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  • Vienna instrument bug in Cubase ? Helpie !

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    Hi there ! I have been having this problem a lot on my sessions and I'm losing my patience. This may be a frequent newbie problem. (I hope) In the vienna instrument interface, you can see all the piano keys in the bottom area. To the right, there is a volume fader. I tend to always max out that fader and adjust the volumes in the Vienna Ensemble mixer afterwards. The problem is I am having multiple sound drop outs. That Vienna Instrument volume fader keeps getting back to it's original location ( 0 = middle of fader) and I have to move it back up very often. I assume that it could have something to do with me using velocity X-fades on my mod wheel, or something that might affect that Fader... I never assign that volume to any key or fader though... Thank you for reading. :] -dominic
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    hi seraz

    by default the volume slider is assigned to CC7. i guess it receives some messages there. you have to go to perform - map control. then scroll down to "volume" and select as controller "none". or have you already done that?

    cheers

    s.
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    Thank you so much! I knew it was going to be something simple like that. (It always is, right?) It seems to be fine! I'm wondering what was causing this. In cubase the cc7 is by default assigned to Main Volume, but I don't think I've been touching it in any way. Leak signals? Thank you again for the useful response aural. <3 -dominic>
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    are you using a MIDI-track in cubase or an instrument track?

    if you use a MIDI-track and the rack, i guess cubase will send CC7-values once you touch the MIDI-fader. just a guess here, since i usually don´t work with MIDI-tracks that much
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    @Another User said:

    <p>are you using a MIDI-track in cubase or an instrument track?</p>
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    <p>if you use a MIDI-track and the rack, i guess cubase will send CC7-values once you touch the MIDI-fader. just a guess here, since i usually don´t work with MIDI-tracks that much</p>


    I am using midi tracks. The problem got solved when I unassigned the volume in V-I map control like you suggested. 😊

    So you say that you're using mostly instrument tracks? In cubase?

    I'm wondering what are the main utilities of this option compared to using midi tracks. With vienna ensemble I find it useful to use midi tracks for the simple reason that I can use only two or three VE loaded with a bunch of instruments that I assign to midi tracks. So far I like my set up. I used to use garritan before VSL, and then I would always use instruments track, loading one new garritan VST for each track. (sounds silly but this way I had alot less bug problems... and I could mix my tracks in the mixer since instrument tracks got audio out.) But it seemed ultimately more intuitive and useful to me to assign midi tracks to ONE garritan vst loaded with 8 instruments (instead of having to load like 16 Garritan VST - one for each instrument... The reason it's so much more worth it to use midi tracks on VE rather than with garritan; Vienna Ensemble has a very nice little mixer in itself. Adjusting volumes is pretty much all I need to be able to do. My friend mixes my stuff in protools anyway. I just export my tracks in audio, one by one, without reverb or anything, and he does it all in protools. 😊
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    hi seraz

    tbe reason i don´t use VE and MIDI-tracks, but the instrument tracks, is, that i prefer having all the instruments within the mixer of cubase. i don´t need another mixer before that. it´s just the way i prefer to work.

    cheers

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    That isn't correct. 'Midi tracks' does not obviate the mixer's relationship to the resulting vsti channels, which are in fact instrument tracks, the difference being that 'instrument tracks' as enabled, vs. in vst instruments rack, are more limited, you can't decide on a midi channel even. If you enable any mutlitimbral instrument's outputs in the vsti rack, the corresponding channels show in Cubase's mixer. 'Activate all outputs' and you'll get all of them, etc.
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    Ok hmm. You're saying that we can actually use the cubase mixer to control the audio output of every midi instrument loaded in VE interface?

    What do you mean by "activate all outputs"? Where do you do that?
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    Yes, In 'devices'/'vst instruments', or hit F10, you get the vsti rack. load your plugin there; once you connect to the server there is an horizontal arrow by the slot containing eg., VE Pro. Click on that and you see the available outputs as you have in your VE Pro server preferences.