Steinberg Cubase SE 3 MIDI Devices And Features Manual

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Logical Presets, Transformer
and Input Transformer 

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Introduction
About the Logical Presets
Most of the time you will probably perform your MIDI editing graphi-
cally, from one of the main graphic editors. But there are times when 
you want more of a “search and replace” function on MIDI data, and 
that’s where the Logical Presets come in and allow you to perform 
very powerful processing.
The Logical Presets are found in the MIDI menu.
•To apply a preset, select it from the Logical Presets...

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Setting up filter conditions
General procedure
The upper list is where you set up the filter conditions, determining 
which events to find. The list contains one or several conditions, each 
on a separate line.
• If you want to start from scratch (as opposed to basing your settings on 
an existing preset) you may want to initialize the settings by clicking the 
Init button.
•To add a new line (condition) click the Add Line button to the...

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Conditions
The options in the Condition column have the following meaning (note 
that the available Condition options depend on the Filter Target setting):
• The Conditions for the “Property” filter target are different, see page 58.
Below, the different Filter Targets (and their corresponding Condition 
and Parameter options) are described in more detail.
Parameter 2 This column is only used if you have selected one of the “Range” op-...

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Searching for notes of certain lengths
Only note events have lengths (actually, a note is made up of separate 
note-on and note-off events but in Cubase SE it’s considered as a 
single event with a length). Therefore, the “Length” Filter Target is only 
valid if you’re specifically searching for notes – there has to be another 
condition line with the Filter Target “Type”, Condition “Equal” and Pa-
rameter 1 set to “Note”. See page 60 for...

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The general procedures when searching for value 1 or 2 are:
• If you select any Condition other than the Range options, you set up a specific 
value in the Parameter 1 column.
Here, the Logical Editor will find all events with a value 2 less than 80.
• If you select the Inside or Outside Range option in the Condition column, the 
range consists of the values between Parameter 1 and Parameter 2.
Note that Parameter 1 should have the lower...

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Searching for MIDI channels
Each MIDI event contains a MIDI channel setting (1-16). Normally, 
these settings are not used, since the MIDI event plays back on the 
MIDI channel set for its track. However, you can come across MIDI 
parts with events set to different channels in the following scenarios 
for example:
• If you have recorded MIDI from an instrument sending on several different 
channels (e.g. a master keyboard with different...

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Searching for properties
On the Filter Target pop-up menu you will find an option called Prop-
erty. This allows you to search for properties that are not part of the 
MIDI standard but rather event-specific Cubase SE settings.
When the Property option is selected, the Condition column has two 
options: “Property is set” and “Property is not set”. Which property to 
look for is selected in the Parameter 1 column. The options are “muted”...

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Searching for event contexts
On the Filter Target pop-up menu you will find an option called “Last 
Event”. This can be used to perform context dependant searches.
"Last Event" indicates the state of an event which has already passed 
the Input Transformer. The condition has to be combined with Para-
meter 1 and Parameter 2. 
A few examples on how the Last Event filter target can used:
Here, the action will only be performed when...

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Combining multiple condition lines
As described above, you can add condition lines by clicking the Add 
Line button to the right of the list. The result of combining condition 
lines depends on the boolean And/Or operators.
The bool column
By clicking in the “bool” column to the right in the list, you can select 
a boolean operator: “And” or “Or”. A boolean operator separates two 
condition lines and determines the result in the following...