Creative thinking needed (?), retrieve track names from Cubase to MIDI or OSC

[skijumptoes]

Using the MCU implementation you can grab the full track name from the EQ, Send, Plugin or CStrip views for the selected track.

It starts midway across the screen on the second line if I can recall correctly, so looks centre aligned- but it’s not, it’s a fixed starting position, about 15-20 characters from left. So easy to grab.

Depends what scripts you can run on that SysEx data, of course. But if you can parse into a string there’s a good 25-30 characters there which is enough for most track names.

I put the note numbers on this diagram if you’re not sure which note numbers swap between EQ/Send/Plugin mode:-

Mackie/MCU Diagram (jpeg) with Equivalent labels, Note Numbers and Note Names (For Reference)

I don’t know if this is of any use to anyone, now or in the future. But i’ve been working on trying to get MCU emulation running on Komplete Kontrol S mk2 keyboards. To help me with the mapping i sketched over the standard template for Cubase, and included the standard MCU labels, MIDI Note numbers and MIDI note names - so i can cross reference within the one image. It only covers the function controls on the right, because faders, v-pots etc. are more standard and follow MCU protocol as lab…

I sent Note 44, Channel 1 to quickly swap to EQ mode to read it. Never done anything with it though, spent too much time doing crap like this when I should just be making music.