Steinberg Nuendo 3 Working With MIDI Manual

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Renaming patches in a device
The pre-configured devices list is based on the factory-preset patches, 
i.e. the patches included in the device when you first bought it. If you 
have replaced some of the factory presets with your own patches, you 
need to modify the device so that the patch name list matches the ac-
tual device:
1.In the MIDI Device Manager, select the device in the Installed Devices 
list.
2.Click Open Device.
Make sure that Patch Banks is selected on the pop-up...

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Defining a new MIDI device
This section describes how to define a new MIDI device. 
If your MIDI device is not included in the list of pre-configured devices 
(and is not a “plain” GM or XG device), you need to define it manually 
to make it possible to select patches by name.
1.In the MIDI Device Manager, click the Install Device button.
The Add MIDI Device dialog appears.
2.Select “Define New...” and click OK.
The “Create New MIDI Device” dialog appears. For a description of...

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The Commands pop-up menu contains the following items:
Create Bank
Creates a new bank at the highest hierarchical level of the Patch Banks 
list. You can rename this by clicking on it and typing a new name.
New Folder
Creates a new subfolder in the selected bank or folder. This could 
correspond to a group of patches in the MIDI device, or just be a way 
for you to categorize sounds, etc. When you select this item, a name 
dialog will appear, allowing you to name the folder....

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•To add another MIDI event (e.g. Bank Select) click directly below the 
last event in the list and select a new event from the pop-up menu that 
appears.
After adding a new event, you need to set its value in the Value column, as with Program 
Change.
•To replace an event, click on it and select another event from the pop-
up menu.
For example, a MIDI device may require that a Bank Select message is sent first, fol-
lowed by a Program Change message, in which case you would...

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2.Use the Range column to set up either a fixed value or a range of val-
ues for each event type in the list.
This requires some explanation: 
If you specify a single value in the Range column (e.g. 3, 15 or 127), all added presets 
will have an event of this type set to the same value. 
If you instead specify a value range (a start value and an end value, separated by a 
dash, e.g. 0-63), the first added preset will have an event set to the start value, the next 
value will be...

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The Create New MIDI Device dialog
When you select “Define New” in the Add MIDI Device window, the 
Create New MIDI Device dialog opens.
• The dialog contains the following settings:
Item Description
Identical/Individual 
ChannelsHere you can specify which MIDI channels you wish the device to 
use. Identical channels share channel settings and parameters, 
whereas Individual channels are “exclusive”. An example for this 
are GM/XG devices – in these devices, the channels are all...

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About Device panels
On the following pages we will describe how to use MIDI Device panels 
and the powerful MIDI device panel editing features of the MIDI Device 
Manager.   

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Basic concept
The panel editing features in the MIDI Device Manager can be seen as 
a separate application or entity within Nuendo. It allows you build de-
vice maps complete with control panels, with all parameters controlla-
ble from within Nuendo. Building more complex device maps requires 
that you are familiar with SysEx programming (see page 193). But you 
can also create simpler panels by assigning MIDI Control Change mes-
sages to control objects, which does not require...

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Overview
Device panels in the program
In this section we shall take a look at a pre-configured MIDI device 
panel to illustrate how it can be used in Nuendo. Several device set-
ups complete with panels are included with the program.
•On the PC, these are located in the “Device Maps” folder inside the 
application folder. 
•On the Mac they can be found in the following location: (Startup Vol-
ume)/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Nuendo 3/Device Maps.
Opening a device...

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4.When you select a device and click OK, the device is added to the list 
of installed devices in the MIDI Device Manager. Select the correct 
MIDI output from the Output pop-up menu, select the device in the list 
and click “Open Device”.
The device control panel opens in a separate window. The Edit (“e”) button at the top 
opens the Edit Panel window, the main edit window, see page 170.
A device control panel representing an Access Virus synth.
5.Close the Device panel and...