Re: Re: Assigning Midi in Cubas and Kontakt 4 for Z-tar

Hi..



 Cubase is re-mapping all input channels to channel #1. as I said.. There is no other explanation, is there?  Does this still happen if you set Cubase to 'any' on the respective channel input boxes, as I said before?

You should use a standard midi lead and a cheap GM expander as a sort of 'test kit'. 

If there is something wrong with the Ztar (which I very much doubt) then you can see / hear it easily.. But most of all,by keeping it simple, you can  be sure that each element in your setup is OK.  So far, you haven't even been able to correctly assign a zone and hear it.. (IMO because incorrectly assigned computer software is in the way) 

You need get the Ztar to send properly, as step # one, but you cannot ever be sure..without a simple test.
Ok.. now maybe Ztar is sending fine, (but you cannot really tell) then we come to problem # 2 ; 
ie. having assigned channels to correct 'kits' (ie, not ROM kits) now it seems that Cubase is not set up correctly. 
If I were you, I would borrow a midi synth from a shop or a friend, and try changing the sending channels. See if Cubase is remapping them as a first. 


I only play Ztars with two hands tapping, unaccompanied, and normally directly into a simple midi expander, and I only practice in this way. 
It is not so 'flashy' as some Ztar styles with Ableton or Reason etc. but it certainly gets your independence and chops down, and lets you explore the very many possibilities of this amazing instrument, and it always allows you to practice developing technique, rather than developing frustration.. 
Then and only then, I can add my midi rhythm arrangers, midi step sequencers, midi DAW software, midi hardware sequencers, and midi hardware expanders to my heart's content, certain that all of my Ztars are set up correctly..     





 good luck



richard 
bg (Bulgaria)


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Subject: Re: [midiguitar] Re: Assigning Midi in Cubas and Kontakt 4 for Z-tar
 


  
Hi Richard, there's no midi data coming into Midi Ox from the zones set to other channels than 1. I made sure that the zone was set correctly and the channel was set correctly. I went to a different kit, then came back to the kit above 8 to make sure nothing had changed. I opened the zone to make sure that it was still assigned properly and then checked it's Midi assignment. Everything was as it was supposed to be but still no data coming to the Midi Ox.

I decided maybe it was just channel 2 so I changed the Ztar's zone to channel 3 while Cubase was up (and Midi Ox had been turned off (because it won't run with Cubase using up so much memory). 

When I went to channel 3 and played something in the zone assigned to that channel, I saw activity on the fader but a kind of automation command must have been issued by the Ztar cause when I went to the track fader, it was set to Zero. When I raised it and played in the zone again, it had stopped sending activity to the fader. 

Here's the deal now. If the Ztar is set to channel 4 and Prologue is set to channel 4, the zone with channel 4 doesn't play. Zone 1 plays the sound assigned in prologue even though Zone 1 is set to channel 1 and Prologue is set to channel 4. Weird.