Midi In channels in Cubase

[Trojan Badger]

OK, supplementary to the question I asked yesterday.

Say I wanted to set up a master keyboard to talk to Cubase, and wanted to give my keyboard player really trivial patch change capability where she switches midi channel and it switches the VST instrument she's playing

EG her template has track 1=Sampletank pads, track 2=B4, track 3=Sampletank strings, track4=Lounge Lizard

What I'd like is to set the channels up to only receive on a particular channel, but looking at the track inspector it seems to only let you choose output Midi channel, not input. Am I missing something? Am I stuck? Do I need to buy a Receptor? (too skint!!) Different host?

[UltraJv]

Sounds like you would need a second midi input to do that.

[SJ_Digriz]

Each MIDI track has an input transformer button. You can filter the channel (and most anything else) that the track willr respond to.

[SJ_Digriz]

oh, and Channel filtering presets are already there. Just select them from the drop down list.

[Trojan Badger]

Looks like the bunny. Mind you, it's a bit "sledgehammer-nut" isn't it!

[SJ_Digriz]

Well, it depends....I've bitched about this on the Cubase forum since VST turned into SX. No one else seems to be bothered. I think so many people use VST instruments that the concept of having multiple external multi-timbral synths has been lost on them.

I had a killer workflow in VST for recording say 20 bars in loop in merge mode then I hit b6+c7 on my master and the next track would arm and I could press on with a new patch on another track without ever stopping. I can almost do the same thing, but the setup to achieve it is 50 times harder. I have a template now of course, but templates get stupid when you have to have 100s of preconfigured articulation tracks in folders.