MIDI Devices

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MIDI devices
2. Activate Write automation on the device panel.
You can automate the device by either moving knobs and sliders on the
control panel or by drawing curves on the automation track for a selected
parameter.
3. If you now go back to the Project window, there will be
a MIDI Device Automation track in the Track list.
If the track is hidden, select “Show Used Automation” on the Track Fold-
ing submenu of the Project menu.
If you click in the name field, all parameters in the device
are shown and can be selected for automation.
• To open another automation track for the next parame-
ter on the pop-up menu, click the + button (“Append au-
tomation track”) at the bottom left of the automation track.
Ö If you wrote automation but your MIDI device is not yet
connected, the panel will not display any parameter
changes when playing back the track with the Read but-
ton activated.
The main edit windows (Cubase only)
To edit device panels you use two main windows; the De-
vice and the Edit Panel window. In this section we will de-
scribe the main working areas of these edit windows and
what they are used for.
The Device window
1. Select a device in the Installed Devices list in the MIDI
Device Manager and click Open Device.
The Device window opens with a node structure in the left half of the
window. In this example, the top node represents the device and the
subnodes the MIDI channels used by the device.
2. Click on a node.
Now three areas appear to the right of the node structure: Device Node,
Panels and Variables.
The Device window.
Device structure
On the left is a hierarchical view of the device’s structure,
which can consist of nodes, subnodes, and parameters.
By default, the structure of a newly created device (or a
device with no panels added yet) will either be based on
the MIDI channels that have been activated in the Create
New Device dialog (see “The Create New MIDI Device di-
alog” on page 12) or, as in this case, on one of the preset
devices, which all have the same structure (all 16 MIDI
channels activated).
In the Device structure, you can easily move parameters
between nodes by clicking and dragging them to the other
node. This is very handy if you want to restructure your pa-
rameters for the panel assignments.
You can also delete empty nodes and parameters by se-
lecting them and pressing [Delete] or [Backspace].