Steinberg Cubase SX/SL 3 MIDI Devices And Features Manual

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43.Now click the User Panel tab at the bottom of the Inspector. 
Click the button to open the Device structure and choose the appropriate panel.
Done! Now the device panel is displayed in the Inspector and ready 
for automation recording.   

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Exporting and importing device setups 
(Cubase SX 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 im-
ported using the Import Setup button. This is useful if you move to an-
other studio, install the program on a new computer, etc.
•When you import a stored setup with the Import Setup function, a dialog 
will appear, listing all devices included in the stored setup.
Select the...

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Defining a SysEx device – a tutorial (Cubase SX 
only)
On the following pages, the basic concepts of the MIDI devices are 
described, so that you will be able to create your own ones later.
If you want to define a SysEx device, it is absolutely vital that you have 
the manual for the hardware device, which describes its MIDI defini-
tions. Usually, these settings are described on the last few pages of 
the manual: watch out for small letters and lots of tables referencing...

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3.The Create New MIDI Device dialog appears. Set it up as shown in 
the following picture:
4.Click OK. 
Now, the device editor will open with an empty Roland JV-1080 device displayed to 
the left.
This is the “root” 
of the device, which 
stands for the device 
as a whole.   

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5.Now, you need to create subsections (Device Nodes) for the device. 
Click the “Add Subnodes” button and in the dialog that appears, type 
in “System” in the Name field.
•“System” can be found as a separate table in the MIDI definition part 
of the JV-1080 manual. It’s almost always a good idea to create a 
separate device node for each table in the MIDI definition of a device.
6.When you click OK, the new subnode is added in the device editor.
7.Repeat the two steps...

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The “System” table contains 17 references to another table called 
“Scale Tune”. So we need to add 17 more subnodes, but this time, 
we will proceed differently: we’ll create 17 similar subnodes at once.
8.Click the “Add Subnodes” button again.
In the dialog that appears, enter Scale Tune as name, check the Create Multiple 
checkbox, enter “Part” as Variable name and set the Variable range to 1-17. When you 
click OK, 17 new subnodes are created:
The added subnodes all...

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11.According to the MIDI definition, the “Scale Tune” table contains 12 
parameters. All of them are named “Scale Tune for XX”, where XX 
stands for the different notes in an octave. The parameter range of 
these parameters is from 0 to 127 and all are set to the default value 
64. Fill in the Name, Min, Max and Default fields accordingly. Next, ac-
tivate the “Create Multiple” checkbox and set the Variable Range to 
“0-11”, which is the address range of the 12...

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12.Click the Create Sysex button…
…and be prepared for a dive into the deep waters of ancient MIDI mythology. You’d 
better take a deep breath before…
…the “Create Sysex” dialog appears.
•In the MIDI definition part of the MIDI device’s manual, you should be 
able to find sysex message definitions. Look out for messages that al-
low you to set individual parameters according to the tables mentioned 
earlier. In case of the JV-1080, you’ll find this definition 1 or 2 pages...

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14.Enter “12” in the Length value box.
•It is important to set “Length” and “Checksum” at the beginning, other-
wise you may need to do the additional steps again.
If you look at the sysex definition table, you’ll notice upper and lower 
case letters in the “Status” column. Upper case letters stand for static 
hexadecimal numbers (indicated by the “H” suffix). Lower case letters 
stand for variable numbers that depend on the context. In the “Create 
Sysex” dialog, “Values”...

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18.Reduce the number of bits to “4” and enter “10” in the Hex row at po-
sition 2, because the device ID ranges from 10H to 1FH.
19.Next, remove Value 3 and Value 4 and enter the right Values (6A and 
12) in the Hex row.
20.Finally, rename Values 5 to 9 according to the Sysex definition table.
The dialog should now be set up like this:
21.Now, click OK, to return to the world of the living…