Virus Control in Cubase 5: Midi vs Instrument

  • Hey everyone,
    For the longest time I've been using Cubase with only midi tracks. I've never really explored the Instrument Track feature but just recently I did some searching and I came across this thread:
    Cubase Thread: Midi Track vs. Instrument Track


    They posted this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4VxEZrGltU


    I've always struggled with Cubase's automation and editing but now it looks like if I were to use an instrument track a lot of my problems will be solved. Only problem is, the instrument track is really only good for VSTs with one audio channel output. So basically if you're planning on adding USB 2 and USB 3 outputs for the Virus control, don't plan on loading Virus TI (USB) into an instrument track. I think this is unfortunate because the Virus TI is my main instrument for my productions and I would like to use a lot of automation but I tend to limit my use of automation to avoid the mess of automation lines at the bottom of the arrangement page :cursing: . The lines just keep adding up, especially since I usualy use 6-8 Virus channels.


    The same goes for Native Instruments Battery 3. If you want to have an audio channel for each sample then you need to use Midi Track. For VST instruments like Quantum Leap or Minimonsta I would try out Instrument Tracks.


    Does anyone else struggle with the same problem?

  • Load vsti on vst instrument panel ,it would be better for multi channel output VSTi
    and also after loading we have a vst instrument folder for Read and Writing our automation
    so we can control our output on the mixer,so it depends on your mixing way
    i suppose it's normal

  • set up the "QUICK CONTROLS"in cubase and all your controls for the virus and any other soft synth are displayed in the track functions on the left hand side

  • set up the "QUICK CONTROLS"in cubase and all your controls for the virus and any other soft synth are displayed in the track functions on the left hand side


    Thanks for the suggestion woodster. I am trying to do this now in cubase but I'm hitting another dead end. My first mission is to setup a nice Noise channel. So I want to put into quick controls "Filter1 Cutoff" (no problem) and "Noise Color". I do not see "Noise Color" in the list, just a $h1t load of (unmapped). I went into Virus Control to add the automation for this parameter but after that I am still not seeing "Noise Color" as an option in Quick Controls... Help?


    On a related note with Noise. I wanted to setup a soft knob to control both "Filter1 Cutoff" and "Noise Color". I find that both parameters going from 0 to 127 together give a nice beefy noise sweep. I was trying to map this out in VC but I'm not getting the same effect as when I control both knobs by hand. Here is what I'm doing. Any suggestions?



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  • right click the mouse on noise colour and add parameter to list


    Ahh I see it now. It gets appended to the end of the list in Quick Controls. I am using channel 10 for my noise and I was looking for the parameter in the group of [10]s. Thanks man.


    Anyone know the solution for the second part of my question?