MIDI sustain pedal

Cubase
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Hello,

I’m using Cubase 7.5 and also using a sustain pedal for the first time. When I am recording notes with the sustain pedal they are sustaining but on playback they forget this. How can I set Cubase to remember the sustained notes. I am completely new to CC automation etc and have struggled to find the right answer in the help topics. I am really only interested in using the pedal to ‘sustain’ notes not for modulation or anything.
Forgive me if this topic is covered elsewhere.

Regards,

Thom.

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Check your preferences, if sustain is set to be filtered for recording.
But more important: Does the MIDI data trigger the same sound device on Record and Playback?

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Hi thinkingcap,

Yes the sound on playback is the same instrument/vst but the sustain will only work if I manually press the pedal again during playback - it doesn’t remember the fact that I’ve already pressed it during record.
In preferences, what should I be looking for?

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For MIDI filters as said already.
Also check in Device Setup, if the controller is assigned to any quick controls.

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Aloha t,

Another approach would be to open the ‘recorded’ track
in the ‘List Editor’ and see if any MIDI sus events are being recorded at all.

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Yup - highlight the MIDI track and go up to the Menus at the top. I think it’s under the ‘Edit’ menu.

Click to open the ‘List Editor’.

Look for CC 64 [Sustain] with values of 0 & 127. 0 being closed & 127 being open [Sustained], I do believe.

Also, you can go to File>Preferences [near the bottom].

Scroll down to MIDI>MIDI - MIDI Filter, which is what ‘thinkingcap’ was saying.

This a filtering section to ‘exclude’ things you don’t want recorded - not ‘include’ them.
So any box or option ‘ticked’ will be filtered out of the recordings.

So, for instance if you only want channels 5 & 7 recorded, you would click on the other 14 MIDI channels to exclude them - then they’ll be white instead of grey.

[I used this section’s options to my advantage yesterday for some MIDI track importing.]

So look above this area and see if ‘Controller’ has a check mark beside it.

Un-check it if it does & hit Apply > Ok.

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thank you all for the advice - I’m back home tonight so will see if this fixes my problems.
:slight_smile:

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Hi,
thanks jamusic, curteye and thinkingcap.
I’ve been using Midi to record with for a few years but never with a sustain pedal so I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction.
I took a look in preferences>Midi Filter and “added” CC64 into the controller lane. This seems to have done the trick.
Thank you so much.
T

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Awesome!