MIDI Devices

Table Of Contents

MIDI devices

Depth Focus

This is useful when editing very complex panels, or panels

featuring nested views (subpanels). By enabling Depth

Focus, you get a red rectangle around the area whose

level is currently in edit focus. By double-clicking inside a

subpanel, the red rectangle will mark the boundaries of

the subpanel and you can only edit objects inside the fo-

cus area. For each double click, you go down one level. To

go up one level, press [Return].

Use Raster

This activates an invisible grid that objects will snap to

when moved. The value (5 by default) dictates the resolu-

tion of the grid. With a value of 20, the raster will be made

up of squares of 20*20 pixels in size. The raster is an-

chored in the top left corner of the actual panel (not in the

edit area).

Building a control panel – a tutorial

(Cubase only)

In this tutorial we will create a simple control panel for a

device in the following steps:

• “Installing a Device” on page 23

• “Adding a panel” on page 24

• “Adding a background” on page 24

• “Adding control objects” on page 25

• “Copying control objects” on page 25

• “Aligning control objects” on page 26

• “Defining parameters for control objects” on page 26

• “Adding more background elements” on page 27

• “Adding control objects – faders” on page 28

• “Adding control objects – switches” on page 28

• “Testing the template and exiting the panel dialog” on page 29

• “Using the new device panel in the Inspector” on page 29

Installing a Device

1. Open the MIDI Device Manager window, and click the

Install Device button.

Here you can choose from a list of pre-defined devices, or define a cus-

tom device. In this example we will use a Triton (Korg) preset.

2. Once you have installed the Triton (Korg) device, se-

lect it by clicking on its name in the Installed Devices list

and click Open Device.

Now you will see the Device structure to the left of the

window.