Rescan usb keyboards?

Cubase
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Hi, is there a way to rescan usb keyboards after cubase has started? Useful if you forget to switch keyboard on before starting cubase. Thanks

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Yeah. This has been resolved in more recent versions of Cubase, so I don’t recall where it resides - but it’s somewhere in the Studio MIDI setup. Your looking for a button (I think?) that says “MIDI Reset” (or similar).

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Thanks for the suggestion, i found the midi reset but it does not rescan for usb keyboards connected after cubase is already running. Maybe that facility does not exist.

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This might have possibly been introduced in C11 or 12, where Cubase would detect new MIDI devices automatically if they were powered on after program start.

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@daveo555, what version and edition of Cubase are you using, which OS, and what hardware?

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Hi, i’m on cubase 14 on windows 11.

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Ok, that should work imho. You added the cubase-10 tag to your topic, which might not have worked back then, but I have C14 and when I switch off my Keyboards after I start Cubase, it usually detects them. There are cases though when it doesn’t work perfectly in my experience. I usually stop playback which seems to work better (but I haven’t done real tests tbh…).

Edit: Just tested it and even when playing, the keyboards get detected and activated after a few seconds.

Does your keyboard show up in Windows Settings (“Bluetooth and Devices→Devices”) when you turn it on?

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Same on macOS since C12 through multiple OS iterations, with multiple MIDI devices and keyboards over time. I’ve never had to use any manner of “MIDI reset” or “rescan” function. Even when starting a project with explicit MIDI device routing dependencies, at the “Device missing” dialog, simply powering on the device immediately proceeds through loading - no other user interaction required.

USB hubs could introduce erratic behavior as well, so that may be possibility.

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Ignore my answer it was based on the Cubase 10 tag. If you are on 14 it should just detect it a few seconds after the device is connected/turned-on. I constantly forget to power up my keyboard, so I’m doing this a lot after I launch Cubase & it always works. The only exception is if I power on the keyboard while Cubase is still launching it doesn’t see it then.

EDIT:

I just checked and my keyboard is connected via a hub (powered) and not directly to my PC.

Oh!!! - just had a thought. The new Windows MIDI setup is rolling out right now and can cause some connection problems. There are a couple of threads here about the rollout