Scripting in Cubase for task automation?

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Based on my search on both the manual and the internet, I think I know the answer, but just in case…

I’m hoping there’s a way to script tasks you do inside Cubase, whether it’s by scripting or by recording kind of like an MS Office macro or similar.

My main use is to create templates from my VSTis. For example, I own a lot of Orchestral Tools instruments, including the Berlin series, and JXL Brass and Perc, and I would like to create a template project that has all of them, one instrument per track. OT doesn’t provide any templates, so I need to do it myself.

The part about creating a project with 200 tracks or more, each of them with the SINE player, that part is easy and doesn’t need a script. But the part where you open the instrument in each of those tracks and then load the specific instrument inside the SINE player, that is a repetitive task that takes forever.

And the same can be said if I want to do the same but with the Eastwest orchestra, or the Cinesamples, CSS and the rest of the orchestra, and all the others I have.

As far as I can tell, the project logical editor can create VSTi tracks, but prompting me just the same as if I was doing it manually, and I don’t see any options for those commands.

I don’t think what I want is possible in any way in Cubase Pro 14, is it?

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No, it is not possible. I assume that is why people with a huge template are kind of proud about their template.

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And that’s why tools like AutoHotKey, CoyoteMIDI, StreamDeck and others have some popularity among some of us. :nerd_face:

But that’s a rabbit hole requiring quite a bit of enthusiasm.

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I think the deepest you’ll get natively are the key command macros:

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Take a day off, buy a 6-pack, or a lot of coffee, roll up your sleeves and get to work.
I did this with a bunch of Expression Maps, and I take very good care of them.

A scripting addition would be a major asset.

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Yeah… it’s not the “hard work” part, it’s the repetitive task part that I’m trying to speed up. Spending hours clicking over and over is not even hard work, it’s a waste of time, if there are any tools that can help with that.

The hard work comes when you already have it set up and you have to start composing, or making a MIDI mockup. That’s the part that time should be spent on, and having the ability to do that in a few minutes would give you all those hours back to spend in the actual hard work.

Of course this could be saved if companies would do their job and gave customers projects for every DAW with every instrument already loaded, which some do, but good luck getting Orchestral Tools to do that, when they can’t even write a proper manual for their instruments. I mean, look at the size of the manuals from Eastwest for example, and then the pitiful page OT has for their instruments. I say Eastwest but there’s tons of other companies that have proper PDF manuals that are dozens of pages long with every detail, and OT instead has “notes”.