Topic: How to protect OT against unwanted linking to controllers?

Hi there,

just a question:
How to make sure, that Organteq Controllers are safe against linking to a hardware controller?
Maybe a dumb question. I know how to find the MIDI-Settings window, but it not really helped. On version 2.03 here.

What happened here:
I had Organteq as one instrument track in Cubase and other instruments on other tracks. I changed on a vienna instrument via midi learn to link it to one knob of my MIDI-Controller. And did not touch Organteq. After linking the other instrument to the controller knob I realised that something changed at Organteq, too. So when moving the knob at the hardware controller not only the Vienna instruments parameter changed, but also the crescendo (?) at organteq. Something I didn't want.

After that I took a look at the Midi Mappings page and hoped to identify the certain controller, but no dice.
after that I tried the freeze function for MIDI-mappings, not sure if this is the right way. So either to protect against unwanted changes or to have a way to undo things like that would be cool.

Any insights are appreciated.

Last edited by Thomekk (25-03-2024 20:20)

Re: How to protect OT against unwanted linking to controllers?

Thomekk wrote:

Hi there,

just a question:
How to make sure, that Organteq Controllers are safe against linking to a hardware controller?
Maybe a dumb question. I know how to find the MIDI-Settings window, but it not really helped. On version 2.03 here.

What happened here:
I had Organteq as one instrument track in Cubase and other instruments on other tracks. I changed on a vienna instrument via midi learn to link it to one knob of my MIDI-Controller. And did not touch Organteq. After linking the other instrument to the controller knob I realised that something changed at Organteq, too. So when moving the knob at the hardware controller not only the Vienna instruments parameter changed, but also the crescendo (?) at organteq. Something I didn't want.

After that I took a look at the Midi Mappings page and hoped to identify the certain controller, but no dice.
after that I tried the freeze function for MIDI-mappings, not sure if this is the right way. So either to protect against unwanted changes or to have a way to undo things like that would be cool.

Any insights are appreciated.

I do not know if this is possible in Cubase, but I use Reaper and simply connect the controller input to different VST channels while translating the incoming midi  from the controller to different channels....

Re: How to protect OT against unwanted linking to controllers?

Thomekk wrote:

After that I took a look at the Midi Mappings page and hoped to identify the certain controller, but no dice.
after that I tried the freeze function for MIDI-mappings, not sure if this is the right way. So either to protect against unwanted changes or to have a way to undo things like that would be cool.

All MIDI controllers, MIDI notes or other MIDI commands that affect the state of Organteq can be found in the "Action Mapping" tab of the "MIDI mappings" window.
If you remove all entries there, Organteq can no longer be changed via MIDI commands, but only via the GUI or via Sysex commands.

At the top of the Action mapping tab there is a MIDI monitor where you can see which commands have been received and have changed the settings - intentionally or unintentionally.
BTW: The crescendo pedal responds to the mod wheel (CC01) by default.

The Freeze function is used to retain certain (or all) Organteq settings when changing presets or instruments. In your case, this probably doesn't apply, if I've understood your question correctly.

Since you are working with Cubase, there are other ways to filter out unwanted MIDI commands, e.g. using the Transformer as a MIDI insert plugin on the instrument track