I also would like this feature and had stated this on the old forum.
I cannot ever recall having any official statement from Steinberg stating it could or could not be done.
Please can we therefore have some sort of official response as whether this is being looked into or even if it is possible?
As I mentioned in another post, with Cubase not playing and a track/channel selected with no eq or other inserts and not in R/W mode, it is possible for all 28 buttons to remain unlit, the only illumination on the entire panel then being the blue power/ready LED.
‘As it stands at the moment, with Cubase not playing and a track/channel selected with no eq or other inserts and not in R/W mode, it is possible for all 28 buttons to remain unlit, the only illumination on the entire panel then being the blue power/ready LED.’
In my view this is plain silly. I find it hard to imagine that this was how the designer(s) first envisaged the thing.
And another bump here… I’m certain that this would be a simple thing to implement (29+ years as an electronic tech, field engineering with the worlds largest computer company…I’m not ignorant in this regard).
Steinberg…c’mon, please make something happen on this.
I find it VERY disrespectful that no one at SB has the balls to just let us know if they can do this or not. Of course, after seeing the new CMC series controllers it truly seems like they do not listen to anyone on any forum regarding anything related to controllers.
it’s even on thread that you replied on. Don’t you find it a bit disrespectful for people to keep asking the same question without having the courtesy to read SB’s replies.
I find it disrespectful that you find it disrespectful that I have been disrespectful to Steinberg for being disrespectful! Seriously though…oops, I forgot about that thread from a while back. I’ve been upset due to getting my hopes up about Steinberg putting out a higher-end controller. Steinberg, please accept apologies for my mistake…but you see what those CMC controllers have done to me.
So much of the value of the CC121 depends on the software integration.
Surely there are all kinds of options that could be added in software?
I bought the CC121 believing that Steinberg would continue to develop and improve the software and give users options in software to adapt the CC121 to their own work methods.
I am disappointed that this has not happened . . . at all.
Looking at the specs the CC121 is a rather dumb device. It sends MIDI notes on a button press, CCs on encoder rotation and PB values on the fader. The other way works the same, so MIDI notes turn the light on and off and PB moves the fader. Really simple actually. All the rest of the logic is done in software on the host side.
This way the plugin that allows the usage of the CC121 with reaper was able to add several clever things that I’d really like to see on the Cubase CC121 integration as well. As an example it can work with most EQs out there, it can swap the pan encoder and the fader to write pan automation or it can disable the motor fader with a button click so you don’t have to pull the wall wart to shut it up in a silent environment etc.