LINE 6 FBV Express MkII Manual [74/82] Steinberg cubase fbv mkii setup tutorial

FBV MkII Advanced User Guide: Controlling 3rd Party Software

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Steinberg Cubase

- FBV MkII Setup Tutorial

Line 6 FBV MkII devices can be conﬁgured to control numerous Cubase parameters, including

transport functions, mixer parameters and more! To follow are the instructions for conﬁguring FBV

MkII to function with Steinberg Cubase

4 on Windows

, however, the steps should be similar for

other recent Cubase

and Nuendo

versions on both Windows

and Mac

as well.

Line 6 FBV Control Application Settings

First, before launching Cubase, connect your FBV to your computer’s USB port, launch the Line 6

FBV Control Application and load the FBV-Default.fbv preset.

• Above shows the FBV-Default preset settings for an FBV Shortboard MkII. For an FBV Express

MkII you’ll see only the A, B, C, D footswitch and Pedal rows. This preset assigns MIDI commands

to all the device’s MIDI Controllers for us so that we can then map them in Cubase.

• The above steps assign MIDI commands to all the device’s MIDI Controllers for us so that we

can then map them in Cubase. The steps conﬁgure some of the FBV footswitches to transmit

MMC (MIDI Machine Control) commands to control Cubase transport, and MIDI CC messages

to trigger other Cubase functions.

• You likely do not need to make any changes to these default settings, but if you do make any

changes, it is a good idea to go to File > Save As and this as a new preset - perhaps titled

something clever, such as “Cubase.fbv”.

• Exit the FBV Control application.

Cubase MIDI Port Setup

Since you are using your FBV MkII device as a MIDI controller device, you’ll want to exclude it from

the Cubase “All Inputs” MIDI Port settings. This way, if you choose the “All Input” option for one of

your MIDI tracks, the track will not receive input from your FBV device and record its MIDI controller

data into the track. To conﬁgure this setting, go to the Cubase Devices > Device Setup dialog. Since

the settings we used in the Line 6 FBV Control application conﬁgured all FBV controllers to transmit

to the FBV USB MIDI Out port 1, we can select just this ﬁrst FBV MIDI port in Cubase, and de-select

FBV MIDI ports 2, 3 & 4.