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Parents and Children

As described above, when you have a Parent Patch selected on one Track, the Studio Module becomes "aware" of how this Parent Patch is built up, and uses this information for setting the Tracks that are assigned "Child Instruments" to the correct Outputs and MIDI Channels, but it does more than so:

• If the MIDI Implementation of the device allows, the names of the Children currently assigned in the device will appear on the "Child Tracks".
• If you select a new Parent Patch, all the Tracks set to play Children will now be set to play the Child Patches of the new Parent Patch.
• When you open the Patch Manager to select a new Child Patch, the Patch Manager will show the Patch the Child currently is set to play, in italics.

 

As there is a relation between Parents and Children you will have to observe the following:

• In Cubase, Tracks are played back from the top down. Therefore, always put Parent Patches "above" Child Patches, so that the Program Change messages (etc.) get sent out in the right order. It might be a good idea to put all the Tracks assigned to Parent Instruments at the top of the Arrange window.

• When receiving a Parent Patch change message, some devices for a short while get "immune" to messages asking them to select Child Patches. This is an idiosyncrasy in the device that the Studio Module can't do much about. Playing the Song from the beginning one more time (when the correct Parent Patch is already selected) will probably do the trick.

• If you insert Parent Patch changes, make sure you leave a short "gap" before any Parts begin which assign Child Patches, for the same reason as above.