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salvosound
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Joined 03-08-2013 status: Experienced |
Henry you are great! Thank you very much!
Salvo |
- Henry -
Total Posts: 164
Joined 10-30-2011 status: Pro |
No problem. I was adding to my previous post while you replied, but I hope it all still makes sense. :-) Both inputs are probably 1/8” stereo jacks, but the line level input is best suited here. You may need to lower the volume slider on the Motif - say halfway down - to get an undistorted signal. - H - |
salvosound
Total Posts: 99
Joined 03-08-2013 status: Experienced |
Henry thank you very much for your helpful and clear explanation =)
Salvo |
- Henry -
Total Posts: 164
Joined 10-30-2011 status: Pro |
Hi,
Yes, it’s entirely possible:
You should see the track input meter light up green when you play the instrument, and a waveform filling the track as you record. If they don’t, we may have to look closer at the signal routing on your Motif, or the input selections that are available to you in Cubase. Once you’ve made a successful recording, you can add more tracks. When your song is all done, use the export/mixdown function to convert it all to MP3. - H - |
salvosound
Total Posts: 99
Joined 03-08-2013 status: Experienced |
Okk, i will try when the cable comes home and surely i will let u know :-) |
patrickXF
Total Posts: 1
Joined 04-20-2018 status: Newcomer |
I have my Motif XF6 connected to my iPad, using the wireless LAN adapter UD-WL01. Yamaha has a brilliant app to record your songs called Cloudrecorder. You can even upload directly to Soundcloud as well. Image Attachments
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philwoodmusic
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Joined 07-01-2013 status: Guru |
When you say that the USB connection isn’t strictly needed for audio recording, I wasn’t clear on what you were communicating to salvosound. I wasn’t sure if you were saying that it could be used to record audio, or that it could be useful when recording audio. The USB ‘To Host’ on a Motif XF cannot be used for audio recording to a DAW such as Cubase. It does not output audio. What it does do, is allow the XF to communicate MIDI data to the computer, bi-directionally as a multi-port connection, for recording and editing MIDI (and MIDI notation purposes). So with that in mind, it can be VERY useful when recording audio from the Motif XF via analogue outputs, S/PDIF or Firewire (with a FW16E) because it allows you to record and refine your MIDI note data with a program like Cubase BEFORE committing to an audio track on whatever audio recording system / DAW is being used.
Welcome to the forum. I’m sure it’s very useful, but doesn’t it only ever record straight to stereo? (which makes it useful for completed songs as opposed to multi tracking) I’d also be interested in how it performs when playing into it live, in terms of latency and not just for recording an audio file of the contents of whatever someone has in the XF’s onboard sequencer. Because of that, it doesn’t seem like a logical solution for salvosound. |
- Henry -
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Hi, Sorry if my message was unclear, but that had already been pointed out earlier in this thread:
With most onboard sound solutions, like the RealTek chip in salvosound‘s computer, audio latency is going to be very high. Latency is not much of an issue, though, if the only goal is to record a complete song to a single stereo track in one go, without monitoring through the software. Using onboard audio is not an ideal situation for multitracking. You can work around the latency, but the driver offsets for these chips aren’t necessarily stable from one session to the next (and sometimes even from one take to the next). You may therefore occationally end up with audio tracks that gradually ‘drift’ out of sync. If you want to do overdubs or multitrack, recording MIDI tracks is probably the best way to go. With a song consisting of only MIDI tracks, you can have the Motif generate all the sound, based on the note data it receives from Cubase. Thus, the latency/sync issues of the sound card are bypassed alltogether. When the song is done, you can still record it all to a stereo audio track from the Motif’s outputs. To do this, you’ll have to leave the ‘USB To Host’ cable in place. I hope you’ll be able to make your first recording soon, salvosound! :-) - H - |
philwoodmusic
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Yes, you’re right, I said it at least TWICE before having to clear it up :-) No worries. |
salvosound
Total Posts: 99
Joined 03-08-2013 status: Experienced |
Guys, the cable arrived at my home, so i can start to try and tell you, thank you again =) |
salvosound
Total Posts: 99
Joined 03-08-2013 status: Experienced |
Hello again!
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- Henry -
Total Posts: 164
Joined 10-30-2011 status: Pro |
Hi, Since we’re not interested in MIDI yet, you can safely ignore the USB cable and the “MIDI port unmapped” message for now. We’ll deal with that when you’re ready. The most important thing is to make sure Cubase is properly set up to use your sound card’s audio driver.
1: Go to Windows’ Control Panel, and open the “Generic Low Latency ASIO Driver” tool.
5: Start Cubase.
10: Open the Devices > VST Connections menu.
12: Create a new blank project
Please note that Cubase can only “see” the inputs/outputs of the computer, and not the Motif. If you still can’t get any sound, try to connect your audio cable to the Motif’s main outputs instead.
Do you have the Cubase Elements 9 manuals? If not, you can download them here:
- H - |
salvosound
Total Posts: 99
Joined 03-08-2013 status: Experienced |
Henry, as usual, thank you!
I will search how to download and have it again. Cheers Salvo
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salvosound
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BUFFERS, BUFFERS, BUFFERS!
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- Henry -
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Joined 10-30-2011 status: Pro |
Excellent! :-) Higher buffer settings will increase the monitoring latency, but that’s not really a problem at this stage. If/when it becomes problematic, you should be able to lower it a bit, without the sound cracking up. - H - |