Steinberg Nuendo 4 MIDI Devices Manual

MIDI Devices 

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Table of Contents 

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Table of Contents
5MIDI devices
6Background
6MIDI devices – general settings and patch
handling
13About Device panels
13Overview
16The main edit windows 
19Operations in the Edit Panel window
22Building a control panel – a tutorial
28Advanced Panel handling
32Building panels for VST Instruments
33Exporting and importing device setups
33SysEx messages 
38Defining a SysEx device – a tutorial
43Important files
46About Studio Connections
48Index 

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Background
The MIDI Device Manager allows you to specify and set up 
your MIDI devices, making global control and patch selec-
tion easy.
But the MIDI Device Manager also features powerful edit-
ing functions that can be used to create MIDI device pan-
els. 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 cre-
ate device maps where every parameter of an external de-
vice (and...

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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 following 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.
ÖNote that there is an important difference between in-
stalling a preset MIDI device (“Install Device”) and import-
ing a MIDI device setup (“Import Setup”):
•The presets do not include any device mapping of...

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About Patch Banks
Depending on the selected device, you may find that the 
Patch Banks list is divided in two or more main banks. 
Typically, these are called Patches, Performances, Drums 
etc. The reason for having several patch banks is that dif-
ferent “types” of patches are handled differently in the in-
struments. For example, while “patches” typically are 
“regular” programs that you play one at the time, “perfor-
mances” may be combinations of patches, which could 
e. g. be split...

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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 actual 
device:
1.In the MIDI Device Manager, select the device in the In-
stalled Devices list.
2.Click Open Device.
Make sure that Patch Banks is selected on the pop-up at the top...

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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, followed 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 Program Change after that.
To remove an event, select it and press [Delete] or 
[Backspace].
Add Multiple Presets
This opens a dialog, allowing you to set up a range of pre-...