If you hold down [Alt] and double click on a Patch, you can rename it (or give it a name if it doesn't have any). This will not change the name in the display in the device, only in Cubase. If you want to send out the name to the device to permanently rename it, hold down [Ctrl] and click on the Patch name. This assumes your device has the possibility to reprogram one Patch at a time (with some devices you must send out the entire bank in one go, see page 124).
There are reasons to rename Patches in the cells even if you don't send them out permanently. Your device may use short cryptic names and the Studio Module can handle longer names and maybe more special characters. Furthermore, in many effect devices and other "smaller" MIDI devices no names at all are used on the front panel. You can then use this feature to type in names for all or some of your favourite Patches. Saving the Bank will include the names.
For details on names and their File Handling, see page 145.
Find, on the pop-up Functions menu displays a dialog box where you can type in some text and hit [Return]. The program then searches through all the Banks for Patches which contain this text. If one is found, this will be highlighted on the screen, and the corresponding Patch will also “get selected in the device”. The keyboard command for Find is [Alt]-[Ctrl]-[F].
If you select Find Next or press [Alt]-[Ctrl]-[G], the program searches for the next occurrence of the string you typed when selecting Find.For example, if you are searching for the perfect piano sound, activate Find and type in for example "pia". You can then use Find Next to quickly step through and audition all sounds with names containing the text "pia".
Many devices have special Macro Editor definitions as part of the device Driver. To access this, simply double click on a Patch name. The Macro Editor is described in detail on page 131.
You can Copy and Paste Patches between cells (one Patch at a time). If you have the Patches loaded into memory, this will not only copy the settings within Cubase, it will permanently rearrange the Patches within your devices.
There's a Load and Save command on the pop-up Functions menu. This allows you to save the Patches you currently see in the Patch Manager as a "Device File", or to fill the cells in the Patch Manager with Patches in a file on disk. For details on File Handling, see page 143.
P Please observe that these options only load/save one Data Type at a time, the Data Type you currently have visible in the window.