Kronos and Cubase Sequencer Question

[jeremykeys]

I have a lot of songs that I've recorded onto my Kronos, midi and audio. I would like to put them onto my Cubase program. All of my songs in my Kronos use up quite a few tracks.

Is it possible to send all of the tracks separately into Cubase using the USB?

For example, track 1 in the Kronos midi could be piano, 2 organ, 3 strings. Tracks 1 Audio could be acoustic guitar, 2 Electric guitar, 3 electric bass, 4 vocal 1, 5 vocal 2,etc.

I don't need the midi of the midi tracks but the sound from them.

I want to sounds to go automatically into tracks in Cubase. I realize that I have to do this in real time but I'd like to be able to do it all in one pass.

Can this be done? Or do I have to use the audio outs in the Kronos and do it on a track by track basis? I could use all 6 of the outputs so I don't have to do each track in the kronos one by one but even then it would take a long time.

Do any of you resident geniuses know if it's possible to do?

I think I would probably have to set up the appropriate tracks in Cubase first but that's okay.

Thanks in advance once again!

Jeremykeys

[xp50player]

to do this in realtime, Kronos would have to be a 32 channel USB audio interface. Only the new Yamaha Montage can do this. The Roland FA series will export all tracks as separate wavs, in an offline process. You will have to solo the tracks one at a time to export into Cubase.

[jeremykeys]

Oh poo.

[jeremykeys]

So I guess the most I can possibly get is 8 simultaneous outs then. I guess that will have to do.

[popmann]

so, what I do when I have a demo in the Kronos I want to import to Cubase is to save it as a SMF and copy the audio file folder onto a USB stick.

In Cubase, I import the SMF first, clean it up and assign it to VIs or the Kronos itself....then import the audio files.

I think one key here is that I'm not editing and splicing stuff in the Kronos, so if I have a bass on audio track 01 it's usually a single contiguous file, and since I use the Kronos count off, it's GOING to start at 00:00, so I can just put it there and it is sync' with the midi.

I hope I'm not leaving anything out-taking for grants how long I've done this kind of thing....but, I've done it quite often. they're demos, so simple arrangments without a billion tracks....no automation moves and such....YMMV, but at a basic level, it is possible.

[jeremykeys]

When you import the audio files, are they individual tracks? Do you transfer them with the USB stick as well? Thanks for your help!

[siwaj11]

Hi all,

1. From your kronos copy the wav file from the specific folder of a certain song to the usb.

2. Open your cubase ( im assuming that your kronos is conncted to the pc. the drivers and kronos editor properly installed and the setup preferences of cubase as well.) add a specific number of stereo track.

3. connect and open your USB stick that has the wav file you've copied from the Kronos. and drag a each wav file to your desire stereo track that you have added from your cubase lately.

4. From your Kronos open that certain song and save as midi 1 not midi 0 for you to extract the midi file individually in cubase.

5. Add instrument track in cubase and create midi track then drag midi file there.

6. From your Cubase, on the instrument track, assign the midi channel and patch according from your seq mode song in kronos, keep the seq mode to your kronos for referencing.

7. You can export all the midi from the midi track under instrument track as audio individually. or mix them down along with the wav file from your stereo audio track.

hope this helps.

kudos to cubase my recommendation is if you are dealing with the midi it is better to use Sonar/Cakewalk its easy to manipulate midi file. extract them individually to wav file. then you can now use it to cubase without any hassle.



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[amit]

Although it's attractive you copy the wav folder etc and do everything there.

I do it the old school way so that everything syncs up well:

I don't use the Korg USB (though you can).

1: In global I turn the Fx off
2: SOLO two tracks (if recording two tracks at a time or solo more and route to outputs accordingly)
3: Unless the track contains tempo changes, I'd set my DAW to song tempo and then make kronos the slave.
4. Set the DAW time selection (or punch in) to song length
5: Arm the Daw tracks, set routing and hit record to record first PASS.
6. After recording pass, Move the recorded files to new tracks
7: Repeat for second/ third etc passes