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Remote controlling Cubase
• 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:
8. If necessary, make settings for another bank.
Note that you only need to make settings in the bottom table for this bank.
The table at the top is already set up according to the MIDI remote device.
• If necessary, you can add banks by clicking the Add
button below the Bank pop-up menu.
Clicking the Rename button allows you to assign a new name to the cur-
rently selected bank, and you can remove an unneeded bank by select-
ing it and clicking the Delete button.
9. When you are finished, close the Device Setup window.
Now, you can control the specified Cubase parameters from the MIDI re-
mote device. To select another bank, use the pop-up menu in the Generic
Remote window (or use a control on the MIDI remote device, if you have
assigned one for this).
Importing and exporting remote setups
The Export button in the top right corner of the Generic
Remote Setup window allows you to export the current
setup, including the Control configuration (the table at the
top) and all banks. The setup is saved as a file (with the file
extension “.xml”). Clicking the Import button allows you to
import saved remote setup files.
Ö The last imported or exported remote setup will auto-
matically be loaded when the program starts or the Ge-
neric Remote control is added in the Device Setup dialog.
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 parameter.
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.
Column Description
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.
Column Description