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 at the top of the window.
3.Activate the Enable Edit checkbox.
When this is turned off (default) you cannot edit the pre-configured devices.
4.Use the Patch Banks display to locate and select the patch you want 
to rename.
In many instruments, the user-editable patches are located in a separate group or bank.
5.Click on the selected patch in the Patch Banks list to edit its name.
6.Type in the new name and click OK.
7.Rename the desired patches in this way, and finish by deactivating 
Enable Edit again (to avoid modifying the device by accident).
• It’s fully possible to make more radical changes to the patch structure in 
a device as well (adding or deleting patches, groups or banks).
For example, this would be useful if you expanded your MIDI device by adding extra stor-
age media such as RAM cards, etc. The available editing functions are described below. 
						

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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 all the options in 
this list, see page 156. 
3.Activate the MIDI channels you would like the device to use in the 
Identical Channels” list.
This means that the device will receive Program Change over any MIDI channel. Iden-
tical and Individual channels are described on page 156.
4.Enter a name of the device at the top of the dialog, click [Enter] and 
then OK.
The device appears in the Installed Devices list.
5.Select the device in the list and click on the Open Device button.
The device node structure for the device is shown.
6.Select Patch Banks from the pop-up at the top of the window.
As you can see, the list is currently empty.
7.Make sure the Enable Edit checkbox is activated.
Now you can use the functions on the Commands pop-up menu to the left to organize 
the patch structure of the new device.
A patch structure is made out of the following components:
• Banks are the main categories of sounds – typically patches, performances 
and drums, as described above.
• Each bank can contain any number of groups, represented by folders in the list.
• The individual patches, performances or drum kits are represented by presets 
in the list. 
						

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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. You can also re-
name the folder afterwards by clicking it and typing in the list.
New Preset
This adds a new preset in the selected bank or folder. 
You can rename the preset by clicking it and typing a new name.
When the preset is selected, its corresponding MIDI events (Program 
Change, Bank Select, etc.) are shown in the event display to the right. 
The default setting for a new preset is Program Change 0 – to change 
this, use the following procedures:
For details on which MIDI events are used for selecting patches in the 
MIDI device, consult its documentation.
•To change which Program Change value should be sent out to select 
the patch, adjust the number in the Value column for the Program 
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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 need to replace the 
default Program Change message with a Bank Select message and add a new Pro-
gram Change after that.
•To remove an event, select it and press [Delete] or [Backspace].
Different devices use different schemes for Bank Select. When you in-
sert a Bank Select event, you should check the device’s documentation 
to find whether to choose “CC: BankSelect MSB”, “Bank Select 14 Bit”, 
“Bank Select 14 Bit MSB-LSB Swapped” or possibly some other option.
Add Multiple Presets
This opens a dialog, allowing you to set up a range of presets to be 
added in the selected bank or folder.
Proceed as follows:
1.Add the event types required for selecting a patch in the MIDI device.
This is done just as when editing the settings for a single event: clicking in the event 
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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 incrementally raised by one and so on, up to and including the end value.
• The number of added presets depends on the Range setting.
This example will generate eight presets, each with a Bank Select event set to 2, 
but with different Program Change events (ranging from 0 to 7).
3.Specify a Default Name below the event display.
The added events will get this name, followed by a number. You can rename presets 
manually in the Patch Banks list later.
4.Click OK.
A number of new presets are now added in the selected bank or folder, according to 
your settings.
Other editing functions
• You can move presets between banks and folders by dragging them in the 
Patch Banks list.
• You can remove a bank, folder or preset by selecting it in the Patch Banks list 
and pressing [Backspace].
• If you specify more than one bank, a Bank Assignment item will be added to 
the pop-up menu at the top of the window. Use this to assign banks to the dif-
ferent MIDI channels (see page 149).  
						

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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 iden-
tical, except channel 10, which is always the drum channel.
Channel Settings This specifies which MIDI messages should be supported by the 
MIDI device (for each Identical channel).
Preset Type Preset References contain the patch name and a corresponding 
MIDI message (typically Program Change/Bank Select). Snapshots 
also contain a patch name but in addition complete parameter set-
tings, which are reset when such a preset patch is recalled.
Global Settings 
SysEx ParametersActivate this checkbox if you wish the device to use System Exclu-
sive messages.
Global Settings
SnapshotsThis specifies whether the device supports global snapshots, 
which memorize all parameters in a device.  
						

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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 any programming 
skills.
Although these powerful editing features are there if you need them, 
you do not have to use them to use MIDI devices.
Cubase users may recall the MIDI Mixer, which allowed you to create 
similar control setups, called Mixer maps. Third-party developers cre-
ated Mixer Maps for hundreds of popular devices at that time.
But now, this concept has been taken to a higher level, offering a much 
deeper and more intuitive integration of the control features in the pro-
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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 setup
Proceed as follows to open a MIDI device setup:
1.Open the MIDI Device Manager from the Devices menu.
2.Click the “Import Setup” button.
A file dialog opens, where you can select XML files (the file format 
used for device setups) for import by navigating to the Device Maps 
folder (see above).
3.When you select a device setup XML file and click Open, the Import 
MIDI Devices dialog appears where you can select a device for import.
A device setup file can contain one or several MIDI devices.  
						

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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 return to the Project window.