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TC Electronic M300 device panel
(MK II version)

       This is a panel I did for this cheap and very handy reverb and fx unit from the Danish company.
I bought this reverb for setting headphones mix, but the inclusion of the external effects in Nuendo 3.0 gave me the opportunity to use it on much more occasions.
The renaissance of the mixermaps in the form of the device panels allows to integrate the outboard gear into the software environment. Despite some shortcomings that will hopefully get fixed in the forseable future, it's good fun to use the panels with the snapshot mode.

The inability to modify the save mode (prg chg or snapshot) after you've completed your panel is a showstopper for most...
Looking into the two different xml file and comparing their strings, I isolated the needed one...
Finally I also cleaned the image pool and added some presets (snapshots).
So here is the new version of this panel with snapshot mode. 
           
TC M300 device panel w/snapshot
It has both panels (so with snapshot under the main node and mdi pgr chg under the channel node 1) but the second has the prg select disabled in the panel because it interfered with the snapshot mode.
As a rule of thumbs :
DO NOT PUT ANY PRG CHG PARAMETERS ON A SNAPSHOT ENABLED PANEL !


TC M300 device panel w/prg chg
It contains only the channel node with program changes so here you'll find back the ping and level setting window that pops up on plug in insertion.

Both panels have the mixer fx & rev panels + the rev inspector panel + the external controller mixer strip (for Houston/Mackie ctrl etc...).

To install :

  1. Copy the presets folder under C:\Documents and Settings\your_profile\Application Data\Steinberg\Nuendo 3\Presets\
  2. Open Nuendo or Cubase
  3. Import the device panel with the midi device manager



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So What ?
TC M300 Device Panel
(MK III version)

       Here we go again. Messing again with the XML files and reading the very good tutorial by 2 Cubase SX users, it is possible to have tab browsing in the panels !!!
So I've reprogrammed the whole shebang again, and there you have them, the final TC M300 panels for Cubase and Nuendo.

       I've done this as a practice - I know what you're thinking... ;-)  - and this will be the last TC M300 version I'll release. Time to move on to other gear, but I won't do it before Steinberg releases a proper device panel programming tool. Hacking the xml is fun for learning prurposes, but I doubt the FS1R panel included in Nuendo/Cubase that has these tab feature has been done inside the program itself. They must have in house proper tools for that matter.... How about sharing it with all of us Steiny ? ;-)

       As for the MKII version, I've included a few snapshot presets, I've removed the ability to send prog changes (you still can do it with a normal midi track). Now with three panels, you've got it all covered. Mixer, inspector and of course the rack panel.


rev & FX on tab (just like beer)
 
If you're interested in doing your own, here's the link to an excellent page by C.Y.KONG where he explains the workaround procedure to copy devices bits from A to B.
Thanks to Ron Garrison from the Cubase forum as well who shared his findings about the tabbed panels.
       

Vic Emerson has corrected the layout for a Mac version which was shifting the graphics due to different skining or placement rules on the Mac OSX. So in the download, are 2 specific OS versions of the panels.
Thanks to him for this great contribution!
Credits :
Mac version screenshot  from Vic Emerson