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Remote controlling Cubase
5. Use the pop-up menu to the right to select a bank.
Banks are combinations of a certain number of channels, and are used be-
cause most MIDI devices can control only a limited number of channels at
a time (often 8 or 16). For example, if your MIDI control device has 16 vol
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ume faders, and you are using 32 Mixer channels in Cubase, you would
need two banks of 16 channels each. When the first bank is selected you
can control channel 1 to 16; when the second Bank is selected you can
control channel 17 to 32.
6. Set up the table at the top according to the controls
on your MIDI control device.
The columns have the following functionality:
• If you find that the table at the top holds too many or too
few controls, you can add or remove controls with the Add
and Delete buttons to the right of the table.
• If you are uncertain of which MIDI message a certain
controller sends, you can use the Learn function.
Select the control in the upper table (by clicking in the Control Name co-
lumn), move the corresponding control on your MIDI device and click the
Learn button to the right of the table. The MIDI Status, MIDI Channel, and
Address values are automatically set to those of the moved control.
• If you use the Learn function for a control that sends a
Program Change value, the “Prog. Change Trigger” op-
tion is automatically selected on the “MIDI Status” pop-up
menu. This allows you to use the different values of a Pro
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gram Change parameter to control different parameters in
Cubase.
If this does not give you the result you want, try using the “Prog. Change”
value instead.
7. Use the table at the bottom to specify which Cubase
parameters you want to control.
Each row in the table is associated to the controller in the corresponding
row in the first table (as indicated by the Control Name column). The
other columns have the following functionality:
Column Description
Control Name Double-clicking this field allows you to enter a descriptive
name for the control (typically a name written on the con
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sole). This name is automatically reflected in the Control
Name column in the lower table.
MIDI Status Clicking in this column opens a pop-up menu, allowing you
to specify the type of MIDI message sent by the control
(e.
g. Controller, Prog. Change Trigger).
The NRPN and RPN controllers are part of the MIDI spec-
ification and present a way to extend the available control
messages. The “Ctrl JLCooper” option is a special version
of a Continuous Controller where the 3rd byte of a MIDI
message is used as address instead of the 2nd byte (a
method supported by various JL-Cooper remote devices).
For a description of the Ctrl-Houston status value, see the
Steinberg Houston hardware manual.
MIDI Channel Clicking in this column opens a pop-up menu, allowing
you to select the MIDI channel on which the controller is
transmitted.
Address The Continuous Controller number, the pitch of a note, or
the address of a NRPN/RPN Continuous Controller.
Max. Value The maximum value the control will transmit. This value is
used by the program to “scale” the value range of the
MIDI controller to the value range of the program para
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meter.
Flags Clicking in this column pulls down a pop-up menu, allow-
ing you to activate or deactivate three flags:
Receive – activate this if the MIDI message should be
processed on reception.
Transmit – activate this if a MIDI message should be trans-
mitted when the corresponding value in the program
changes.
Relative – activate this if the control is an “endless” rotary
encoder, which reports the number of turns instead of an
absolute value.
Column Description
Device Clicking in this column opens a pop-up menu, used for
determining which device in Cubase is controlled. The
special “Command” option allows you to perform certain
command actions by remote control. One example of this
is the selection of remote banks.
Channel/
Category
This is where you select the channel to be controlled or, if
the “Command” Device option is selected, the Command
category.
Value/Action Clicking in this column pulls down a pop-up menu, allow-
ing you to select the parameter of the channel to be
controlled (typically, if the “VST Mixer” Device option is
selected, you can choose between volume, pan, send
levels, EQ, etc.).
If the “Command” Device option is selected, this is where
you specify the “Action” of the category.
Flags Clicking in this column pulls down a pop-up menu, allow-
ing you to activate or deactivate three flags:
Push Button – When activated, the parameter is only
changed if the received MIDI message shows a value
unequal to 0.
Toggle – When activated, the parameter value is switched
between minimum and maximum value each time a MIDI
message is received. The combination of Push Button and
Toggle is useful for remote controls which do not latch the
state of a button. One example is controlling mute status
with a device on which pressing the Mute button turns it
on, and releasing the Mute button turns it off. If Push But
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ton and Toggle are activated, the Mute status will change
between on and off whenever the button is pressed on the
console.
Not Automated – When activated, the parameter will not
be automated.