NI Battery 2 Read/Write Automation in Cubase??

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Posted by djillicit on Jan-06-2007 08:19:

NI Battery 2 Read/Write Automation in Cubase??

Hey all,

I'm having trouble with getting the read/write automation for Battery 2 to work with Cubase. I enable to the write automation on both the channel AND the VST itself, I play the track, manipulate the knobs that I want recorded, and when I hit stop and enable the read automation on both the VST and the channel, none of the automation is recorded. The control stays at the last setting that I left it on...

Any pointers on this? What am I doing wrong?

Also, if anyone can answer how to assign the knobs on Battery 2 to the knobs on my midi controller, that'd be awesome. Some VSTs make it easy, apparently Battery does not!

Cheers...

Posted by DigiNut on Jan-06-2007 14:33:

You have to actually map the controls first in Battery. Right click on the knob and it will bring up a menu you can use to set the automation channel (1-127). Then it will appear as a "named" automation in the drop-down list in Cubase and you can read/write/record however you want.

The same menu lets you map to MIDI controllers and has a MIDI learn. Just change the mode to MIDI instead of Host.

Posted by djillicit on Jan-06-2007 21:53:

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Originally posted by DigiNut
You have to actually map the controls first in Battery. Right click on the knob and it will bring up a menu you can use to set the automation channel (1-127). Then it will appear as a "named" automation in the drop-down list in Cubase and you can read/write/record however you want.

The same menu lets you map to MIDI controllers and has a MIDI learn. Just change the mode to MIDI instead of Host.

Thanks for the reply. Actually, when I right-click on the knob, it brings up a screen with a menu entitled "Automation" with values 1-63 assignable. Say I've selected a cell, I click on the "Filter" knob to bring up those options, and I want to assign the "Cutoff" knob to one of the midi controlls (or to at least be able to see which midi control number it is, so I can manipulate it manually!).

I right click on "Cutoff," dbl-click on one of the IDs that are "unused" and it automatically assigns it "group filter --> Cutoff" w/ the values 0 and 0 for the p and g columns next to it. I hit "set" to assign the values, then close. So far so good...? What's next? Nothing different shows in Cubase's channel when I try to find the automation in there, and it still won't write/read automation. Where's the problem?

Thanks again for your help, it's much appreciated.

Posted by DigiNut on Jan-06-2007 22:58:

If you've assigned it to MIDI then you're obviously not going to see it as an automation channel, you need to give it a MIDI signal.

If you've assigned it as automation, and you're not seeing it in the automation list of the primary Battery channel, then you're looking in the wrong place, because it will definitely appear there. The correct channel is going to have 128 automation lanes to pick from, usually numbered, but they'll be named if you've assigned them.

I also have no idea where you got "0" and "p" and "g" from... you just assign the knob to an automation or MIDI parameter, period.