I have added my voice libraries to Cubase AI7 as VST presets - but I can only play them in voice mode.
How do I load my new VST preset voices into my existing songs?
This was the article that I used...to get this far...
https://yamahasynth.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=450:adding-moxf-voice-libraries-to-cubase-as-vst-presets&Itemid=102
Thanks for any help!
Voices can be stored in the Cubase MediaBay/Sound Browser as individual Voice items, but you can also store entire Mixing setups, as well.
If you have catalogued your Voices as individual VST PRESETs, as per the article, you will be recalling individual Voices from the Sound Browser, remember they do not have to currently reside in your internal MOXF. You can only have 384 normal User Voices and 32 User drum kits loaded in your internal MOXF. You can have unlimited normal and Drum kit Voices in the Sound Browser... You are going to go and "get" the individual Voices, bulk them to the MOXF one by one and assemble your "team". Say you are assembling your instruments for SONG mode... Say I've already set a Preset Drum Kit in Part 1 and a Preset Bass in Part 2 and now I need to search for a DCP Library Organ sound from the "B's Knees" collection (I've installed them in the SoundBrowser some time ago) for Part 3...
your workflow is as follows:
From SONG mode in the Editor click on the VST SOUND Cube to open the Sound Browser
Hit the REWIND |<< arrows to RESET the Browser and search for the first Voice you wish to recall
When you recall a Voice from the Sound Browser it is bulked via MIDI to the MOXF's Voice mode Edit Buffer... Your Editor's AUTO SYNC SETTING will be set so that only the "Current" option is ON and set to communicate FROM the PC to the MOXF
(The MOXF will exit Song mode and go to Voice mode, where you can audition it). This allows you to hear it with its INSERT EFFECT. You can make a decision about it, you can further edit it, if you wish. Or you can simply audition another. If it is a Voice you are interested in using in your current Project, simply STORE it to an internal MOXF VOICE location. I suggest putting your normal Voice selections in USER 3, for example, and, of course, your drum Kits in User Drum.
Think of the 384 normal USER 1, 2, and 3 locations as places to hold Voices for this one Cubase Project. (You will not need that many but the entire internal User Voice memory serves this one Cubase Project!)
STORE the Voice
You can do so by going to the Editor menu bar click EDIT or simply right click on the Voice name in the Editor window
Select "STORE VOICE"
Target a USER Bank location in your internal MOXF...
I suggested storing your Sound Browser selections together in a single USER bank, but you can simply put them anywhere you'd like. You are placing them in your MOXF's internal memory.
The idea is to be able to quickly select and assemble your team of Voices. For example, I've amassed well over 200 B3 organ Voices in my Sound Browser... Instead of finding all these different Voices which otherwise would be spread out between dozens of different files on several different USB sticks. I have them all organized in Sound Browser... Where I have instant access to them.
I can click on them by name, play them, select the one I want to use (or I could recall four or five of them that I think might be good candidates to try out in context). As I recall the ones I think are good for this Project, I bulk them over and STORE them to a USER bank in my MOXF.
Once they are stored in a User bank location, I click SONG in the Editor, my Song is recalled just as I left it. Now I can select the organ for Part 3 because it is loaded to my MOXF's internal Normal User 3:001(A01)
So if you've already setup any instruments they will still be assigned in your MIXING setup. Now you can recall the VOICE (or VOICES) into the PART (or PARTS) as you need. You have moved the Voice data into regular USER Bank locations.
When you save the Cubase Project, the MOXF VOICES and MIXING setup will be stored in the Project file.
Tried it out - and it worked great!
Thanks so much and God bless!
johnb