Steinberg Cubase SX/SL 3 MIDI Devices And Features Manual

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MIDI effects 

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Introduction
This chapter describes the included MIDI realtime effects and their 
parameters.
How to apply and handle MIDI effects is described in the chapter 
“MIDI realtime parameters and effects” in the Operation Manual. 

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Arpache 5
A typical arpeggiator accepts a chord (a group of MIDI notes) as in-
put, and plays back each note in the chord separately, with the play-
back order and speed set by the user. The Arpache 5 arpeggiator 
does just that, and more. Before describing the parameters, let’s look 
at how to create a simple, typical arpeggio:
1.Select a MIDI track and activate monitoring (or record enable it) so 
that you can play “thru” the track.
Check that the track is properly set...

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Parameters
The Arpache 5 has the following settings:
Setting Description
Playmode buttons Allows you to select the playback order for the arpeggiated 
notes. The options are down+up, up+down, up, down, random 
(“?” button) and “Order off”, in which case you can set the play-
back order manually with the Play Order fields below.
Quantize Determines the speed of the arpeggio, as a note value related to 
the project tempo. The range is 32T (1/32 note triplets) to 1. 
(dotted...

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Arpache SX (Cubase SX only)
This is an even more versatile and advanced arpeggiator, capable of 
creating anything from traditional arpeggios to complex, sequencer-
like patterns. The Arpache SX has the following parameters:
Parameter Description
Arp Style Determines the basic behaviour of the Arpache SX. In the Seq 
mode, the arpeggiator uses an imported MIDI part as a starting 
point for the pattern – this is described below. All other modes 
describe how the notes in...

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Seq mode
When Seq mode is selected in the Arp Style section, the Arpache SX 
uses an additional MIDI part as a pattern. This pattern then forms the 
basis for the arpeggio, in conjunction with the MIDI input.
•To import a MIDI part into the Arpache SX, drag it from the Project win-
dow and drop it in the “Drop a MIDI Part” section on the Arpache SX.
Now, the notes in the dropped MIDI part will be sorted internally, either 
according to their pitch (“Sort Phrase by Pitch”...

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The two lists of numbers will now be matched – the Arpache SX tries 
to play back the pattern from the dropped MIDI file but using the notes 
from the MIDI input (chord). The result depends on the Trigger Mode 
setting:
Finally, the Play Mode setting affects the resulting arpeggio. Note also 
that you can choose to keep the original note timing, note length and 
note velocities from the dropped MIDI part, by selecting “Source” in the 
Quantize and Length fields, and “Seq”...

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Autopan
This plug-in works a bit like an LFO in a synthesizer, allowing you to 
send out continuously changing MIDI controller messages. One typi-
cal use for this is automatic MIDI panning (hence the name), but you 
can select any MIDI Continuous Controller event type. The Autopan 
effect has the following parameters:
Waveform selectors
These determine the shape of the controller curves sent out. The re-
sults of most of these waveforms are obvious from looking at the...

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Density
This determines the density of the controller curves sent out. The 
value can be set in ticks (1/480ths of quarter notes), or as rhythmically 
exact note values (by clicking the arrow buttons next to the value). The 
higher the note value, the smoother the controller curve. For example, 
if you set this to 60 (shown as “32th”) a new controller event will be 
sent out every 60th tick (at every 1/32 note position).
You should probably avoid extremely low Density...

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Chorder
The Chorder is a MIDI chord processor, allowing you to assign com-
plete chords to single keys in a multitude of variations. There are three 
main modes of operation: Normal, Octave and Global. You switch be-
tween these modes by clicking the respective button to the left below 
the keyboard.
Normal mode
In this mode, you can assign a different chord to each single key on 
the keyboard. Proceed as follows:
1.Select the key to which you want to assign a chord, by...