Hi,
I watch the following video to cycle through different sounds in an VST instrument for live performance.
Q1) I was wondering how the controller is mapped? I have nano controller ( Korg) set as generic controller, and others such as Yamaha KX.
Q2) Is the same thing possible if my tracks have output to my midi sound module?
Any clarification would be appreciated.
CS
Q2 is the easier to answer… provided your MIDI sound module is multitimbral (i.e. has (up to) 16 separate slots in which you can load different sounds), then it will behave the same as if you were triggering HALion Sonic SE.
As for Q1, you do realise that, in that YouTube, it is merely showing how Cubase can be set to trigger the different sounds when it receives the different MIDI channels… it isn’t the Input Transformer that is doing the actual channel switching, Joshua is doing that from his external keyboard.
For Q1) I am wonderig how it is switching. I have on my PSR OTS setting that I can switch between voices.
I thought I could set my external foot pedal/switch to cycle through or switch to different tracks. I have also non-keyboard MIDI Nano Kontrol ( Korg ) that has bunch of buttons. I have set it up as generic remote controller.
For Q2) I am happy that I will work 
Thanks for the responses.
That is in fact possible, via the Generic Remote Device and a macro… but (no offence intended 
), I believe it would complicate things more than it would help, at the moment . Can you not simply switch MIDI channels from your external keyboard?
I have also non-keyboard MIDI Nano Kontrol ( Korg ) that has bunch of buttons. I have set it up as generic remote controller.
Again, once you had set up the Generic Remote and a macro as above, you could use the Nano to trigger the Generic Remote (but trust me… you really don’t want to go there until you have fully mastered Cubase… even if one were to show in detail how to set all that up, you’d almost certainly at some point find yourself in difficulty elsewhere, precisely because of that setup.
(Please, I hope that didn’t sound too “condescending”, that wasn’t my intention… I’m merely trying to avoid you tearing your hair out later )
I’d use a Generic Remote map and bind some commands to arm/disarm tracks.
I.E.
My 16 MPC pads work in ‘track order’, and the pads are lit when armed, and dark when disarmed. Since these are using ‘note-on/off’ events to remote control the DAW, I set up a bank of MPC pads in ‘toggle mode’ so they only transmit on the ‘B port’ of the MIDI controller (MPK2 in my case). If your controller doesn’t have more than one MIDI port, then you’d simply set aside a MIDI channel that you’d never use for anything else but remote controlling the DAW and set your pads to use that channel.
You can record to many tracks at once, no big deal. If you later want to ‘freeze’ and then ‘merge’ tracks into one, again it’s no big deal.
Note, if you want to have a single MIDI event do several things in one go, just bind more than one command to the same MIDI event in your Generic Remote Map. I.E. Punching a single MPC pad could arm tracks 3-8 and unarm tracks 1, 9, and 10. Etc. It’s also possible to stack several Generic Remote Maps and use them all together at the same time (be careful though, and design things to avoid conflicts).
If you want to also ‘record’ any automation you do with a Generic Remote map, you can do it through a regular MIDI track using a virtual loop-back MIDI port (See here for PC, or here for Macs on getting a Virtual Port). For this to work you’d create a virtual MIDi port, make a MIDi track in Cubase set to only listen to the relevant MIDI controller, and forward the output of the track to that virtual MIDI port. You’d set the input of the Generic Map you wish to automate via sequence as your virtual MIDI port. Note, you’d need to keep the track armed for recording or monitoring pretty much at all times with such a setup or your remote events will never make it into the map. This can really come in handy any time you want to automate things in the DAW that don’t have dedicated automation lanes (such as arming/unarming tracks, launching marcos or logic editors, stopping the DAW, etc.) Be aware that if you use these sorts of tracks to ‘automate’ CuBase via MIDI…Generic Remote maps do NOT save with your project…they stick with your DAW setup. So, make notes in notepad, and keep an exported copy of the maps in your project folder in case you ever need to ‘reload and assign’ the remote maps in the far distant future.
I know that. All I wanted to do was redoing what is in the video. I think the prerequisite for input transformer is logical editor!
Thanks
Thank you. I am going to try this for my podcast recording. I am sure it simplify automations that I am doing.