Topic: [Cubase] Can’t drag&drop own MIDI files

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Replied January 13, 2010 at 22:31 #1931830

Scott
Moderator

Do you also have ‘Import to Instrument Track’ unchecked?

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied January 14, 2010 at 14:35 #1931837

Ben Callard
Participant

Hi Scott,
When I uncheck the “Import to Instrument Tracks” box, the behaviour is almost indentical – in fact, the only difference is that the two new tracks that are created are MIDI tracks and not Instrument tracks…
Thanks!

Replied January 22, 2010 at 19:27 #1931917

Rogue
Moderator

try to check the ‘export as type 0’ option before saving your MIDI file. If you can, upload both versions in a zip file here and post the result so we can look at them.

Rogue Marechal - Toontrack
Configuration Manager

Replied July 19, 2010 at 15:43 #1937466

Oudfreak
Participant

HI!
Recently I upgraded my sequencer to Cubase 5.5 and now it seems I can’t drag and drop at all. I opened an old project with a midi EZ-drum track and wanted to add more beats from the groove window. No response. It’s like the EZdrummer is in stand alone mode, although it’s opened from the VST instrument window in Cubase. I don’t even get that little + sign when I push the mouse button.
Any suggestions?

Replied July 19, 2010 at 16:11 #1937468

Scott
Moderator

Right click the cubase.exe and make sure you’re running Cubase as administrator.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied July 27, 2010 at 00:28 #1937635

Pikklez
Participant

Works like a charm, thanks Scott!

Replied December 27, 2010 at 20:20 #1943617

trichard19
Participant

@Scott: I have the same issue and I tried these suggestion, but they haven’t work. I am trying to drag and paste a groove from EZ drummer into Cubase Version1.0.7 When I’m in Cubase I go to “File” (upper left hand corner) then I scroll down to “Preferences” and then I have different “MIDI”option from the page above:
How did you copy and paste that image? So I could show you exactly what I’m looking at in “Preferences” and more importantly any other suggestion on how to activate the drag and drop option?

Pentium 4(1.70 Ghz) with 1.69 Ghz RAM Cubase Version 1.0.7 (March 2004) Connected through PreSonus Firebox EZ Drummer Extreme novice

Replied December 27, 2010 at 20:49 #1943620

Scott
Moderator

Dragging and dropping MIDI is available in version 3 of Cubase and above.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied December 27, 2010 at 21:21 #1943622

trichard19
Participant

That explains a lot…Thanks for such a quick response. Have a Happy New Year!

Pentium 4(1.70 Ghz) with 1.69 Ghz RAM Cubase Version 1.0.7 (March 2004) Connected through PreSonus Firebox EZ Drummer Extreme novice

Replied May 25, 2011 at 22:41 #1949037

Douglas
Participant

Hi,

I am having the same problem with drag and drop. I have recently learned how to set up EZ with separate tracks for each drum (which is really phenomenal, BTW) but now I cannot drag grooves into the new VST track. I set up on a midi track, not an instrument track, I unchecked ‘auto dissolve’ etc… in fact, I tried just about every combination in the Import options until they are just all unchecked now. I tried the log in as administrator but it asks for a password. I haven’t a clue what to do with that. I already have an instrument track set up in the same project with EZ running there and an entire drum track already programmed. I would also love to be able to copy and paste from the instrument track to the midi track but that may be an overreach. I will gladly re program the entire song if I can just figure out how to re-drag and drop everything.

I am running Cubase Essential 4 on a PC with XP.
Thanks for any help,
Douglas

Replied May 26, 2011 at 00:20 #1949042

Scott
Moderator

Hi Douglas,

I don’t quite follow you. Are you saying that you’ve already dragged and dropped MIDI onto an Instrument Track but can’t copy that MIDI onto another MIDI track? Are you saying that you can drag and drop onto an Instrument Track but can’t drag and drop onto your MIDI track that was created when you load EZD from the VST Instrument Rack?

Here’s a video on how to set up multi out of EZD in Cubase.

http://www.toontrack.com/helpdesk/issue_view_portal.asp?ID=803

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied May 30, 2011 at 17:00 #1949101

Douglas
Participant

Hey Scott,

I have plenty of songs for which I have created drum tracks with EZ by right clicking and selecting “add instrument track” and then selected EZ as the instrument. I now know how to get the multi out working for mixing but it doesn’t work with instrument tracks it only works with midi tracks to which you assign a VST (like when you press F11). Since I already dragged all the patterns that I wanted for drums into the “instrument” track I thought it would be nice and easy to just cut and paste from that track to the new “midi” track with the 8 outs underneath it for all the separate drums. But Cubase doesn’t seem to let me do that.

Putting that aside, my next option was to drag from the groove list in EZ to the new “midi” track (which I am going to need to do from now on anyway). But that just keeps spawning new tracks. I did the unchecking of the “auto dissolve” as mentioned before in the forum but that didn’t work. I cannot log in as an administrator because it requires a password and I do not have one that I know of.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Douglas

Replied May 30, 2011 at 18:25 #1949104

Scott
Moderator

You can right-click on the Cubase.exe and select ‘run as administrator’.

I’m not at my studio rig right now but what happens when you select all of your ‘Instrument track’ MIDI and drag it over to the MIDI track? Do you get the ‘null sign’ or does dropping create a new MIDI track or ???

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied May 30, 2011 at 18:55 #1949107

Douglas
Participant

When I select “run as administrator” it asks for a password. I don’t know of any passwords set up for my cubase.

When I drag from the instrument track to midi I get null sign.

Replied May 30, 2011 at 19:04 #1949108

Scott
Moderator

If you don’t know you’re computer’s passwords I’m not sure what more I can do for you on that front.

Have you tried exporting your MIDI and then importing it back into your Cubase project and then setting the imported MIDI’s MIDI Out to EZdrummer?

As for dragging MIDI from EZdrummer creating new MIDI tracks, try these Preference Settings (these settings are for Cubase 4 so I’m not sure if they are the same in Cubase Essential 4):

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
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