Remote Control Devices
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Table of Contents
5 Remote controlling Cubase Essential 6 6 7 8 10 About this manual Setting Up Operations The Generic Remote device The supported remote control devices 16 Index 4 Table of Contents
1 Remote controlling Cubase Essential
About this manual Selecting a remote device 1. Pull down the Devices menu and select Device Setup. It is possible to control Cubase Essential via MIDI. A large number of MIDI control devices is supported. This manual describes how to set up Cubase Essential for remote control, and lists the supported devices. A dialog window opens with a list of device categories and devices shown in the left part of the window. 2.
5. Click OK to close the dialog. ! You can now use the MIDI control device to move faders and knobs, activate Mute and Solo, etc. The exact parameter configuration depends on which external MIDI control device you are using. ! Assigning remote key commands Sometimes communication between Cubase Essential and a remote device is interrupted or the handshaking protocol fails to create a connection.
The Generic Remote device 5. Use the pop-up menu to the right to select a bank. Banks are combinations of a certain number of channels, and are used because most MIDI devices can control only a limited number of channels at a time (often 8 or 16). For example, if your MIDI control device has 16 volume faders, and you are using 32 mixer channels in Cubase Essential, you would need two banks of 16 channels each.
• If you are uncertain of which MIDI message a certain controller sends, you can use the Learn function: 9. When you are finished, close the Device Setup window. Now, you can control the specified Cubase Essential parameters from the MIDI remote device. To select another bank, use the pop-up menu in the Remote Status window (or use a control on the MIDI remote device, if you have assigned one for this).
The supported remote control devices Steinberg Houston Houston is a MIDI/USB remote control device designed especially for use with VST audio applications such as Cubase Essential. With clearly laid out controls (including touch sensitive motorized faders, rotary knobs, transport controls and a jog/shuttle wheel) Houston allows you to control Cubase Essential, without having to use the computer keyboard or mouse.
• For details about parameters and hands-on mixing techniques, please see the separate pdf documentation describing the use of Mackie Control with Cubase Essential. • The SELECT ASSIGN four character display in the Select Assign section displays Send or Pan assignment for V-Pots and V-Sel buttons. Mackie HUI • The four character displays above the Select buttons display the assigned track names. Mackie HUI can control any number of channels in groups of 8.
• The Edit Mode, Edit Tool, Option/All, Ctrl/Clutch and Alt/Fine buttons in the Keyboard Shortcuts section are currently not supported. • Use the Compare button in the DSP Edit/Assign section for page up. Hold down the Shift button in the Keyboard Shortcuts section and press the Compare button to jump to the last page. • The Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete buttons in the Edit section control the equivalent Cubase Essential functions. • Use the Bypass button in the DSP Edit/Assign section for page down.
• Use the “+” and “-” buttons to shift the project cursor position forward or backward by the amount of time set with the new value. Cubase Essential mixer The following US-428 controls will remote control the following mixer parameter for each channel strip: • The three LEDs left of the time display indicate whether Bars+Beats (BEATS), a frame based timecode (TIME CODE), Feet+Frames (FEET) or Samples (all LEDs off) is selected.
Yamaha 01V With Layout 1 the 01V controls the following channels: The Yamaha 01V can remote control Cubase Essential. Before you can initiate remote control operation, the 01V must be set up in the following way: • Channel 1–12, 13/14 and 15/16 will control channels 1–14. • 01V Return 1 and 2 will control channels 15 and 16. • MIDI Parameter Change and Receive must be enabled. With Layout 2 the 01V controls the following channels: • MIDI Control Change and Receive must be disabled.
Yamaha DM1000v2 [Instruments]: Instrument for selected channel (Instrument tracks and MIDI track to VSTi from the Rack) The Yamaha DM1000v2 is a digital mixing console that provides full automation of virtually all console parameters. It is designed to integrate effectively with digital audio workstations such as Cubase Essential. • Page 1 – Select instrument • Page 2-n – Instrument parameter • [Shift]+[Instruments]: VST Instrument Rack access (as v3.
Index
A Apple Remote 10 G Generic Remote Device 8 H Houston 10 M Mackie Control 10 Mackie HUI 11 R Remote control Key commands 7 Setting up 6 Writing automation 7 T Tascam US-428 13 Y Yamaha 01V 14 Yamaha 01v96v2 15 Yamaha 01x 15 Yamaha 02r96v2 15 Yamaha DM1000v2 15 Yamaha DM2000/DM2000v2 14 17 Index
