Steinberg Cubase SE 3 MIDI Devices And Features Manual

 
MIDI Devices and Features  

 
Original Manual: Synkron
Revision and Quality Control: C. Bachmann, H. Bischoff, S. Pfeifer, C. Schomburg
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Table of Contents 

 
CUBASE SE
 4 Table of Contents 
5MIDI devices 
6Background
6MIDI devices – general settings and patch handling 
17MIDI effects 
18Introduction
19Arpache 5
21Autopan
23Chorder
26Compress
27Density
27Micro Tuner
28MIDIControl
29MIDIEcho
32Note to CC
33Quantizer
34Step Designer
38Track Control
42Track FX
42Transformer 
43Working with System Exclusive messages 
44Introduction
44Bulk dumps
47Recording System Exclusive parameter changes
48Editing System Exclusive messages 
51Logical Presets, Transformer and...

 
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MIDI devices 

 
CUBASE SE
 
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Background
 
The MIDI Device Manager allows you to specify and set up your MIDI 
devices, making global control and patch selection easy. 
MIDI devices – general settings and patch 
handling
 
On the following pages, we will describe how to install and set up 
preset MIDI devices, and how to select patches by name from within 
Cubase SE. This section also describes how to create a MIDI device 
from scratch. 
About program change and bank select
 
To instruct a MIDI...

 
CUBASE SE
 
MIDI devices 1 – 7 
Unfortunately, different instrument manufacturers use different schemes 
for how Bank Select messages should be constructed, which can lead 
to some confusion and make it hard to select the correct sound. Also, 
selecting patches by numbers this way seems unnecessarily cumber-
some, when most instruments use names for their patches nowadays.
To help with this, you can use the MIDI Device Manager to specify 
which MIDI instruments you have connected, by selecting from a...

 
CUBASE SE
 
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Installing a MIDI device
 
There is an important difference between installing a preset MIDI de-
vice and importing a MIDI device setup:  
•  
The presets available in the Install Device dialog do not include any 
device mapping of parameters and controls and no graphic panels. 
They are simply patchname scripts. When you install a preset MIDI device it is added 
to the Installed Devices list.
 
• 
A device setup can include device mapping, panels and/or patch infor-...

 
CUBASE SE
 
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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’s 
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 click-
ing and typing – this is useful if you have several devices of the same 
model, and want to separate them by name instead...

 
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About Patch Banks
 
Depending on the selected device, you may find that the Patch Banks 
list is divided in two or more main banks. Typically, these are called 
Patches, Performances, Drums etc. The reason for having several 
patch banks is that different “types” of patches are handled differently 
in the instruments. For example, while “patches” typically are “regular” 
programs that you play one at the time, “performances” may be com-
binations of patches, which could...