Pattern Editor & External Drum Machine

So I have this set up nicely - triggering my Tanzbar 2.

When I was first experimenting with the Pattern Editor and the new Drum Machine, I noticed you could add custom parameters to the steps. CC changes and the like. Pretty cool.

So I thought it’d be great to do this with the Tanzbar so I could have step control over each drum’s parameters. Except when I try and add a parameter here nothing pops up. No options or anything?

Anybody got any ideas on why this might be? Is there something else I have to set up? Or is this not possible?

I was wondering the same thing, but I think the did that on purpose due to difficulties with MIDI spec (it’s too outdated)..
I hope they change their mind because this feature would be so valuable to have.
(same issue is discussed in this thread Assigning a Cubase 14 Modulator to Midi CC#? - #12 by mlib)

Cheers for that.

Oh well, I just noticed it wouldn’t have worked anyway, as I’d want each drum pad to have its own set of controls.

FWIW, and for anyone stumbling across this via search… If you have Reaktor it’s mega easy to make a device that sends out CCs and passes MIDI through. Or just knock up your own VST.

This is what I’ve always done in the past, I just hate having to juggle an extra MIDI track (to receive the MIDI from the VST/Reaktor).

I was also wondering if it is SB intention to eventually allow the PE (the additional parameters) when using VST3 plugins that can support it? That would be sweet.