Hi guys. I just figured out a way to send System Common messages (song change, etc) using the list editor. Hope this can help someone, I know a few people online were searching hard for this ability.
I use Cubase 5, but this probably works on newer versions too.
Basically, what you do, is you make a .syx file manually in HxD or some other such hex editor with your system common message, then import that into the List Editor, and allow it to “correct” the file. Then you will have the values above 7F in there.
In my case, I’m using a Triton Rack, and I needed to change to Multi mode when a song started in Cubase, then immediately switch to the proper multi mode preset. I have all my presets in sequence within multi mode, so my orchestral multi preset is multi 003, my battle music preset is 005, etc etc.
For the Triton Rack, multi mode responds to song change message, which is “F3 xx F7”, xx representing the multi preset value. If you try to enter F3 into the list editor sysex event manually it won’t allow you to. But with this trick, you’ll see that you can! I’m able to completely automate system common controls on my Triton Rack using Cubase now. It’s pretty simple, too!
(Note: you don’t have to include the closing F7 in your manually created .syx file, as Cubase list editor adds that by default.)
Hope this helps someone out there
