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  • Cubase Program Changes not making it to VEPro

    M
    M

    I'm sure this has a ridiculously easy answer. Here's the issue:

    I'm setting up a template with VEPro and VIPro on a slave computer. I have a hardware device setup to send program changes to move between the different matrices in VIPro.

    I use both Digital Performer and Cubase. When I load up DP, connect to the VEPro instance and arm a MIDI track, everything works fine. I press a button on my hardware controller and VEPro switches to the correct matrix. However when I load up Cubase, connect to VEPro and and arm a MIDI track, nothing happens to the matrices when I press the buttons on my MIDI controller.

    The correct program changes are getting into Cubase. I verified this by recording a few seconds of me pushing different buttons and the correct values show up in the Program Change lane. But even when I play back the recorded Program Changes, nothing happens in the VEPro instance. Notes, CC's all work fine, just not Program Changes.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks!!!

    (using DP7.2 and Cubase 5.5)
  • D
    D

     Make sure you're not using the VST3 version of VE Pro in Cubase (denoted by ///)

    DG
  • M
    M

    Thank you for the help DG

    Ah, I am using the VST3 version so I can access multiple MIDI ports on the same instance. I tried switching to the VST2 version and sure enough...program changes work.

    This is troubling. VST3 doesn't support program change messages? That seems odd that a new plugin standard would actually REMOVE functionality.

    So am I to infer that I have to choose to either use program changes OR multiple MIDI ports? This would be very sad indeed if it were the case.
  • D
    D

    It is the case, I'm afraid. On the bright side it means that you can have the identical set-up for DP, because AU doesn't allow multiple MIDI ports either.

    There is a new thing called Program Lists in VST3, but no developer seems to be using it, so it's pretty much useless at the moment.

    DG
  • G
    G
    If you use Kontakt, I have scripts that use a specified controller as a program change proxy. This has been an effective workaround for me.
  • P
    P

    Hello, could you send me please this script for Kontakt?? I have the same problem ussing VE PRO and cubase on Mac.

    borghipablo (at) hotmail