3.0

CUBASE SE
1 – 6 MIDI devices
Background
The MIDI Device Manager allows you to specify and set up your MIDI
devices, making global control and patch selection easy.
MIDI devices – general settings and patch
handling
On the following pages, we will describe how to install and set up
preset MIDI devices, and how to select patches by name from within
Cubase SE. This section also describes how to create a MIDI device
from scratch.
About program change and bank select
To instruct a MIDI instrument to select a certain patch (sound), you
send a MIDI Program Change message to the instrument. Program
Change messages can be recorded or entered in a MIDI part like other
events, but you can also enter a value in the Program (prg) field in the
Inspector for a MIDI track. This way, you can quickly set each MIDI
track to play a different sound.
With Program Change messages, you are able to select between 128
different patches in your MIDI device. However, many MIDI instruments
contain a larger number of patch locations. To make these available
from within Cubase SE, you need to use Bank Select messages, a sys-
tem in which the programs in a MIDI instrument are divided into banks,
each bank containing 128 programs. If your instruments support MIDI
Bank Select, you can use the Bank (bnk) field in the Inspector to select
a bank, and then the Program field to select a program in this bank.