Hello Lawrence,
If used in the way that you currently have it configured, then yes -- you should find that Rodgers piston presses, as well as touch-screen presses, will indeed be recorded and played back via Cubase. However, similarly it depends upon appropriate codes having been assigned within the organ definitions for the virtual stop switches, so it's probably advisable to test. (St. Anne's will certainly record and play back touch-screen stop changes.)
Lougheed wrote:The remaining issue would then be up to Jiri to "assign role codes to the virtual expression pedal controls in the organ definition" file.
I can't be the only one experiencing this issue.
I wrote to Jiri with the details anyway.
It would actually be technically possible to work around the issue by using two virtual MIDI cables (one Hauptwerk Sequencer MIDI OUT->Cubase, and another Cubase->Hauptwerk Sequencer MIDI IN) in place of the Hauptwerk VST Link on the Hauptwerk MIDI IN ports and MIDI OUT ports screens (with the other ends enabled and routed to/from the tracks appropriately in Cubase. I will email you a tutorial that describes how to do that. However, you would need to be extremely careful to configure it properly, otherwise you could easily get MIDI feedback loops and resulting crashes/freezes or strange behaviour.
Also, with those Sonus Paradisi organ definitions as they are currently, it would mean that MIDI sys-ex messages would be recorded in Cubase when you moved the expression pedals, which would be very difficult for you to edit meaningfully (compared to MIDI control changes or NRPNs, which Hauptwerk would use in preference, were appropriate codes assigned in the organ definitions).
You could perhaps try contacting Jiri to see whether/when he expects to patch those organ definitions, then decide accordingly. In the meantime, the simplest option might be to stick to using it as you have it configured now and avoid using those particular sample sets for recording for now. Alternatively/additionally, you could use Hauptwerk's built-in MIDI recorder to actually record piece from those particular sample sets, then import the resulting MIDI files into Cubase (complete with MIDI sys-ex messages for the expression pedals, again bearing in mind that MIDI sys-ex messages aren't usually convenient to edit meaningfully en masse).
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.