3.0

CUBASE SE
Working with System Exclusive messages 3 – 47
• If you create parts with useful “SysEx dumps”, you can put these on a special
muted track. When you want to use one of them, drag it to an empty unmuted
track and play it back from there.
• Do not transmit several SysEx dumps to several instruments at the same time.
• Make a note of the current device ID setting of the instrument. If you change
this, the instrument may refuse to load the dump later.
Recording System Exclusive parameter
changes
Often you can use System Exclusive to remotely change individual
settings in a device, open up a filter, select a waveform, change the
decay of the reverb etc. Many devices are also capable of transmitting
changes made on the front panel as System Exclusive messages.
These can be recorded in Cubase SE, and thus incorporated into a
regular MIDI recording.
Here's how it works: let's say you open up a filter while playing some
notes. In that case, you will record both the notes and the System Ex-
clusive messages generated by your opening of the filter. When you
play it back, the sound changes exactly like it did when you recorded it.
1. Open the Preferences dialog from the File menu (on the Mac, this is
located on the Cubase SE menu), select the MIDI–MIDI Filter page
and make sure that System Exclusive is recorded.
2. Make sure the instrument is actually set to transmit front panel control
movements as System Exclusive data.
3. Record normally.
When you’re done, you can check that the events were recorded properly in the List
Editor.