How to program return key in metagrid

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Hi, this has bugged me for years.

I am using Cubendo.. I know how to program add track.. so the pop up window opens and you have the choice of Add track or Cancel.. how do you program in Metagrid, for it to click Add Track, so that pop up window closes?

rsp

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Usually TAB works on those pop up menus, but not so in this case.

When I come across a missing key command in Cubase I use Bome MIDI Translator to mouse click the UI. Clunky, but beats grabbing the mouse.

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Just figured it out…

So I want to add a particular vsti from scratch.

Add Instrument

Pause (0.5 works second)

Esc

Return

(the actual plugin)

it wasn’t working without the pause

rsp

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Thanks for sharing the solution. The pause gives Cubase enough time to create
and focus the Add Instrument dialog before the following keystrokes are sent.
This sequence should be useful to anyone building a similar macro.

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I just changed the timing to 0.3 seconds and it works (even quicker obviously)..

rsp

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Just out of curiosity, what are you trying to achieve with this specific macro? With the steps you are listing what I get is a VSTi instrument track with the last instrument loaded

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Yep.. exactly.. I actually added a two steps that would load the instrument, open the editor and make the instrument track ready.

But yeah, I put my favourite 36 vsti’s as shortcuts and I can load them with one button.

But the thread started off as me wanting to figure out how to close modal screens with metagrid.

rsp

rsp

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But how you actually load the instrument that you want with Metagrid? As I wrote, Add Instrument, Pause, Esc, Return just gives you the last previously loaded instrument

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ok I see what you mean..I didn’t put the whole thing… let me show you exactly what i did..

  1. Add Track - Instrument
  2. Pause 0.30 s
  3. Esc
  4. Return
  5. (Actual Vsti - Omnisphere, Kontakt, Arp 2600.. whatever it is you want that macro to load)
  6. Pause 0.30 s
  7. R

In Step 5 you load whatever instrument you want to load…

rsp

Macro-Add an Instrument_Mac.mmacro (1.1 KB)

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Now I get it, thanks a lot! But what is the R step at the end? Is it your shortcut for renaming the track? Because what I noticed is that with this kind of macro all the created track initially have the same name. The way I started using MGP to load instrument a while ago was to program the macro to click inside the instrument box thanks to MIDI Translator Pro and then have the macro actually write the name of the instrument. It is a bit clunky, but it works, and the track have the same name that they would have if the instrument would be loaded manually. Of course, for this to work you need to have something that can click at specific coordinates on the screen. Keyboard maestro can do this on the Mac and Bome MIDI Translator Pro can do this on both Mac and PC

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the R puts the track in record mode so I can immediately play it..

I don’t name my tracks by instrument name, but by preset name (which clearly I haven’t selected when I first load the instrument).. so this method works for me, but may not work for you of course.

rsp

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Ah, now I see, it seems that our Cubase settings are different, I don’t need to put a separate step for arming the track; as soon as the track is created it is record enabled and so it is ready to play.
Thanks again for all the explanations!

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Most Welcome.. there was a time that i too. had select a track armed the track but at some point it bothered me..

To each their own.. You are most welcome.

rso