How to Latch Notes in Cubase

Hi,

Driving reMIDI 4 from Cubase, all works very well with the proviso that you have to continue to hold down the key on your keyboard or the pad on your control surface in order for reMIDI to continue to play.

Highly desirable would be one-touch operation (touch and forget) whereby the last note received is held down (for you, so to speak) by Cubase until you touch-to-send the next note.

IOW, note latching.

Is there a way in Cubase 14 Pro to achieve note latching?

Hi,

Chord Pad can do this, but it would be just a workaround.

Would Sustain Pedal help? Then you can extend the MIDI Notes until the release of the pedal.

Have you tried the legato function?

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Hi.

Thanks for the suggestions so far, but they are not quite on-target for my goal here.

I won’t have access to a sustain pedal, nor would that be touch-and-forget even if I did.

The legato function shown is in the editor, whereas I’m looking for live processing of track input data.

In Bitwig, for example, you would just put a Latch device at or near the front of the device chain:

Hi,

You can try to use the Input Transformer and Filter Out MIDI Notes with Velocity 0 (i.e. Note Off):

Filter Target
( Type Is | Equal | Note | And
Velocity | Equal | 0)

Action Target

Function
Filter

I think most devices nowadays send dedicated Note Off messages and not a Note On with Velocity = 0.
Unfortunately the Input Transformer doesn’t allow you to filter only Note Off.

MIDI Off (or equivalent) messages are needed in the stream, its just that you don’t want them generated when you let go of a key/pad, rather you want the MIDI Off to be postponed until the next key/pad is touched.

Unless Chord Pads, as @Martin.Jirsak mentioned, can be used as a workaround, I don’t think there any features in Cubase that can accommodate what you’re looking for.
If you’re on Windows, there are 3rd party tools that would be able to enable such behavior.

Hi,

I’m thinking about another workaround. You could filter out Note Off messages. Then once you receive the next MIDI Note, you could send MIDI CC 123 (All Notes Off). The question is, if this would switch only the previous Note Off, or even the new one.

I haven’t tested this.

Can you do that with the Input Transformer?

Hi,

Sorry, I was talking about the Note On with Velocity 0 again.