Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 MIDI Devices Studio Manual

MIDI Devices 

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Table of Contents 

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Table of Contents
5MIDI devices
6Background
6MIDI devices – general settings and patch handling
14About Device panels (Cubase only)
14Overview (Cubase only)
17The main edit windows (Cubase only)
20Operations in the Edit Panel window (Cubase only)
23Building a control panel – a tutorial (Cubase only)
29Advanced Panel handling
33Building panels for VST Instruments
34Exporting and importing device setups
(Cubase only)
34SysEx messages (Cubase only)
39Defining a SysEx device – a tutorial (Cubase only)...

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Background
The MIDI Device Manager allows you to specify and set up 
your MIDI devices, making global control and patch selec-
tion easy.
But the MIDI Device Manager also features powerful edit-
ing functions that can be used to create MIDI device pan-
els (Cubase only). MIDI device panels are internal 
representations of external MIDI hardware, complete with 
graphics. The MIDI device panel editor provides all the 
tools you need to create device maps where every para-
meter of an...

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Cubase Studio:
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 following 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.
ÖNote that there is an important difference between in-
stalling a preset MIDI device (“Install Device”) and import-
ing a MIDI device setup (“Import Setup”):
•The presets do not include any device...

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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-clicking and typing – this is useful if you have sev-
eral devices of the same model, and want to separate 
them by name instead of by number.
To remove...

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Selecting a patch for an installed device
If you return to the Project window at this point, you will 
find that the installed device has been added to the MIDI 
Output menus (in the track list and the Inspector). Now 
you can select patches by name, in the following way:
1.Pull down the Output menu (in the track list or Inspec-
tor) for a track that you want to play the installed device, 
and select the device.
This directs the track to the MIDI output specified for the device in the...

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Patch Structure
Patches are structured as follows:
 Banks are the main categories of sounds – typically patches, 
performances and drums, as described above.
 Each bank can contain any number of groups, represented by 
folders in the list.
 The individual patches, performances or drum kits are repre-
sented by presets in the list.
The Commands pop-up menu contains the following items:
Create Bank
Creates a new bank at the highest hierarchical level of the 
Patch Banks list. You can rename...