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The MIDI editors
Normally, MIDI devices allow you to dump (transmit) all or
some settings in the device’s memory in the form of MIDI
SysEx messages. A dump is therefore (among other
things) a way of making backup copies of the settings of
your instrument: sending such a dump back to the MIDI
device will restore the settings.
If your instrument allows the dumping of a few or all of its
settings via MIDI by activating some function on the front
panel, this dump will probably be recordable in Cubase.
1. Open the Preferences dialog from the File menu (on
the Mac, this is located on the Cubase menu) and select
the MIDI–MIDI Filter page.
This allows you to govern which MIDI event types are recorded and/or
thru-put.
2. Make sure that recording of SysEx data is not filtered,
by deactivating the SysEx checkbox in the Record section.
The SysEx checkbox in the Thru section can be left as it is
(by default activated).
This way, SysEx messages will be recorded but not echoed back out to
the instrument (which might lead to unpredictable results).
3. Activate recording on a MIDI track and initiate the
dump from the front panel of the instrument.
4. When done recording, select the new part and open
the List Editor from the MIDI menu.
This allows you to check that the SysEx dump was recorded – there
should be one or several SysEx events in the part/event list.
Transmitting a bulk dump back to a device
1. Make sure that the MIDI track with the System Exclusive
data is routed to the device.
You may want to check your device’s documentation to find details about
which MIDI channel should be used, etc.
2. Solo the track.
This might not be necessary, but it is a good safety measure.
3. Make sure that the device is set up to receive SysEx
messages (often, receiving SysEx is turned off by default).
4. If necessary, put the device in “Standby to Receive
System Exclusive” mode.
5. Play back the data.
Some advice
• Do not transmit more data than you need. If all you want
is a single program, do not send them all, it will only make
it harder to find the one you want. Usually, you can specify
exactly what you want to send.
• If you want the sequencer to dump the pertinent sounds
to your instrument each time you load a project, put the
SysEx data in a silent “count-in” before the project itself
starts.
!
If your MIDI instrument does not offer a way to initiate
a dump “by itself”, you have to send a Dump Request
message from Cubase to start the dump. In that case,
use the MIDI SysEx Editor (see “Editing SysEx mes-
sages” on page 409) to insert the specific Dump Re-
quest message (see the instrument’s documentation)
at the beginning of a MIDI track. When you activate
recording, the Dump Request message will be played
back (sent to the instrument), the dump will start and
be recorded as above.