VSL Pro & cubase. Midi ports nightmare.

[J.Smith]

Hi

I hope someone can help me. I've been trying to get through this issue for weeks now and I've actually given up but have one last gasp.

I'm setting up Cubase and VSL for the 1st time with no prior experience.

I'm hosting Cubase on my windows laptop.

I have two seperate windows pcs working as servers, each hosts VSL, one for orchestral instruments, the 2nd for percusion, choirs and misc.

It's all working and connected.

My problem is that I've got my 1st vsl instance and it's connected as an instrument in Cubase.

I can get 16 midi channels and 32 audio outputs working fine and I can create and connect new VSL instances as well, so I can have each instance hosting 16 midi channels and 32 audio outputs.

I can't connect to vsl in Cubase with more than 16 midi channels, I've selected multiple ports in vsl preferences.

The problem is, there is no way to select which midi port is sent from Cubase to VSL. Is this because my understanding of midi ports is wrong? Very possibly. But then how do we send midi from cubase to vsl beyond 16 channels if not by selecting a different midi port? It seams logical for there to be some way in Cubase to select a midi port and the fact that there isn't must mean there's another, mysterious way to have banks of 16 midi ports attached to a cubase instrument which connects to and is correctly routed within a vsl instance hosting say 50 VSL tracks each assigned as instruments with midi channel 1 to 16 on port 1. Midi channel 1 to 16 port 2, etc?

The issue is in cubase as I see it.

I can select a midi channel from 1 to 16 on the cubase instrument but there is no button, selector, option or anything at all that would allow me to select midi port 2, midi channel 1 to 16.

This means I can only have 4 instruments with fours atticulations each per instance in VSL?

This seams such a ridiculously simple thing to need and to implement but the Cubase manual has nothing at all on selecting midi ports in instruments and I can't find anything at all on any forums.

[The Minstrel]

Not by the computer now, but from the top of my head, look for the output dropdown in the track inspector (in Cubase). From the dropdown, choose the appropriate VE port from the list.

[Dietz]

@J-Smith said:
I can get 16 midi channels and 32 audio outputs working fine and I can create and connect new VSL instances as well, so I can have each instance hosting 16 midi channels and 32 audio outputs.

You should see as many MIDI Ports with 16 channels each as set in VE Pro's Preferences:

If this isn't the case, then please get in contact with VSL support. They should be able to sort out the issue swiftly.

[J.Smith]

Hi all.

So. I think its working now....
Im not entireley sure what I did apart from uninstal Cubase, VSL, my audio interface and my controller keyboard and then reinstall them Cubase first.
If I have to guess at a dumb thing I did, it may have been that I was selecting the wrong version of VSL in one of the options. Whatever it was as soon as I opened up VSL, after rebooting and tried to change the midi port of one of its channels, I got different options than I'd ever seen before, very similar to the ones shown in all the helpful pictures posted in reply. so when I opened Cubase with a new project and created a new rack instrument I could see the new options in Cubase's left panel.

I set up a couple of midi tracks in Cubase from the rack instrument and selected two different midi channels and two different new options, which matched the midi port number in VSL and got the sound of a heavenly choir in my headphones, it was my choirs template I was building in VSL. While I was playing around with the sound and looking at what the settings were I came up with a new part which I put down in the new Cubase project which all works and is fully editable.

I was about ready to explode yesterday so all the advice and support did me a lot of good.
I'm now taking the evening off to relax and reflect.
Thank you to all.