Steinberg Cubase 6 Manual

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The Commands pop-up menu contains the following 
items:
Create Bank
Creates a new bank at the highest hierarchical level of the 
Patch Banks list. You can rename this by clicking on it and 
typing a new name.
New Folder
Creates a new subfolder in the selected bank or folder. 
This could correspond to a group of patches in the MIDI 
device, or just be a way for you to categorize sounds, etc. 
When you select this item, a name dialog opens, allowing 
you to name the folder. You can...

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3.Specify a Default Name below the event display.
The added events will get this name, followed by a number. You can re-
name presets manually in the Patch Banks list later.
4.Click OK.
A number of new presets have now been added to the selected bank or 
folder, according to your settings.
Other editing functions
• You can move presets between banks and folders by drag-
ging them to the Patch Banks list.
• You can remove a bank, folder or preset by selecting it in the 
Patch Banks...

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6.Select the correct MIDI output from the Output pop-
up menu, select the device in the list and click the Open 
Device button.
The device control panel opens in a separate window. The Edit (“e”) but-ton at the top opens the Edit Panel window, see the separate PDF doc-
ument “MIDI Devices”.
7.Close the Device panel and return to the Project 
window.
8.Select the device from the “Output Routing” pop-up 
menu for a MIDI track.
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Showing panels in the Mixer
1.Open the Mixer and make sure that the extended 
channel view is shown.
2.Open the View options pop-up menu for the MIDI 
channel connected to the device and select “User Panel”.
3.Click the arrow next to the label “user” at the top of the 
extended section of the channel strip.
The Panels folder is displayed like in the Inspector, but with different 
available panels. Just like in the Inspector, the panel has to “fit” into the 
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If you have an SM2 component installed, there is an addi-
tional menu item on the Devices menu.
Total Recall
Total Recall means that you can save and recall all set-
tings of your hardware and software products by opening 
one integrated file in a DAW such as Cubase or Nuendo. 
Also you will have instant and organized access to hard
-
ware editors.
When you load a project or switch to another active project 
that contains SM2 data, the Total Recall Synchronization 
dialog opens:...

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Introduction
This chapter describes the various MIDI processing func-
tions available on the MIDI menu. They offer various ways 
to edit MIDI notes and other events, either in the Project 
window or from within a MIDI editor.
MIDI functions vs. MIDI modifiers
In some cases, the result of a MIDI function can also be 
obtained by using MIDI modifiers and effects, see 
“MIDI 
realtime parameters and effects” on page 348). For exam-
ple, the operations “Transpose” and “Quantize” are...

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Use Range
When this is activated, transposed notes will remain within 
the limit that you specify with the Low and High values. 
If a note would end up outside this limit after transposition, 
it is shifted to another octave, keeping the correct trans
-
posed pitch if possible. If the range between the upper 
and lower limit is very narrow, the note will be transposed 
“as far as possible”, i.
 e. to notes specified with the Low 
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Applying effects to a single part
Normally, the MIDI modifiers and effects affect a whole 
MIDI track. This may not always be what you want. For ex
-
ample, you may want to apply some MIDI effects to a sin-
gle part (without having to create a separate track for that 
part only). The “Merge MIDI in Loop” function can help:
1.Set up your MIDI modifiers and MIDI effects the way 
you want them for the part.
This will of course affect the whole track, but focus on the part for now.
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An example:
This part contains events on MIDI channels 1, 2, and 3.
Selecting “Dissolve Part” creates new parts on new tracks, set to chan-
nels 1, 2, and 3. Each new part contains only the events on the respec-
tive MIDI channel. The original MIDI part is muted.
Dissolving parts into separate pitches
The Dissolve Part function can also scan MIDI parts for 
events of different pitches, and distribute the events into 
new parts on new tracks, one for each pitch. This is useful 
when...