Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual
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Track Quick Controls
Assigning Parameters to Quick Controls622
Removing Parameter Assignments
• To remove a parameter from a slot, double-click the parameter name to select
it and press the [Delete] or [Backspace] key. Confirm by pressing [Return].
Alternatively, you can click in the corresponding slot and select No
parameter from the pop-up menu.
• To remove the Quick Control assi gnments
for all slots, click the Remove All
QC Assignments button.
Showing Automated Quick Control Assignments
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Track Quick Controls
Assigning Parameters to Quick Controls622
Removing Parameter Assignments
• To remove a parameter from a slot, double-click the parameter name to select
it and press the [Delete] or [Backspace] key. Confirm by pressing [Return].
Alternatively, you can click in the corresponding slot and select No
parameter from the pop-up menu.
• To remove the Quick Control assi gnments
for all slots, click the Remove All
QC Assignments button.
Showing Automated Quick Control Assignments
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Track Quick Controls Assigning Parameters to Quick Controls 621 Manual Assignment via the Inspector Tab You can assign track parameters manually. PROCEDURE 1. In the Inspector for your track, open the Quick Controls tab. 2. On the Quick Controls tab, click on the first Quick Control slot. A pop-up menu opens. It lists all parameters currently accessible for this particular track. 3. Double-click the parameter that you want to assign to the first Quick Control slot. The parameter name and its value are displayed in the slot. You can change the value by dragging the slider. The track’s main volume parameter is assigned to Quick Control 1. 4. Repeat these steps for each Quick Control slot until all slots are associated with track parameters. RESULT You can now control the functions most important to you via one single Inspector section. • To rename a Quick Control, double-click on the name in the slot to select it, enter a new name and press [Enter]. • To replace a parameter assignment with a different parameter, click on the corresponding Quick Control slot and double-click a different parameter. Automatic Assignment of VST Instrument Parameters When you create an instrument track or load a VST instrument via the VST Instruments window including creating an associated MIDI track, the main parameters of the instrument are automatically assigned to the slots on the Quick Controls tab in the Inspector. NOTE This only works if the VST instrument supports this feature. If you have changed the parameter assignment or if you manually route a MIDI track to a VST instrument, you can retrieve the default assignments. PROCEDURE 1. In the Inspector for your track, open the Quick Controls tab. 2. Click Get Default QCs from Plug-in.
Track Quick Controls Assigning Parameters to Quick Controls622 Removing Parameter Assignments • To remove a parameter from a slot, double-click the parameter name to select it and press the [Delete] or [Backspace] key. Confirm by pressing [Return]. Alternatively, you can click in the corresponding slot and select No parameter from the pop-up menu. • To remove the Quick Control assi gnments for all slots, click the Remove All QC Assignments button. Showing Automated Quick Control Assignments You can show all Quick Control assignments that have been automated for one track. PROCEDURE 1. Click the track for which you want to show automated Quick Control assignments. 2. In the Inspector for your track, open the Quick Controls tab. 3. On the Quick Controls ta b, click Preset Management . 4. Select Show Automated QC Assignments . RESULT The automation tracks of the automated Quick Control parameters open for the sele cted track. NOTE •If Volume is assigned as a Quick Control parameter, it is always shown as automated, independent of whet her it is automated or not. • You can also show automated Qu ick Control assignments via the Track Quick Controls rack in the MixConsole .
Track Quick Controls Connecting Quick Controls with Remote Controllers623 Saving/Loading Track Quick Control Assignments as Presets You can save and load your own Quick Control assignments as presets for audio, instrument, MIDI, FX, and group tracks. You can also use the factory presets. PROCEDURE 1. In the Inspector for your track, open the Quick Controls tab. For instrument tracks, the Track Quick Contro ls are automatically set to the 8 default VST Quick Controls of the loaded instrument by default. NOTE You can also make your own assignments and save them as presets and delete, rename, or reset the presets to the default assignments. 2. On the Quick Controls tab, click Preset Management . • To save a preset, click Save Preset. Enter a name in the Type In Preset Name dialog and click OK . • To load a preset, select one of the presets in the upper list of the menu. The Track Quick Control assignment changes and gives you access to the channel parameters. RELATED LINKS Manual Assignment via the Inspector Tab on page 621 Connecting Quick Controls with Remote Controllers Quick Controls become powerful when used in combination with a remote controller. P REREQUISITE Your remote device is connected to Cubase via MIDI. PROCEDURE 1. Select Devices > Device Setup . 2. In the Devices list, select Track Quick Controls or VST Quick Controls . This opens the respective section on the right. 3. From the MIDI Input pop-up menu, select the MIDI port on your computer. If your remote controller has its own MIDI input and supports MIDI feedback, you can connect your computer to the device input. Select the corresponding MIDI port in the MIDI Output pop-up menu. Alternatively, you can select All MIDI Inpu ts. 4. Click Apply. 5. Activate Learn. 6. In the Control Name co lumn, select QuickControl 1.
Track Quick Controls Activating Pick-up Mode for Hardware Controls 624 7. On your remote control device, move the control that you want to use for the first quick control. 8. Select the next slot in the Control Name column and repeat the previous steps. 9. Click OK. NOTE In addition to using the Learn function to set up the table in the Quick Controls section, you can modify the values manually. The available options are identical to the ones available for the Generic Remote device. RESULT The quick controls are now associated with control elements on your external remote controller. If you move a control element, the value of the parameter that is assigned to the corresponding Quick Control changes accordingly. The remote controller setup for Quick Controls is saved globally, that is, it is independent of any projects. If you have various remote controllers, you can save and load several Quick Control setups using the Export and Import buttons. RELATED LINKS The Generic Remote device on page 630 Activating Pick-up Mode for Hardware Controls Pick-up Mode allows you to change configured Quick Control parameters without accidentally modifying their previous values. Often, the parameter settings of your Quick Controls are initially different from the settings of your hardware controls, for example, when the hardware controls control, different Quick Controls on different tracks. In this case, you will notice that moving a hardware control changes the previous value of a parameter in a way that it is initially set to the zero position, before it is changed. Thus, you always lose your previous setting of the parameter. To avoid this, you can activate Pick-up Mode. This has the effect that when you move your hardware control, you can only change the parameter once the control reaches the parameter’s previous value. The control “picks up” the parameter at the value to which it was last set. NOTE This only applies to hardware controllers whose controls use specific ranges. PROCEDURE 1. Select Devices > Device Setup. 2. In the Devices list, select Track Quick Controls or VST Quick Controls. 3. Activate Pick-up Mode. 4. Click OK.
Track Quick Controls Quick Controls and Automatable Parameters 625 Quick Controls and Automatable Parameters You can use Quick Controls not only to access certain parameters of the current track, but also to control all automatable parameters. This makes it possible to use the Quick Controls tab of a dedicated track as a kind of “mini mixer”, controlling parameters on other tracks. IMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANT Use this function with caution, however, as you might accidentally modify parameters on other tracks. PROCEDURE 1. Create a new, empty audio track and open its Quick Controls tab. This track has no events or parts. 2. Hold down the [Ctrl]/[Command] key and click on the slot for Quick Control 1. The parameter selection context menu opens, but it lists not the parameters of the current track, but all automatable parameters. 3. Open the VST Mixer folder. The pop-up menu lists all channels available in the MixConsole of your current project. 4. Assign a parameter of one particular channel to Quick Control 1, and another parameter of another channel to Quick Control 2. RESULT The Quick Controls tab has become a secondary mixer, dedicated to quick-controlling parameters on other tracks. IMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANT Quick Controls that are assigned that way cannot work when saved as track presets.
626 Remote controlling Cubase It is possible to control Cubase via MIDI. A large number of MIDI control devices is supported. This chapter describes how to set up Cubase for remote control. The supported devices are described in the separate PDF document “Remote Control Devices”. There is also a Generic Remote Device option, allowing you to use any MIDI controller to remote control Cubase. RELATED LINKS The Generic Remote device on page 630 Setting Up Connecting the remote device Connect the MIDI output on the remote unit to a MIDI input on your MIDI interface. Depending on the remote unit model, you may also need to connect a MIDI Out on the interface to a MIDI In on the remote unit (this is necessary if the remote unit features “feedback devices” such as indicators, motorized faders, etc.). If you are recording MIDI tracks, you do not want any MIDI data from the remote unit to be accidentally recorded as well. To avoid this, you should make the following setting: PROCEDURE 1. Open the Device Setup dialog from the Devices menu. 2. Select “MIDI Port Setup” in the list on the left. 3. Check the table on the right and locate the MIDI input to which you have connected the MIDI remote unit. 4. Deactivate the checkbox in the “In ‘All MIDI Inputs’” column for that input, so that the State column reads “Inactive”. 5. Click OK to close the Device Setup dialog. RESULT Now you have removed the remote unit input from the “All MIDI Inputs” group. This means that you can record MIDI tracks with the “All MIDI Inputs” port selected without risking to record the data from the remote unit at the same time.
Remote controlling Cubase Setting Up 627 Selecting a remote device PROCEDURE 1. Open the Device Setup dialog from the Devices menu. 2. If you cannot find the remote device you are looking for, click on the plus sign in the top left corner and select the device from the pop-up menu. The selected device is added to the Devices list. NOTE Note that it is possible to select more than one remote device of the same type. If you have more than one remote device of the same type, these will be numbered in the Devices list. For example, to be able to use a Mackie Control Extender, you must install a second Mackie control device. 3. Select your MIDI control device model from the Devices list. Depending on the selected device, either a list of programmable function commands or a blank panel is shown in the right half of the dialog window. 4. Select the correct MIDI input from the pop-up menu. If necessary, select the correct MIDI output from the pop-up menu. 5. Click OK to close the dialog. RESULT You can now use the MIDI control device to move faders and knobs, activate Mute and Solo, etc. The exact parameter configuration depends on which external MIDI control device you are using. A white stripe in the Project window and in the MixConsole indicates which channels are currently linked to the remote control device.
Remote controlling Cubase Operations 628 IMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANT Sometimes communication between Cubase and a remote device is interrupted or the handshaking protocol fails to create a connection. To re-establish communication with any device in the Devices list, select it and click the Reset button in the lower part of the Device Setup dialog. The “Send Reset Message to all Devices” button at the top left of the dialog next to the “+” and “-” buttons will reset every device in the Devices list. Operations Global options for remote controllers In the Device Setup dialog, on the page for your remote device, some (or all) of the following global functions may be available (depending on your remote device): Bank pop-up menu If your remote device contains several banks, you can select the bank you want to use. The bank you select here is used by default when Cubase is launched. Smart Switch Delay Some of the Cubase functions (e. g. Solo and Mute) support the so called smart switch behavior: In addition to regular activation/deactivation of a function by clicking a button, you can also activate the function for as long as the button is pressed. Upon releasing the mouse button, the function is deactivated. This pop-up menu allows you to specify how long a button must be pressed before it goes into smart switch mode. When “Off” is selected, the smart switch function is deactivated in Cubase. Enable Auto Select If this option is activated, touching a fader on a touch-sensitive remote control device automatically selects the corresponding channel. On devices without touch-sensitive faders, the channel gets selected as soon as you move the fader.
Remote controlling Cubase Operations 629 Writing automation using remote controls Automating the MixConsole in Touch mode using a remote control device is done in the same way as when you operate on-screen controls in Write mode. In order to replace existing automation data for a control in Touch mode, the computer needs to know how long the user actually “grabbed” or used the control. When doing this “on screen”, the program simply detects when the mouse button is pressed and released. When you are using an external remote control device without touch-sensitive controls, Cubase cannot tell whether you “grab and hold” a fader or simply move it and release it. Therefore, when you are using a device without touch-sensitive controls and want to replace existing automation data, pay attention to the following: • If you activate Write mode and move a control on the remote control device, all data for the corresponding parameter is replaced from the position where you moved the control, up to the position where playback is stopped. In other words, as soon as you move a control in Write mode, it remains “active” until you stop playback. • Make sure that you move only the controller you want to replace. Assigning remote key commands For some remote devices, you can assign any Cubase function (to which a key command can be assigned) to generic buttons, wheels, or other controls. PROCEDURE 1. Open the Device Setup dialog and select your remote device. On the right side of the window you will find a three column table. This is where you assign commands. 2. Use the Button column to locate a remote device control or button to which you wish to assign a Cubase function. 3. Click in the Category column for the control and select one of the Cubase function categories from the pop-up menu. 4. Click in the Command column and select the desired Cubase function from the pop-up menu. The available items on the pop-up menu depend on the selected category. 5. Click “Apply” when you are done. Click “Reset” to revert to the default settings. RESULT The selected function is now assigned to the button or control on the remote device.
Remote controlling Cubase The Generic Remote device 630 A note about remote controlling MIDI tracks While most remote control devices will be able to control both MIDI and audio channels in Cubase, the parameter setup may be different. For example, audio-specific controls (such as EQ) will be disregarded when controlling MIDI channels. Accessing device panel parameters via remote control devices (Cubase Pro only) Cubase allows you to control external MIDI devices through user device panels. When you have assigned project parameters to a device panel to be displayed in the MixConsole (i. e. when creating the panel, you must select the Channel Strip Size option in the Add Panel dialog), you can access these parameters through some of the remote control devices supported by Cubase. This feature is supported for the following devices: •Steinberg Houston • Mackie Control •Mackie HUI • Yamaha DM 2000 •CM Motormix •SAC2K These remote control devices provide an extra display page in the Inserts section for the selected channel. This page is called User and is displayed as the 9th insert page for audio channels and as the 5th insert page for MIDI channels. It allows you to control the parameters assigned to your user device panel from your remote control device. The Generic Remote device If you have a generic MIDI controller, you can use this for remote control of Cubase by setting up the Generic Remote device: PROCEDURE 1. Open the Device Setup dialog on the Devices menu. If the Generic Remote device is not on the Devices list, you need to add it.