Finalizing things as we speak - should be out very, very soon.
Hi,
I am pretty new to Metagrid. I tried to find material online to implement and make my grids for KEYSWITCHES but struggling to get a start on. I tried with sending NOT ON/OFF messages, bit it does not seem to work as MetaGrid is no in ALL MIDI INPUTS. Perhaps you could point me at a method that works? I am using PC and CUBASE
Hi - and welcome to the MetaGrid Pro and the forum. Have you installed LoopMIDI per the instructions in the MIDI and DAW Setup Guide?
Yes. It works kind of perfectly, still trying to get dynamic recognition working. I just want to create my own grid for KEYSWITCHING, I don’t know how to do that. I know how to create a grid, and add functions to it (I have doe it before and used MACROS) but I don’t know how to implement KEYSWITCHES.
I operate in two ways:
1- I load a MULTI instrument and the switch happen with a not (ie C-1,C#-1) etc.
2 - I also use MULTIPLE articulation in one KONTAKT instance, where every articulation is on a different channel
It shouldn’t be difficult. Create a button. Go to edit mode, click Macro. The Macro interface lets you assign midi information. So you could assign note C0 and channel 1 if that is a keyswitch. Or, for example channel 32 and value 42, for a Spitfire library keyswitch. Set up a couple of buttons and switch between them to check your midi communication is good. Make sure to have your Metagrid Midi in checked in the studio manager for All Midi Inputs.
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Hy, yes that is what I was trying to do. What do I use? When in MACO I can choose:
Continuous controller, Note On, Note Off, Program Change…Midi Seps…UACC…I tried all of them and nothing seem to work.
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Did anyone come up with a better solution here? Something similar to the logic example for babylon waves art conductor, but maybe not as reactive? I was really looking forward to this functionality.
Given how powerful this would be, is there any Cubase bottlenecks we can all go upvote or push on to get that issue fixed, or any support we can provide as a community for the code block that seems to break the windows end of things? This would be by far the best articulation switching option with dynamic track adjustments and it seems so close. 
Multi-Select bulk editing.
Ability to take all selected and adjust their text color, bg color or other parameters. If that’s what the style paste does it’s too scary as I don’t know what it overrides and feels too risky. Pretty sure that’s what you can do with Copy, then “paste style” and choose the style settings, but the parameters to select are slower than just doing it manually. Needs to be much faster on what it can paste over like just the style preset, or color, look, without 50 options.
hi @dragsquares , when doing this in keyboard maestro, the articulations window in the info line pops up in order for the articulation to be selected by KM command, but for @JTB that window doesn’t pop up, which is way better, wonder how that is even possible in Bome without expanding the articulations window, how can it find the right articulation?
hi @JTB how does it select the articulation without opening the articulations pop-up window from the info line?
It actually does. It’s just too quick to see. And I have recently changed the system from several mouse clicks to one mouse click and arrow down commands which makes the list more visible unfortunately. As Cubase 14 changed the way the articulations are listed. For some reason Steinberg decided to display them in one column that extends off the screen which made it basically impossible to work with large Expression Maps.
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The implementation for Cubase 12-14 is more visible because I’m playing it safe. I found it to be more reliable across various systems when the process included some pauses. These are editable if you want to experiment. Cubase 15 is perhaps more finicky about it - so I had to engineer a solution myself. But it works very well, and it handles very large articulation counts easily.
The style paste does exactly that. Works very well. Try it out on safety copies of things if you are uncertain about it - I did myself, and now I’m comfortable with it.