Steinberg Cubase 5 Operation Manual

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The MIDI editors
Editing a value
The selected value can be edited directly in the main dis-
play or in the decimal and binary displays. Just click on it 
and type in the desired value as usual.
Adding and deleting bytes
Using the Insert and Delete buttons or their corresponding 
computer keyboard keys, you can add and delete bytes 
from the message. Inserted data will appear before the se-
lection.
To delete the complete SysEx message, select it in the 
List Editor and press [Delete] or [Backspace]....

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Introduction
About articulations
Musical articulations, or expressions, define how certain 
notes “sound”, i. e. how they should be sung or performed 
on a given instrument. They allow you to specify that a string 
instrument is bowed (not plucked), a trumpet muted (not 
played open), and so on. Articulations also define the rela-
tive volume of notes (to play some notes louder or softer 
than the others) or changes in pitch (create a tremolo).
Articulations can be divided into...

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Expression Maps are, for example, useful in the following 
situations:
When you want to enter musical articulations directly in 
one of the MIDI editors, especially the Score Editor, with-
out having to record MIDI data first.
When you want to play/record music in realtime and 
control articulation changes while playing.
When you open and edit projects from other users. By 
using Expression Maps, you can map the articulation infor-
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Expression Maps that were saved separately
It is also possible to define your own Expression Maps, 
see “Creating and editing Expression Maps” on page 377. 
To load these, proceed as follows:
1.In the Inspector for the selected track, select the VST 
Expression section, open the Expression Map pop-up and 
choose “VST Expression Setup…”.
If the VST Expression tab is not shown in the Inspector, right-click on an-
other Inspector tab and select “VST Expression” from the context menu.
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To display the available articulations (i. e. all articulations 
set up in the selected Expression Map), open the pop-up 
menu to the left of the lane and select “Articulations”.
“Articulations” selected for the Controller lane in the Key Editor.
When “Articulations” is selected for a controller lane, 
the note beginnings are displayed as thin vertical lines in 
the controller display.
All articulations that are specified for the selected Ex-
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Articulations in the List Editor
In the List Editor, the Articulations can be viewed and ed-
ited in the Comment column. The options are the same as 
on the Key Editor info line, see above.
Directions can be shown either as Text or as Graphic 
Symbols (like in the Score Editor). Either way, they are fol-
lowed by the text “VST Expression” in brackets, so as to 
be easily recognizable and distinguishable from ordinary 
Score symbols.
Creating and editing Expression 
Maps
Creating an...

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Output Mapping
When you have added the desired sound slots, you can 
map these to certain “sound characters” or “expressions” 
of an instrument, e. g. a bowed violin or a pizzicato violin, a 
plain trumpet, a muted trumpet or a trumpet playing stac-
cato. The available sounds depend on the instrument that 
is selected for the MIDI or instrument track. You can also 
create expressions by editing the incoming MIDI data, for 
example by changing the note length or velocity. This is 
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Remote Key Settings
The Remote Keys specify which key on an external device 
will be used to play a certain sound slot, i. e. these keys will 
then be used to insert articulations instead of notes. 
The active Remote Keys (if any) are reflected in the In-
spector for the track, see “Articulations in the Project win-
dow” on page 375.
ÖIf you do not plan to record or trigger articulations via a 
MIDI input device, you do not need to specify remote keys.
Latch Mode
This setting...

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The Logical Editor, Transformer and
Input Transformer