Happy New Year!
I’ve been interested in dipping my toe into music composition for a few years, and have been slowly assembling a “workstation” of sorts with my Samsung S24+ phone connected to a portable touchscreen monitor and an Arturia KeyLab Essential 49 mk3, after purchasing Cubasis earlier this year. Having a controller that claims to have a great set of granular DAW controls integrated already, it seemed like I’d have no problem utilizing most of them with Cubasis. Unfortunately, enabling MCU/HUI in Cubasis seems to have absolutely no effect. I have been able to use MIDI Learn to be able to configure a limited number of controls, but some Cubasis functions (such as Undo and Redo) are not mappable. While I’m aware that there are shortcuts available for many of these functions that can be used from an alphanumeric keyboard, this is less than ideal when I’ve got buttons available on the controller already in front of me. I’ve been reading forum posts to try to catch up on which issues I’m having might be specific to the Android implementation of Cubasis, as opposed to those for the Apple ecosystem, and only just recently started going through the actual Cubasis documentation, where I found the following:
"Note: Not all features of the Mackie and HUI protocols are supported by Cubasis yet. Let us know on the forum if you’re missing a specific control, as we are looking to improve Mackie control support in future updates.
Cubasis 3.7
Note: On Android, port selection is not available yet, which means that it’s not possible to use multiple Mackie or HUI controllers at the same time. Also, MIDI learn and Mackie Control cannot be used at the same time on Android yet."
After using an app called MIDI Scope to verify that my phone is receiving any and all communications from using the knobs/buttons/sliders on my controller with DAW mode selected, I am here to do as instructed by posting here what specific controls if like to see implemented. I’m also including the basic transport controls in this request since the ability to use MIDI Learn with MCU/HUI is not functional for Android at this point. Of course, I’d love to see the rest of my available sliders and knobs along with the main encoder, associated buttons, and display supported as part of the MCU/HUI features, but I don’t feel those are as important to me for my current productivity needs.
Button list follows, as copied and pasted from the Arturia documentation, but I can see how the Save and Stop functions don’t have much of any analogous function, and how the current UI might not allow the updating of the tempo using the Tap button:
• Save: Saves your track.
• Quant: Turns Quantize on and off.
• Undo: Reverses your last action, such as deleting a track, or capturing a MIDIperformance.
• Redo: Reverses your last Undo action.
• Loop: Toggles the Loop function in your DAW on and off.
• Rewind/Fast-forward: Quickly jogs the playback cursor back and forth, letting you conveniently find specific points in your track while editing.
• Metronome: Toggles your DAW’s metronome on and off.
• Stop: Stops playback. In some recording software, this will also return theplayback cursor to the start of the track.
• Play/Pause: Starts and pauses your track at the current position of the playbackcursor in your DAW.
• Record: Arms the record function in your DAW. Hitting the Record button whilethe track is stopped will begin playback while recording. If the track is alreadyplaying, hitting Record will begin recording from the current playback cursorposition.
• Tap: Tap Tempo to enter a BPM value.
I want to add my thanks and appreciation for the tools afforded by the Android software implementation, where available. If I can be of any assistance in testing this requested functionality, please let me know.
