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POWERED MIXER, AUDIO TECHNOLOGY DJ MIXER and more...
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Emulator X
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Had a few teething troubles - aparently Creative Professional/E-MU managed to send out a whole load of boxes without the CDs in them. The guys at the store (Digital Village)eventually tracked down all the CDs I needed and got them to me post haste; thanks guys although the initial advice that I could download drivers from the web to get me going was incorrect - E-MU only provide driver updates. Why? Who's going to pirate drivers for hardware they don't own????
Anyway I'm glad I spent the extra £70 on the Emulator X Studio over the Desktop Studio 1820M. I wasn't convinced that I needed a sampler, albeit one from the E-MU stable, but the studio grand piano that ships with it must be worth the extra cost, not to mention all the Proteus 2000 samples.
The box also includes Cubase VST 5.1 so I've been scouring the web for VST effects & VSTi's; there is some truely weird stuff out there I can tell you, especially if your aim is to create strange sounds and to mangle audio beyond recognition - the Trubia synths stand out for oddness as do those from Krakli. Check out the links!
The bad news is that there is some definite oddness about VST 5.1 with regard to internal MIDI through - hence the links to the various Cubase Forums. The 1820M has two MIDI interfaces with the second input being replaced by the synchronisation card when SMPTE is being used. However a controller keyboard plugged into MIDI in 1 sends MIDI to Cubase fine, but Cubase WILL NOT route the MIDI stream thru to any VSTi or external MIDI out, but will send it to MROS?! MIDI in 2 works fine (but can't be used if sync is being used!) After scouring the forums (lots of useful ideas) and trying the various suggestions to no avail except to confirm that everything was set up as it should be I mad a discovery. If the MIDI ports are set up in SetupMME so that the second port is at the top of the list tada MIDI in 1 is passed thru. Midi in 2, however then stops being passed through. Still that shouldn't be an issue, but it's frustrating that only one of the MIDI ins can be used properly at once in Cubase. I should point out that this is DEFINITELY a Cubase issue - Emulator X and other standalone software works fine.
Steinberg Knowledgebase
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cubase.net.forums
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