Using CUBASE 5 with a Roland R-70
Posted: 16:10, 28 November 2010
Hello everyone. Newbie to the Clan here. I hope this was the best Roland forum to post this.
I have been using Cubase for awhile now, but never used anything related to MIDI in Cubase. Until now, so I hope someone can help.
In the 90's I programmed a ton of music using my Roland R-70 drum machine. Besides MIDI bulk dumps to my PDC-100 sequencer (with a floppy disk), about the only thing I figured out how to do with MIDI was to record my R-70 song data to the PDC-100, then use the PDC-100 as master to the R-70 slave to play songs back. So I had figured out the transmit/recieve settings at the time, then never had to bother again.
So now it is late 2010 and I want to move those MIDI sequences to Cubase. Yesterday I purchased an M-Audio MidiSport Uno MIDI to USB interface, and Cubase seems to recognize it.
I followed the directions in the Cubase manual as best I could (as best I could interpret) and also tried changing some settings on the R-70. But I can't seem to get it to work. I don't see the notes getting recorded, and I don't hear any sounds (even though I did try assigning sounds in Cubase).
Is anyone familiar with using the R-70 and Cubase together that can give me an idiots / newbie's detailed guide for getting this to work?
I am running the latest version of Cubase 5 on a Window 7 Laptop.
Thank you very much in advance....
I have been using Cubase for awhile now, but never used anything related to MIDI in Cubase. Until now, so I hope someone can help.
In the 90's I programmed a ton of music using my Roland R-70 drum machine. Besides MIDI bulk dumps to my PDC-100 sequencer (with a floppy disk), about the only thing I figured out how to do with MIDI was to record my R-70 song data to the PDC-100, then use the PDC-100 as master to the R-70 slave to play songs back. So I had figured out the transmit/recieve settings at the time, then never had to bother again.
So now it is late 2010 and I want to move those MIDI sequences to Cubase. Yesterday I purchased an M-Audio MidiSport Uno MIDI to USB interface, and Cubase seems to recognize it.
I followed the directions in the Cubase manual as best I could (as best I could interpret) and also tried changing some settings on the R-70. But I can't seem to get it to work. I don't see the notes getting recorded, and I don't hear any sounds (even though I did try assigning sounds in Cubase).
Is anyone familiar with using the R-70 and Cubase together that can give me an idiots / newbie's detailed guide for getting this to work?
I am running the latest version of Cubase 5 on a Window 7 Laptop.
Thank you very much in advance....