• By selecting “Studio Module” from the Modules menu, and then selecting “Patch Manager” from the menu.
• From the Arrange window, by clicking the Patchname popup in the Inspector or a Patch in the Patchname column in the Track List.
• By holding down [Ctrl] and double clicking a Part in the Arrange window.
The Patch Manager has two modes, depending on whether it is opened from the Modules menu or from the Arrange window. There are distinct differences to these two modes. The functionality in the window is mostly identical, but your actions lead to slightly different results. The details are referred to later in this chapter and in the chapter "The Arrange Window" on page 133, but the general difference is important to understand even at this point:
• When you open the Patch Manager from the Arrange window, what you see in the window is related to what Instrument you have selected on the Track, and actions in the Patch Manager will affect your Arrangement. You also get a Goto pop-up menu, which you don't when you open it from the Modules menu.
• When you open the Patch Manager from the Modules menu, you do not affect your Song in any way, the Studio Module behaves more like a separate program than a part of Cubase. You will probably use this way of accessing the Patch Manager for housekeeping chores, assembling banks, storing to and getting from disk etc. You get a Device pop-up menu that lets you select between the different devices in the rig (which you won't do if you opened this window from the Arrange window).
• Also, when you open the Patch Manager from the “Modules menu”, for some devices you will have more control than when you open it from the Arrange window. For example, with the Roland D-10 you get the ability to select "Tones" for a Timbre (Roland terminology) which you can't from the Arrange window. To find out the abilities of a driver for a certain device, try opening the Patch Manager in both ways and also have a look in the "info" dialog in the Setup window.
• If a device isn’t included in the Instrument menu in the Arrange window, it can still be selected from the Device pop-up in the Patch Manager.P If you try to open the Patch Manager but the device can not handle individual Patches at all, via MIDI, only complete Data Dumps (as will be the case with some MIDI utility devices) the Data Dump window will open instead of the Patch Manager. See page 124.