Steinberg Cubase SE 3 MIDI Devices And Features Manual

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Autopan
This plug-in works a bit like an LFO in a synthesizer, allowing you to 
send out continuously changing MIDI controller messages. One typi-
cal use for this is automatic MIDI panning (hence the name), but you 
can select any MIDI Continuous Controller event type. The Autopan 
effect has the following parameters:
Waveform selectors
These determine the shape of the controller curves sent out. The results 
of most of these waveforms are obvious from looking at the...

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Density
This determines the density of the controller curves sent out. The 
value can be set in ticks (1/480ths of quarter notes), or as rhythmically 
exact note values (by clicking the arrow buttons next to the value). The 
higher the note value, the smoother the controller curve. For example, 
if you set this to 60 (shown as “32th”) a new controller event will be 
sent out every 60th tick (at every 1/32 note position).
You should probably avoid extremely low Density values,...

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Chorder
The Chorder is a MIDI chord processor, allowing you to assign com-
plete chords to single keys in a multitude of variations. There are three 
main modes of operation: Normal, Octave and Global. You switch be-
tween these modes by clicking the respective button to the left below 
the keyboard.
Normal mode
In this mode, you can assign a different chord to each single key on 
the keyboard. Proceed as follows:
1.Select the key to which you want to assign a chord, by...

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Octave mode
The Octave mode is similar to the Normal mode, but you can only set 
up one chord for each key in an octave (that is, twelve different chords). 
When you play a C note (regardless of whether it’s a C3, C4 or any 
other octave) you will hear the chord set up for the C key.
Global mode
In the Global mode, you only set up a single chord, using the Chord 
Setup keyboard display (the lower keyboard display is hidden). This 
chord is then played by all keys on the...

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Using switches
The Switch Setup section at the bottom of the panel allows you to set 
up variations to the defined chords. This works with all three modes 
and provides a total of eight variations for each assignable key (that is, 
a maximum of 8 different chords in Global mode, 12x8 chords in Oc-
tave mode and 128x8 chords in Normal mode).
The variations can be controlled by velocity or note range. Here’s how 
you set it up:
1.Select one of the two switch modes: velocity or...

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•To turn the variation switch feature off, select the “No Switch” mode.
Compress
This MIDI compressor is used for evening out or expanding differences 
in velocity. Though the result is similar to what you get with the Velocity 
Compression track parameter, the Compress plug-in presents the con-
trols in a manner more like regular audio compressors. The parameters 
are:
Note In this mode, the chorder will play one chord at a time – you cannot 
play several different chords...

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Density
This generic control panel affects the “density” of the notes being 
played from (or thru) the track. When this is set to 100%, the notes are 
not affected. Lowering the Density setting below 100% will randomly 
filter out or “mute” notes. Raising the setting above 100% will instead 
randomly add new notes.
Micro Tuner
The Micro Tuner lets you set up a different microtuning scheme for the 
instrument, by detuning each key. 
• Each Detune field corresponds to a key in...

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MIDIControl
This generic control panel allows you to select up to eight different 
MIDI controller types, and use the value fields/sliders to set values for 
these. A typical use for this would be if you’re using a MIDI instrument 
with parameters that can be controlled by MIDI controller data (e.g. fil-
ter cutoff, resonance, levels, etc.). By selecting the correct MIDI con-
troller types, you can use the plug-in as a control panel for adjusting 
the sound of the instrument...

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MIDIEcho
This is an advanced MIDI Echo, which will generate additional echo-
ing notes based on the MIDI notes it receives. It creates effects similar 
to a digital delay, but also features MIDI pitch shifting and much more. 
As always it is important to remember that the effect doesn’t “echo” 
the actual audio, but the MIDI notes which will eventually produce the 
sound in the synthesizer.
The following parameters are available:
Quantize
The echoed notes will be moved in...

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Repeat
This is the number of echoes (1 to 12) from each incoming note.
Echo-Quant.
The Echo-Quant. parameter sets the delay time, i.e. the time between 
a played note and its first echo note. You can either use the slider or 
type to set the value in ticks (1/480 ticks of quarter notes) or click the 
arrow buttons to step between the “rhythmically exact” delay times 
(displayed as note values – see the table below). 
For example, setting this to “8th” will cause the echo...