Can you help me sort out my Cubase 5 routing?

[Musicarta Bob]

I have a Kawai electric piano piped into an Edirol UA-4FX sound card connected to my Windows 7 desktop.

I make midi piano arrangements, recording performances or playing midi scores in Cubase 5 via an Edirol 3-UM-1 interface and playing back through the Kawai - beautiful sound.

What I want to be able to do is mix down the Kawai midi playback to an audio track in Cubase. I'm sure I used to be able to do this, and in stereo too!

An audio track set to record registers no activity when I play back, though the sound is coming through the Kawai just fine.

Can anybody help me do this, please!!

Thanks for your time!

Bob Chappell

www.musicarta.com

[BertKoor]

What I want to be able to do is mix down the Kawai midi playback to an audio track in Cubase. I'm sure I used to be able to do this, and in stereo too!

Midi is not audio. Midi is only data: what key was pressed/released when and with what velocity.

Me thinks you want to record the audio. So the audio output of the keyboard need to go to audio inputs of the interface, and Cubase set to record that on a track.

[Musicarta Bob]

I'm sure I used to be able to record the Kawai playback of the midi track in Cubase onto an audio track also in Cubase without any additional cabling or connections. That's first prize. Is there any secret control panel setting you can think of that will allow that, given that Cubase is essentially treating the Kawai as a VST?

[whyterabbyt]

I'm sure I used to be able to record the Kawai playback of the midi track in Cubase onto an audio track also in Cubase without any additional cabling or connections.

define 'additional cabling or connections.' additional to what?

I have a Kawai electric piano piped into an Edirol UA-4FX sound card

You havent actually defined what is being 'piped'. MIDI? Audio?

If you arent piping both audio (in to the soundcard from the keyboard) and midi (in to the keyboard from the soundcard), then you will definitely need additional cabling.

[Musicarta Bob]

Thanks, working on it.