on busses I posted a link to and have a good grasp of that? The bus is what is taking it from the out on the Virus to the in of the mixer.

Originally Posted by fallward (Post 305670)

It's still not clicking with me I don't know why it doesn't seem that difficult. I've watched the video and read through this thread about 4 times. Maybe it's because when I open the Cubase Tutorial track and look at the setup there's only one Stereo In + one Stereo Out. One of the tracks also says "Dub Pad on Out 3+4", but I see neither.

Also, in the tutorial track it doesn't make sense to me how there is a VTI 1, VTI 2 on the sequencer and mixer. When I go to add a third Virus output a mixer track and sequencer track is created but when I do this on a new project only mixer tracks are created. I can't seem to get any audio to come out of the third mixer track in the tutorial song either..

Originally Posted by mitchiemasha (Post 305676)

So, So far you can make multiple midi tracks and have them play multiple virus parts?

I'm not sure about that version of cubase (i use 5) but when you load the virus as a vst instrument, in the VST instrument rack NOT the create VST track where you have the ability to make midi, audio, group tracks etc. (it looks like you're doing this bit right so far)... In the VST instrument rack there is a lil box with an arrow pointing outwards, next to an e. You need to click this lil box and activate the other 2 outputs. This will create the other 2 busses for your Virus automatically. Then in VC you can just select which USB output you want the midi part to go out. I forget off the top of my head which pull down menu it is but I will have a look. I know where it is when I use it.

I remember the first bit as a few years back I totally forget how to do it and asked the same question.

You can have a total of three stereo busses that will have the ability to run different sounds from the Virus through, adding different effects to each, with out the need to bounce. Some may say "why only 3" but 3 is enough as you never really get more than 3 sounds out the virus anyways.

Originally Posted by fallward (Post 305679)

I'm able to view only the USB outs in the mixer. Audio does come out of "output1" but not "output2" or "output3".

So far I'm able to work with it pretty freely with USB but analog just sounds better to me and I'd like to be able to use on the main parts of my tracks (bass, lead, strings, etc)