Steinberg Cubase 6 Manual

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For example, you may want to place some drum sounds 
near each other on the keyboard so that they can be easily 
played together, move sounds so that the most important 
sounds can be played from a short keyboard, play a sound 
from a black key instead of a white, and so on. If you never 
play your drum parts from a MIDI controller (but draw them 
in the editor) you need not care about the I-note setting.
O-notes (output notes)
The next step is the output. This is what happens when...

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The Drum Map Setup dialog
To set up and manage your drum maps, select Drum Map 
Setup from the Map pop-up menu or the MIDI menu. This 
opens the following dialog:
This is where you load, create, modify, and save drum 
maps. The list on the left shows the currently loaded drum 
maps; selecting a drum map in the list displays its sounds 
and settings on the right.
ÖThe settings for the drum sounds are exactly the same 
as in the Drum Editor (see 
“Drum map settings” on page 
400). As...

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Using drum name lists
Even if no drum map is selected for the edited MIDI track, 
you can still use the Drum Editor. As previously mentioned, 
the drum sound list then only has four columns: Audition, 
Pitch, Instrument (drum sound name), and Quantize. There 
is no I-note and O-note functionality.
In this mode, the names shown in the Instrument column 
depend on the selection on the Names pop-up menu, just 
below the Map pop-up menu in the Drum Editor.
The options on this pop-up menu...

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The List Editor – Overview
The toolbar
The toolbar contains several items that are the same as in 
the Key Editor. The following toolbar items are unique to 
the List Editor:
•The Insert Event Type pop-up menu is used when creat-
ing new events.
This is where you determine what type of event to add (see “Inserting events” on page 405).
•The List Editor contains an additional value display.
•The List Editor has no info line (numerical editing is 
available in the list instead).
ÖIf...

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List Editor operations
Customizing the view
You can click and drag the divider between the list and 
the event display to make one area wider and the other 
narrower. Furthermore, the list can be customized in the 
following ways:
•You can change the order of the columns by dragging 
the column headings.
•You can resize columns by dragging the dividers be-
tween the column headings.
Setting the display format
Just like in the Project window, you set the display format 
(bars+beats,...

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•You can edit several events at once. If several events 
are selected and you edit a value for one event, the other 
selected events’ values will be changed as well.
Normally, any initial value differences between the events will be main-tained – i. e. the values will change by the same amount. If you press [Ctrl]/
[Command] when you edit, however, all events will get the same value.
ÖFor SysEx (system exclusive) events, you can only edit 
the position (Start) in the list. However,...

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The Hide section (filtering out event types)
The Hide section on the Filters bar allows you to hide spe-
cific event types from view. For example, it may be hard to 
find note events if the part contains a lot of controller data. 
By hiding the controllers, the list becomes more manage
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able.
•To hide an event type, activate the corresponding 
checkbox on the Filters bar.
•To hide all event types except one, press [Ctrl]/[Com-
mand] and click the checkbox of the event type you want...

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Normally, MIDI devices allow you to dump (transmit) all or 
some settings in the device’s memory in the form of MIDI 
SysEx messages. A dump is therefore (among other 
things) a way of making backup copies of the settings of 
your instrument: sending such a dump back to the MIDI 
device will restore the settings. 
If your instrument allows the dumping of a few or all of its 
settings via MIDI by activating some function on the front 
panel, this dump will probably be recordable in...

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•If the dump is very short (for instance, a single sound) 
you can put it in the middle of the project to re-program a 
device on the fly. However, you can achieve the same ef
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fect by using Program Change. This is definitely prefera-
ble, since less MIDI data is sent and recorded. Some 
devices may be set up to dump the settings for a sound as 
soon as you select it on the front panel.
•If you create parts with useful SysEx dumps, you can 
put these on a special muted track. When...

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Editing a value
The selected value can be edited directly in the main dis-
play or in the ASCII, 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
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lection.
•To delete the complete SysEx message, select it in the 
List Editor and press [Delete] or...