Transport and fader control in cubasis

Hmmm. Cubasis is going to be a problem. It has no support for controlling it via MIDI at all:

www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=183&t=61074

I just verified this myself. It ignores MIDI start/stop messages sent to it.

Many other DAW type apps respond to MIDI control. Auria will for instance.

In any case mapping the transport controls of the impact keyboard to MIDI start/stop/continue will allow you to remote control apps that do support this.

Regards, Nic.

Hi jakersjaw,

First, the MIDI transport commands available are 'Start' (start from beginning), 'Continue' (play from current location) and 'Stop' (stop). Let's get these working with your LX 61 first.

Follow the instructions here but use these rules instead. I have mapped the 'Back' button to 'start play at beginning', 'Start' to 'Continue' and 'Stop' to 'stop'

# Auria Transport/LX 61 
BX 67 7F = F2 00 00 +C
BX 67 7F = FA +C
BX 6A 7F = FB +C
BX 69 7F = FC +C

Auria uses the HUI protocol so we are limited to the things that can be done reliably with it. For example I have figured out how to control the first 8 faders (but not master, unfortunately) and mute and solo buttons. These can all be remapped. There is some possibility that your controller has HUI built into it, but reading the specs and info I was not able to find evidence of that. You could experiment by configuring Auria to accept Remote from the LX61.

Suggest you start with the above and check that you can start from beginning, continue and stop the transport and we can go from there!

Regards, Nic.

Hi @jakerslaw,

Rewind is easy. Just comment out (put a # at the start) of the second rule (BX 67 7F = FA +C).

Start/Stop/Continue are standard MIDI messages. The messages to control other things are 'HUI' protocol messages which are a bit trickier (because HUI is proprietary to Mackie and developers who access it have to sign an NDA). I'm not a HUI developer but I have found enough information about how it works to figure things out.

I need to get the controller numbers for your 8 sliders (like I said it is not possible to control the master fader as we are only pretending to be a 'one-way' HUI) like you did for the transport buttons. If you can fire up midiwrench again and slide each a little and let me know controller numbers for faders 1-8 I can give you rules to make the sliders in Auria move.

I'm not sure about record; I would have to research that as that would be a HUI command.

Regards, Nic.

Hi jakersjaw,

Try these rules for the first 2 track faders. If they work, I'll expand this for 8 faders.

# LX61/Auria faders (1-2)
BE 0C = 90 00 7F +C
BE 0C = B0 0F 00 +D50 +C
BE 0C = B0 2F 40 +D50 +C
BE 0C = B0 00 +D50 +C
BE 0C = B0 20 00 +D50 +C

BE 0D = 90 00 7F +C
BE 0D = B0 0F 01 +D50 +C
BE 0D = B0 2F 40 +D50 +C
BE 0D = B0 01 +D50 +C
BE 0D = B0 21 00 +D50 +C


What would you like the rotary knobs to do in Auria? Will look into record soon.

Regards, Nic.

Hi jakersjaw,

You might need to do the following: (pasted from other thread)

4. Start/switch over to Auria, select Menu>Settings>MIDI and select 'Receive Remote' for MidiBridge. Other defaults should not need changing (Remote Protocol: Mackie HUI, MMC Device ID: 1). Press X icon to dismiss menu and return to Auria mixer.

That may be it, but I will check the rules above in a device tomorrow morning.

Regards, Nic.

Hi jakersjaw,

I think I realise what the problem is. When midiwrench says channel 15 I forgot that it numbers them from 0 and not 1. I tightened the rules a little to only react to the controller on channel 15 which his come back to haunt me. Try these (slightly loosened) rules instead:


# LX61/Auria faders (1-2)
BX 0C = 90 00 7F +C
BX 0C = B0 0F 00 +D50 +C
BX 0C = B0 2F 40 +D50 +C
BX 0C = B0 00 +D50 +C
BX 0C = B0 20 00 +D50 +C

BX 0D = 90 00 7F +C
BX 0D = B0 0F 01 +D50 +C
BX 0D = B0 2F 40 +D50 +C
BX 0D = B0 01 +D50 +C
BX 0D = B0 21 00 +D50 +C

Any luck?

Regards, Nic.