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Remote controlling Cubase Essential
The Generic Remote device
If you have a generic MIDI controller, you can use this for
remote control of Cubase Essential by setting up the Ge-
neric Remote device:
1. Open the Device Setup dialog on the Devices menu.
If the Generic Remote device isn’t on the Devices list, you need to add it.
2. Click the “+” sign in the top left corner and select the
“Generic Remote” device from the pop-up menu.
• When the Generic Remote device is added in the Device
Setup dialog, you can open the corresponding window by
selecting “Generic Remote” from the Devices menu.
The Generic Remote window
3. Select the Generic Remote device in the Devices list
to the left.
The settings for the Generic Remote device are displayed, allowing you
to specify which control on your device should control which parameter
in Cubase Essential.
4. Use the MIDI Input and Output pop-up menus to se-
lect the MIDI port(s) to which your remote device is con-
nected.
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 chan-
nels 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 Es-
sential, you would need two banks of 16 channels each. When the first
bank is selected you control channel 1 to 16; when the second Bank is
selected you control channel 17 to 32. Since you can control Transport
functions as well, you may need several banks.
6. Set up the table at the top according to the controls
on your MIDI control device.
The columns have the following functionality:
• If you find that the table at the top holds too many or too
few controls, you can add or remove controls with the Add
and Delete buttons to the right of the table.
Column Description
Control Name Double clicking this field allows you to enter a descriptive
name for the control (typically a name written on the con-
sole). This name is automatically reflected in the Control
Name column in the lower table.
MIDI Status Clicking in this column pulls down a pop-up menu, allow-
ing you to specify the type of MIDI message sent by the
control. The options are Controller, Program Change,
Note On, Note Off, Aftertouch and Polyphonic Pressure.
Also available are Continuous Control NRPN and RPN, a
way to extend the available control messages. ??The
“Ctrl JLCooper” option is a special version of a Continu-
ous Controller where the 3rd byte of a MIDI message is
used as address instead of the 2nd byte (a method sup-
ported by various JL-Cooper remote devices).
MIDI Channel Clicking in this column opens a pop-up menu, allowing
you to select the MIDI channel on which the controller is
transmitted.
Address The Continuous Controller number, the pitch of a note or
the address of a NRPN/RPN Continuous Controller.
Max. Value The maximum value the control will transmit. This value is
used by the program to “scale” the value range of the
MIDI controller to the value range of the program para-
meter.
Flags Clicking in this column pulls down a pop-up menu, allow-
ing you to activate or deactivate three flags:
Receive – activate this if the MIDI message should be
processed on reception.
Transmit – activate this if a MIDI message should be
transmitted when the corresponding value in the program
changes.
Relative – activate this if the control is an “endless” dial,
which reports the number of turns instead of an absolute
value.