User manual STEINBERG CUBASE 5

[. . . ] Operation Manual Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Marion Bröer, Sabine Pfeifer Thanks to: Georg Bruns The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The software described by this document is subject to a License Agreement and may not be copied to other media except as specifically allowed in the License Agreement. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced or otherwise transmitted or recorded, for any purpose, without prior written permission by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. All product and company names are TM or ® trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] Also, selecting patches by numbers this way seems unnecessarily cumbersome, when most instruments use names for their patches nowdays. To help with this, you can use the MIDI Device Manager to specify which MIDI instruments you have connected by selecting from a vast list of existing devices or by specifying the details yourself. Once you have specified which MIDI devices you are using, you can select to which particular device each MIDI track should be routed. It is then possible to select patches by name in the Track list or Inspector. 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. For a description on how to create a MIDI device from scratch, please refer to the separate pdf document "MIDI Devices". Opening the MIDI Device Manager Select MIDI Device Manager from the Devices menu to bring up the following window: Cubase: List of connected MIDI devices. The first time you open the MIDI Device Manager, this list will be empty. This button opens the selected device. 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 Selector 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, you need to use Bank Select messages, a system in which the programs in a MIDI instrument are divided into Use these buttons to import/ export XML Device setups. Here you specify to which MIDI output the selected device is connected. 315 Using MIDI devices Cubase Studio: List of connected MIDI devices. The first time you open the MIDI Device Manager, this list will be empty. Use these buttons to install/remove devices. 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. In the MIDI Device Manager, click the Install Device button. The Add MIDI Device dialog appears. Here you specify to which MIDI output the selected device is connected. 2. Select "Define New. . . " and click OK. This area shows exactly which MIDI messages should be sent out to select the patch highlighted in the list to the left. The "Create New MIDI Device" dialog appears. For a description of the options in this dialog, see the separate PDF document "MIDI Devices". 3. In the Identical Channels list, activate the MIDI channels you would like the device to use. This means that the device will receive Program Change over any MIDI channel. For a description of Identical and Individual Channels, see the separate PDF document "MIDI Devices". This pop-up menu lets you edit the selected device (provided that "Enable Edit" is ticked). Here, the patch structure for the selected device is shown. 4. Enter a name for the device at the top of the dialog, and click OK. The device appears in the Installed Devices list, and the device node structure for the device is automatically shown in a new window. 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. [. . . ] As above, you should try hiding rests on the Score Settings­Staff page (Polyphonic tab), center rests and possibly manually moving or hiding rests. In polyphonic voices, notes that are on the same musical position are not displayed exactly vertically above each other. Cubase has built-in automatic algorithms for making the score as legible as possible. Sometimes this will include adjustments of the "graphic" position of notes, especially with small intervals like seconds. [. . . ]