I want to use something like MainStage live, but want it on my iPad Pro.
I have set up Cubasis projects that respond to multiple controllers on multiple channels, but there are a few critical features missing.
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Project selection via MIDI. Cubasis should be able to listen to a control MIDI channel and select a project based on a MIDI program change message, such as from Set List Maker, which I currently use to change between Studio Sets on my Roland FA-06.
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Limited MIDI key ranges per Cubasis track. By setting limited key ranges to which a Cubasis track will respond, splits and layers could be established on a single-output-channel USB MIDI controller by setting two Cubasis tracks to different instruments with different key ranges.
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MIDI Note value shift per Cubasis channel. Cubasis needs the ability to shift note messages on a Cubasis channel up or down an octave or two so that a controller that resets to middle octave doesn’t need to be shifted on each boot, or shifts don’t need to be changed at the controller between songs.
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Program Change send per channel on Project load for Interapp/AU instruments. Cubasis needs to be able to have an Interapp Audio or AU instrument load the right patch on Cubasis Project load.
Call it C-Stage or Cubasis Live. Cubasis will need a Settings UI control for setting the project-selection MIDI interface and control channel, a UI for mapping Cubasis projects to Program numbers, UI additions in Routing for setting the key-ranges, octave, and program change, and a Performance UI for showing the splits and key-presses live, much like MainStage does. However, at that point, Cubasis becomes a decent synth workstation replacement.
Are any of these features there and I am missing them? Does any other app provide this functionality?
I am posting the same request to Auria. The two apps are both painfully close to being able to do this, yet lack the “MainStage” UI to make it happen.