Steinberg Cubase SE 3 MIDI Devices And Features Manual
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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 Input Transformer 52Introduction 53Setting up filter conditions 61Selecting a function 62Specifying actions 65Applying the defined actions 65The Input Transformer 69Index
CUBASE SE 1 – 6 MIDI devices 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 instrument to select a certain patch (sound), you send a MIDI Program Change message to the instrument. Program Change messages can be recorded or entered in a MIDI part like other events, but you can also enter a value in the Program (prg) field in the Inspector for a MIDI track. This way, you can quickly set each MIDI track to play a different sound. With Program Change messages, you are able to select between 128 different patches in your MIDI device. However, many MIDI instruments contain a larger number of patch locations. To make these available from within Cubase SE, you need to use Bank Select messages, a sys- tem in which the programs in a MIDI instrument are divided into banks, each bank containing 128 programs. If your instruments support MIDI Bank Select, you can use the Bank (bnk) field in the Inspector to select a bank, and then the Program field to select a program in this bank.
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 vast list of existing devices or by specifying the details yourself. Once you have specified which MIDI devices you’re using, you can select to which particular device each MIDI track should be routed. It is then possible to select patches by name in the track list or Inspector. Opening the MIDI Device Manager Select MIDI Device Manager from the Devices menu to bring up the following window: When you open the MIDI Device Manager for the first time, it will be empty (because you haven’t installed any devices yet). On the follow- ing pages we describe how to add a pre-configured MIDI device to the list, how to edit the settings and how to define a device from scratch. This is the list of MIDI devices you have connected. The first time you open the MIDI Device Manager, this list will be empty.These buttons let you manage the list of installed devices. This pop-up menu lets you edit the se- lected device (pro- vided that “Enable Edit” is ticked). Here, the patch structure is shown for the device selected above. This area shows exactly which MIDI messages should be sent out to se- lect the patch high- lighted in the list to the left.Here you specify to which MIDI output the selected device is connected.
CUBASE SE 1 – 8 MIDI devices 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- mation. Device setups are also added to the list of installed devices when imported. To install a preset MIDI device, proceed as follows: 1. Click the Install Device button. A dialog appears listing all pre-configured MIDI devices. For now we assume that your MIDI device is included in this list. 2. Locate and select the device in the list and click OK. • If your MIDI device isn’t included in the list but is compatible with the GM (General MIDI) or XG standards, you can select the generic GM or XG Device options at the top of the list. When you select one of these options, a name dialog will appear. Enter a name for the instrument and click OK. Now the device appears in the Installed Devices list to the left. 3. Make sure that the new device is selected in the list and pull down the Output pop-up menu. 4. Select the MIDI output that is connected to the device. 5. Select Patch Banks from the pop-up at the top of the window.
CUBASE SE MIDI devices 1 – 9 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 of by number. • To remove a device from the Installed Devices list, select it and click Remove Device.
CUBASE SE 1 – 10 MIDI devices 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 e.g. be split across the keyboard, layered or used for multitimbral playback. For devices with several banks, you will find an additional item labeled Bank Assignment. Selecting this opens a window in which you can 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 (see be- low). For example, many instruments use MIDI channel 10 as an exclu- sive drum channel, in which case you would want to select the “Drums” (or “Rhythm Set”, “Percussion”, etc.) bank for channel 10 in this list. This would then let you select between different drum kits in the track list or Inspector.