Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 MIDI Devices Studio Manual

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The Channel panel is also listed under “All Templates”.
Combining subpanels
It is now possible to drag a subnode’s panel from the 
Views area into the panel of a parent node, thus assem-
bling a complex panel by referencing the subpanels.
1.Click on the node “MotifMixer” and add a new panel in 
general size. 
Click on the node “Channel 1”, so that the Channel panel 
appears in the Views area. Click on this entry and drag it 
into the Edit area.2.Repeat this for Channel 2 and 3 by dragging...

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Combining subpanels of individual channels
In the example above, we assembled a MIDI device panel 
by building only one panel for 16 identical channels. How-
ever, you often may want individual channels (nodes), 
each coming with its own panels and parameters.
A good example for this would be the TC Electronics Final-
izer, which can be found in the factory panel configurations. 
The Finalizer MIDI device panel.
Import the device and open it by clicking on the Edit (“e”) 
button. You can...

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ÖTherefore, even if you set up e. g. ten channels at first 
with the Snapshots option activated in the Channel Set-
tings, once you manually add new channels, the Channel 
Snapshots option is always deactivated for those new 
channels.
If in doubt, select both snapshot options. 
Using snapshots
If you activated a “Snapshots” option during the setup of a 
new device (see “Defining a new MIDI device” on page 11), 
an additional list field appears on top of the Device and 
Panel windows, to...

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Exporting and importing device 
setups (Cubase only)
Clicking the Export Setup button allows you to export your 
complete MIDI device setup as a separate XML file. The 
file can then be imported using the Import Setup button. 
This is useful if you move to another studio, install the pro-
gram on a new computer, etc.
ÖExporting the setup will produce one XML file that in-
cludes all of your installed devices. 
On how to export a single device, see “Exporting a single device” on 
page 44....

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4.In the Transmission area, click on the Create SysEx 
button on the right of the Transmission list. 
The Create SysEx window opens. As you can see, you can edit each byte 
on its own, in hexadecimal, decimal or binary – or assign a value to it. 
5.Enter a new name for the parameter, for example “Test 
Parameter”, and click OK to return to the Add Parameter 
window. 
In principle, this is how SysEx messages are set up. The 
tricky part is how to enter the correct values (see “Input 
data...

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Definable values as variables
The definable values (Var 1 and Var 2 in this example) are 
just that – definable as you like. This is done in the For-
mula column of the Add Parameter window.
You can enter parameters, mathematical fomulas with or 
without parameters, and static values.
The allowed mathematical operations are
 “+” (addition)
 “-” (subtraction)
 “*” (multiplication) 
 “()” (parentheses, for small calculations)
ÖNote that the values in the Formula column have to be 
entered...

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Using normal values (Example)
Sometimes, values higher than one byte are necessary to 
address something, e. g. sample numbers (Sample NR) 
from 0-255 (0000 xxxx to 0000 yyyy in binary).
In this case, the value x effectively consists of two bytes, 
called XX and YY here:
F0 23 12 6B PT Fn XX YY F7 
These two bytes need to be set up so that they result in 
one value. For this, you have to change the settings for the 
Normal Value. Proceed as follows:
1.Define a new SysEx message for...

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In the following example we want to define two indepen-
dent values in byte 6:
The first value is “LFO Type” and uses the first three bits 
(the very first bit of every byte is 0 per definition, except for 
the start and end byte of the SysEx message). 
The second value is “LFO Phase” and uses four bits of 
the byte. 
This has to result in a byte 6 structure of “0xxx xxxx“.
Proceed as follows:
1.Create a new Sysex message of length 9. Remove all 
values besides 6 and 7.
2.Click on Value...

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Defining a SysEx device – a tutorial 
(Cubase only)
In this tutorial, we will define a new MIDI device that pro-
vides access to the parameters of a Roland JV-1080 in 
the following steps:
“Creating a new MIDI device” on page 39
“Creating subnodes” on page 39
“Creating several subnodes at once” on page 40
“Adding parameters” on page 40
“Defining SysEx messages” on page 41
“Editing the Formula” on page 42
“Editing Scale Tune 1” on page 43
“Adding parameters to another node” on page 43...

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3.Repeat the two steps above to create the subnode 
“System Common”, which is also a separate table in the 
MIDI Definition section in the JV-1080 manual and is ref-
erenced by the “System” table.
Creating several subnodes at once
The “System” table contains 17 references to another ta-
ble called “Scale Tune”. So we need to add 17 more sub-
nodes, but this time, we will proceed differently: we’ll 
create 17 similar subnodes at once.
1.Click the “Add Subnodes” button again.
In the dialog...