Line 6 FBV MkII Advanced User Guide, English (Rev. 2)

FBV MkII Advanced User Guide: Controlling 3rd Party SoftwareSteinberg Cubase ® - FBV MkII Setup TutorialLine 6 FBV MkII devices can be configured to control numerous Cubase parameters, includingtransport functions, mixer parameters and more! To follow are the instructions for configuring FBVMkII to function with Steinberg Cubase ® 4 on Windows ® , however, the steps should be similar forother recent Cubase ® and Nuendo ® versions on both Windows ® and Mac ® as well.Line 6 FBV Control Application SettingsFirst, before launching Cubase, connect your FBV to your computer’s USB port, launch the Line 6FBV Control Application and load the FBV-Default.fbv preset.• Above shows the FBV-Default preset settings for an FBV Shortboard MkII. For an FBV ExpressMkII you’ll see only the A, B, C, D footswitch and Pedal rows. This preset assigns MIDI commandsto 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 wecan then map them in Cubase. The steps configure some of the FBV footswitches to transmitMMC (MIDI Machine Control) commands to control Cubase transport, and MIDI CC messagesto trigger other Cubase functions.• You likely do not need to make any changes to these default settings, but if you do make anychanges, it is a good idea to go to File > Save As and this as a new preset - perhaps titledsomething clever, such as “Cubase.fbv”.• Exit the FBV Control application.Cubase MIDI Port SetupSince you are using your FBV MkII device as a MIDI controller device, you’ll want to exclude it fromthe Cubase “All Inputs” MIDI Port settings. This way, if you choose the “All Input” option for one ofyour MIDI tracks, the track will not receive input from your FBV device and record its MIDI controllerdata into the track. To configure this setting, go to the Cubase Devices > Device Setup dialog. Sincethe settings we used in the Line 6 FBV Control application configured all FBV controllers to transmitto the FBV USB MIDI Out port 1, we can select just this first FBV MIDI port in Cubase, and de-selectFBV MIDI ports 2, 3 & 4.6•28