Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 MIDI Devices Studio Manual

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Adding objects
You build a panel by dragging objects from the Objects 
area on the right hand side of the window into the rectan-
gle in the edit area.
Assigning parameters
Parameters can be assigned to control elements (switches, 
faders, etc.). This is done in the Control Parameter Assign-
ment dialog. This dialog is opened automatically when you 
add a control object, but you can also open it later to 
change the assignment for existing objects.
When you add control objects, the...

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Using cut/copy/paste 
You can use standard key commands ([Ctrl]/[Command] 
+ [X], [Ctrl]/[Command]+[C], [Ctrl]/[Command]+[V]) or 
the corresponding Edit menu items to cut, copy and paste 
selected objects.
Deleting objects
Select any object(s) and hit [Backspace] or [Delete] or se-
lect “Delete” from the context menu.
Resizing objects
Click on any object to make resize handles appear. Click 
and move the handles to resize the object.
Sending objects to front/background
Select an object...

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Depth Focus
This is useful when editing very complex panels, or panels 
featuring nested views (subpanels). By enabling Depth 
Focus, you get a red rectangle around the area whose 
level is currently in edit focus. By double-clicking inside a 
subpanel, the red rectangle will mark the boundaries of 
the subpanel and you can only edit objects inside the fo-
cus area. For each double click, you go down one level. To 
go up one level, press [Return].
Use Raster
This activates an invisible...

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Adding a panel
In this example, we will select Channel 1 to add the panel.
1.Select the Channel 1 node and click the Add Panel 
button.
Now you can set a size for the panel – see “The Add Panel Dialog” on 
page 18 for details.
2.For this tutorial, select “Inspector size” and click OK.
The main Panel Edit window will now open. The blue rectangle is the 
panel edit area.
Adding a background
Now you can begin adding objects to the panel. Let’s start 
with a suitable background. Backgrounds...

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Adding control objects
1.Select “Knobs” from the Objects pop-up menu.
This brings up an assortment of rotary knobs.
2.Select one and drag it into the panel.
Once you have dropped a control into the edit area, the 
Control Parameter Assignment dialog will open. In this 
window you can define the parameters and other data 
pertaining to the control. 
3.Click the Create button in the bottom left corner. 
4.Enter a name.
Note that this is not the name of the control object itself, but the...

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Aligning control objects
You may find that the knobs aren’t properly aligned, hori-
zontally and/or vertically. The Panel Editor can assist you 
with this. 
1.Press [Shift] and click on both knobs to select them. 
2.Right-click (Win)/[Ctrl]-click (Mac) to open the con-
text menu, and you will see a range of alignment and spac-
ing commands. 
In this case we’re interested in vertical alignment, so we’ll choose Align 
Bottoms.
Now the bottom edges of the two objects are aligned ver-...

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Adding more background elements
1.Go back to Backgrounds on the Objects menu and 
drag one of the backgrounds to the edit area.
Since the most recently added object automatically ends up on top of all 
others, we must rearrange the order here. 
2.Select the object you just added, then right-click 
(Win)/[Ctrl]-click (Mac) to open the context menu. 
3.Choose “To Background” – this will send the object to 
the back.
At this point the object is no longer visible, simply because 
it ended up...

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Adding control objects – faders
The Triton has a slider called “Value” (commonly known as 
a data entry slider), whose function is doubled by two but-
tons, increase and decrease. To mimic these controls we 
need a Fader and a Data Entry object. 
1.Switch to Faders on the Objects menu, then drag and 
drop a vertical fader into the edit area.
The Parameter window appears. 
2.Create a new parameter called “Value” (CC 18, Gen-
eral Purpose 3).
To edit the “min” and “max” labels on the fader,...

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Testing the template and exiting the panel 
dialog
1.Activate the test mode by checking the “Test Tem-
plate” option at the top of the edit area.
This will make the panel “go live” and transmit MIDI data over the output 
port when you move the controls.
If everything appears to be functioning OK, we can con-
sider the panel completed, and it’s time to start using it! 
2.Click the Exit button on the Panel Edit window, and 
click Save in the dialog that appears.
Using the new device panel...

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Proceed as follows:
1.In the All Templates list, select the template (panel) you 
want to copy. 
2.Select the panel elements that you want to copy and 
press [Ctrl]/[Command]+[C].
When selecting various elements with the mouse, it can happen that the 
order of the elements gets lost. To avoid this, select the complete panel 
with [Ctrl]/[Command]+[A] to preserve this information during copying.
3.Open another template (or add a new panel) for this or 
another device.
4.Paste the copied...