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Remote controlling Cubase
The Generic Remote device
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• 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 column),
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” option is automatically selected on the “MIDI
Status” pop-up menu. This allows you to use the different values of a Program
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:
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 opens a pop-up menu, allowing 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 transmitted 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 opens a pop-up menu, allowing 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.
Column Description