Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual

Using MIDI devices
MIDI devices – general settings and patch handling
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Note that there is an important difference between installing a preset MIDI device 
(“Install Device”) and importing a MIDI device setup (“Import Setup”):
• The presets do not include any device mapping of parameters and controls 
and no graphic panels.
They are simply patch name scripts. When you install a preset MIDI device, it 
is added to the Installed Devices list. For more information about patch name 
scripts, see the...

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Defining a new MIDI device (Cubase Artist only)
If your MIDI device is not included in the list of pre-configured devices (and is not a 
“plain” GM or XG device), you need to define it manually to make it possible to 
select patches by name.
PROCEDURE
1. In the MIDI Device Manager, click the Install Device button.
The Add MIDI Device dialog opens.
2. Select “Define New…” and click OK.
A dialog appears.
3. Enter the name of the...

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6. Select Patch Banks from the pop-up menu at the top of the window.
RESULT 
The Patch Banks list in the left half of the window shows the patch structure of the 
device. This could simply be a list of patches, but it is usually one or several layers 
of banks or groups containing the patches (much like a folder structure on a hard 
disk for example).
• You can rename a device in the Installed Devices list by double-clicking and...

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Cubase Artist only: Devices with several banks have an additional tab “Bank 
Assignment”. Select this tab to specify for each MIDI channel which bank it should 
use.
The selection here will affect which bank is displayed when you select programs by 
name for the device in the track list or Inspector. For example, many instruments use 
MIDI channel 10 as an exclusive drum channel, in which case you would want to 
select the “Drums”...

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3. Click a patch in the list to select it.
This sends the appropriate MIDI message to the device. You can also scroll the 
program selection up or down, as with any value.
Renaming patches in a device
The pre-configured devices list is based on the factory-preset patches, i. e. the 
patches included in the device when you first bought it. If you have replaced some 
of the factory presets with your own patches, you need to modify...

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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...

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Adding Multiple Presets
PROCEDURE
1. Add the event types required for selecting a patch in the MIDI device.
This is done just as when editing the settings for a single event: clicking in the event 
display brings up a pop-up menu from which you can select an event type.
2. Use the Range column to set up either a fixed value or a range of values for 
each event type in the list.
This requires some explanation:
If you specify a...

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About Device panels (Cubase Pro only)
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About Device panels (Cubase Pro only)
On the following pages we will describe how to use MIDI Device panels and the 
powerful MIDI device panel editing features of the MIDI Device Manager.
NOTE
We recommend that you first configure the patch banks, then export the device 
setup before editing the panels. T h i s  w a y ,  m o s t  o f  y o u r  s e t t i n g s  w i l l  b e  s a v e d  i n  c a s e  
of panel configuration problems.
The panels...

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5. Select a device and click OK.
The device is added to the list of installed devices in the MIDI Device Manager.
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 panel opens in a separate window. The Edit (“e”) button at the top opens 
the Edit Panel window, see the separate PDF document “MIDI Devices”.
7. Close the Device panel and return to the Project...

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About Device panels (Cubase Pro only)
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NOTE
If you cannot see any panels in the “Panels” folder, although you have successfully 
set up a MIDI device with several panels, make sure that you selected the correct 
channel from the Channel pop-up menu, preferably “Any” to see all device panels. 
Also make sure that the panels fit into the space, otherwise they will not be available 
in the “Panels” folder.
Showing panels in the MixConsole
PROCEDURE
1. Open the MixConsole and activate...