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Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Setting Up Your System
- VST Connections
- Project Window
- Project Handling
- Tracks
- Track Handling
- Adding Tracks
- Removing Tracks
- Moving Tracks in the Track List
- Renaming Tracks
- Coloring Tracks
- Showing Track Pictures
- Setting the Track Height
- Selecting Tracks
- Duplicating Tracks
- Disabling Audio Tracks (Cubase Elements only)
- Organizing Tracks in Folder Tracks
- Handling Overlapping Audio
- How Events are Displayed on Folder Tracks
- Modifying Event Display on Folder Tracks
- Track Presets
- Parts and Events
- Range Editing
- Playback and Transport
- Virtual Keyboard
- Recording
- Quantizing MIDI and Audio
- Fades and crossfades
- Arranger Track (Cubase Elements only)
- Markers
- MixConsole
- Audio Effects
- Audio processing and functions
- Sample Editor
- Audio Part Editor
- Pool
- MediaBay
- Working With the MediaBay
- Setting Up the MediaBay
- Define Locations Section
- Scanning Your Content
- Updating the MediaBay
- Locations Section
- Results Section
- Previewer Section
- Filters Section
- Sound Browser and Mini Browser
- MediaBay Preferences
- MediaBay Key Commands
- Working with MediaBay-Related Windows
- Working With Volume Databases
- Automation
- VST Instruments
- Installing and Managing Plug-ins
- Remote controlling Cubase
- MIDI realtime parameters
- Using MIDI devices
- MIDI Processing
- MIDI Editors
- Chord Functions
- Chord Pads
- Editing tempo and signature
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- Video
- ReWire (not in Cubase LE)
- Key Commands
- File handling
- Customizing
- Optimizing
- Preferences
- Index
Using MIDI devices
MIDI devices – general settings and patch handling
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Commands
This pop-up menu lets you edit the selected device (provided that “Enable
Edit” is ticked). The patch structure for the selected device is shown on the
left side of the dialog.
MIDI Messages
This area on the right side of the dialog shows exactly which MIDI messages
are sent out to select the patch highlighted in the list to the left.
When you open the MIDI Device Manager for the first time, it will be empty (because
you have not installed any devices yet). On the following pages we describe how to
add a pre-configured MIDI device to the list, how to edit the settings and how to
define a device from scratch.
Note that there is an important difference between installing a preset MIDI device
(“Install Device”) and importing a MIDI device setup (“Import Setup”):
• The presets do not include any device mapping of parameters and controls
and no graphic panels.
They are simply patch name scripts. When you install a preset MIDI device, it
is added to the Installed Devices list. For more information about patch name
scripts, see the separate PDF document “MIDI Devices”.
• A device setup can include device mapping and/or patch information.
Device setups are also added to the list of installed devices when imported.
Defining a new MIDI device
If your MIDI device is not included in the list of pre-configured devices (and is not a
“plain” GM or XG device), you need to define it manually to make it possible to
select patches by name.
PROCEDURE
1. In the MIDI Device Manager, click the Install Device button.
The Add MIDI Device dialog opens.
2. Select “Define New…” and click OK.
A dialog appears.
3. Enter the name of the device and the MIDI channels you would like the device
to use and click OK.
The device appears in the Installed Devices list.
4. Select the device in the list.
As you can see, it currently contains only an Empty Bank item.
5. Make sure that the Enable Edit checkbox is activated.
Now you can use the functions on the Commands pop-up menu on the left to
organize the patch structure of the new device.