Software in 2019: 100MB download that is the *download tool*, not the software itself. I don't even.
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Oh, right. It's written in Java. And includes a full JRE *and* a WebKit implementation. Then the actual software to be installed is 15GB.
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I literally don't have 15GB free on this machine. Good thing I'm in the middle of an incidental SSD swap-a-roo that will fix this... But sigh. And the only reason I need Cubase is to reverse engineering the DAW Remote MIDI commands of the Yamaha MX because they're undocumented.
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Oh great, the actual software is 256MB and the rest of the 15GB are bullshit extras.
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And of *course* I had to spend half an hour looking through support articles and end up having to download a 50MB "repair tool" because their obnoxious licensing setup is broken and doesn't work out of the box.
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Looks like there aren't really any magic input MIDI messages, and most everything that matters is what the Yamaha editor (not Cubase) uses. I did however realize that some buttons send *HID keypress events* instead MIDI messages...
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And the only reason those didn't work on Linux is because that HID interface is part of USB config #2 (which also includes a Yamaha needlessly-vendor-specific USB audio iface) and the default #1 is only standard USB audio and no HID. A quick udev rule fixed that.
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Looks like there are at least a few useful undocumented sysex msgs, for VSTi control presets. F0 43 10 7F 17 01 [30-3B] 21 [8 ASCII chars] [decoupled flag 01/00] [value 00-7F] F7 sets the value text and value indicator status for a control.
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And F0 43 10 7F 01 [30-3B] 09 [24 ASCII chars] F7 sets the label for a control (only 8 chars visible each). This stuff could be handy to abuse for generic status display.
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