Steinberg Cubase SX/SL 3 MIDI Devices And Features Manual

 
MIDI Devices and Features 

 
Manual by Anders Nordmark
Quality Control: C. Bachmann, H. Bischoff, S. Pfeifer, C. Schomburg
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Table of Contents 

 
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4Table of Contents 
5MIDI devices 
6Background
7MIDI devices – general set-
tings and patch handling
20About Device panels 
(Cubase SX only)
21Overview (Cubase SX only)
28The main edit windows 
(Cubase SX only)
34Operations in the Edit Panel 
window (Cubase SX only)
39Building a control panel – a 
tutorial (Cubase SX only)
52Exporting and importing 
device setups (Cubase SX 
only)
53Defining a SysEx device – a 
tutorial (Cubase SX only)
67About Studio Connections 
(Cubase SX only)...

 
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MIDI devices 

 
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Background
 
The MIDI Device Manager allows you to specify and set up your MIDI 
devices, making global control and patch selection easy.
But the MIDI Device Manager also features powerful editing functions 
that can be used to create MIDI device panels (Cubase SX 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...

 
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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 SX/SL. This section also describes how to create a MIDI de-
vice 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...

 
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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...

 
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SL:
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. 
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...

 
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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....