How to trigger and record different MIDI patterns with MDI notes | Club Cubase May 19 2023

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We'll go ahead and start with the questions. I see Peter from Montreal it's great to see you uh we have Tony uh hudspeth just ask him hello Greg how are you I hope you're doing well so I'm doing great thank you great for being on the live stream hoping to do it today everyone right um the time machine Heartbreak says, uh, why does the factory content for Halloween appear as hsse edition in the VST itself? Could they have a better name? So they're just going to be

different

libraries, so let's say if we come here to our vsd instruments and let's go. to Halloween Sonic SC, so when we go through um, we'll just say "Okay", so when we get here to our different libraries, you know each one of them will have a name based on the actual library that you know, so some of those libraries were actually just made directly from previous versions, that's why you see the howian Sonic SE recently that had been renamed to uh Holly and Sonic, so when it was released halian seven, if we zoom in on Holly and Sonic here and we get for load we can see all of our different libraries um so we'll see you know when we get Halloween Sonic so we can think of this as an early edition of Halloween Sonic so up until about two months ago this would be contained. which comes with the different levels of Cubase and for compatibility just because we have updated the player and the player will be loaded with all the projects that refer to Holly and Sonic SE, we wanted to make sure that this had continuity, you know, so that If you are looking for particular sounds, you knew which folder to look for, so that's what Halloween Sonic SE artist means, so instead of having all that written down, we could do that, so that's because this content is still available. in Howling and Sonic and it originated there in Howie and Sonic SC and that's why it keeps the Legacy name, but I'll pass it on as a point for the team, so we also have the Heartbreak time machine. question, uh, when using Time Warp to align bars, how does Cubase choose where to add a tempo change point, a ranger track selection area, the closest clip, so while we're doing a sort of Time Warp um, when you do that, that's where you actually place the bar, so let's go ahead and take a quick look, so let's say if I was doing a quick time jump on this project, I should say that we have kind of a mix of two tracks and I want to turn this down volume-wise, so let's say I don't know what the tempo is, so you can say, "Okay, this is where," so I'm going to open up the tempo track.

Okay, when we get there we're going to adjust our tempo track here and we're going to put this on. in our warp grid, so as we do this I can say Okay, this is going to be, we're just going to listen, so we say, okay, this is where measure two starts, so wherever I put measure two, automatically and I I'm just going to hide this and then what I'm going to do here is move measure three, so wherever I move measure three two, wherever it lands is where the tempo value will be placed and let me continue here.

So you could just come here, wherever you move the beat, that's where it will be tied to the beat, and as we move the beat, the tempo will adjust accordingly, just to fit perfectly with that particular setting. there it's based, you know where measure four is, that's where it's going to be and if you want to go and adjust up to the measure as we adjust the rhythm here, now we can do it by measure or by beat and as we do The adjustment here as we move measure three as it moves, the tempo is automatically calculated to show that, so it's not necessarily tied to the event but directly to the grid line of the measure as it moves or the beat location is fine, so we have Arnold checking.

We have a flashback checking in from a sunny Finland, we see Jazz dude and we also see Cubase index threads, so we have music for the World Peace album, Taylor from Pine Grove Pennsylvania, thanks for being well, we have Mazda LBC. telling everyone to have fun, let's see what's gone from the Cubase index, congratulating the guy Jazz on his um for Cubase Nation Discord, okay and we've got Mark Esper who's happy that we're getting off to a good start live, so let's see Dallas LaRue um. he just says when you use tempo detection, do you ever use it in a musical mode? uh, when to divide by two and if you can remove the tempo detection track and the results remain the same.

Well, let's say if you were taking this particular track, normally we don't want it to be in musical mode because we don't want the events to change based on the tempo, so we would probably want to select the event and make sure it's not in musical mode because, otherwise it will change as we wish. How to do tempo detection, the pitch and time of the event can change so often when we do tempo detection that we want to figure out what the tempo of this is and keep this source file the same, which is why you usually don't do it. .

Don't put it in musical mode or make sure it's not in musical mode before doing a tempo detection, so let's say if we do a tempo detection, we'll come here, let's say tempo detection project and we'll analyze everything okay, so Let's say. As we listen to it, we'll just say now, sometimes you may notice that it's detected in half the time or double the time, so you say, okay, let's multiply by two, so if that was the feeling, that's when you could do it. and then if you're in, you know, dealing with triplets or if you were in three, four times and you wanted to go to four or four times, depending on that, that's when you could multiply by four, three and three, four, so you know . you just listen to the results, you know, because sometimes depending on the material, let's say if there's not a lot of possibilities, it can actually dictate that the tempo is, you know, half of what it normally would be with something that has quite a bit of stability.

Rhythmic tendencies like the drums in the project, so you know depending on the material, if you notice that it's good, it's detected, you know twice as fast as what I think the rhythms are, then you could divide by two if it's half as fast and multiply by two and then it will automatically adapt to those different changes as needed, yeah okay, it's cool to see the parabot activated in the last part of the question, and can you remove the tempo detection track and the results remain the same, so the audio file then? If we remove the tempo here, the audio file will play, but its time and its reference to the time grid won't be there, so you can remove it and start over, so you know the audio file will play. back, but other

midi

tracks probably won't sync, you know it won't, you know the grid won't be aligned to the project and that's what tempo detection does, it aligns the grid to the particular project.

It's great to see you on the live stream Dallas, okay, we also see Capt Energy's music, okay, we have Rick Valentine from Charlotte, it's a pleasure to see you and he gives you advice while playing the tracks from the movie. Rick is an incredibly talented songwriter, we're glad you could make it. today, all right, we have Robbie bowling from Dallas, Texas, energetic music, he says wow, 25,000 questions, huh, that's a huge library and we want to thank Jan for compiling it all for us. It's a very long Word file, so it's about 500 pages or so. Well, we have Stefan checking in from Sweden.

We have the keyboard saying hello, thank you for joining us today. Alright Master LBC, ask Greg at 12 how to set up an external Yamaha USB

midi

instrument with multiple outputs on USB midi connection. So what you want to do is generally, you know, you know you need to configure. If you have multiple outputs on the instrument, you would need to set up multiple external instruments, but to set this up we would go to your studio menu. and this is in Cubase Pro uh you go to your audio connections and if you have external instruments, then say, okay, I have a reason or let's say I upgrade it to a montage, okay, and now what I have to do is search available uh inputs on my audio interface, so if you have six outputs from your Yamaha keyboard, you can set up Mount One, Mount Two, Mount Three, etc., and then just tell it which actual connections they're connected to, so everything comes out of a stereo output.

You could just come in there and be able to do the mix inside the keyboard and capture it or if you wanted to split it up, no matter how many outputs you have, you could set up multiple instruments uh VST for different inputs in your system then all we would have to do is get to the track from your ad and get to the instrument and we would say external instrument and I want this to go to let's say our Motif and then while we do this, set up the midi input and at that point it will send midi directly and then you could treat it as a virtual instrument, you could have a gain right there, okay, so we've got John Berry checking in from old England, where it sounds like a very nice 19 degrees.

It's really cold in America, uh, but Rose, it's probably around 60 60 62 something like that, okay, wonderful, seeing Tron from Norway again on the live stream, glad you can make it today, okay, uh, Nathaniel Walker says, uh, Cubase Nation Discord is official. so it wasn't officially done by Steinberg, uh, but you know it is, you know it's not an official Steinberg thing where Steinberg doesn't have a particular, you know we don't run it, Steinberg doesn't run it, they don't select it. Um, so it's not officially Steinberg, so it's always kind of like The Unofficial uh Cubase Nation Discord, but it's still a wonderful use, wonderful resource of information, and we have Benny from Sweden also checking us in, thanks for joining us, uh, Derek Marshall. question eh, I've been working on my first Atmos mix in Cubase 12 Pro and I'm very confused about how to manage the bar shape, the overall volume, the overall track volume, do you have any tips that you know?

Basically it's just going to I know you know, some know the basic gain structures, there's nothing you really know, so it might be up to you if you're monitoring it with uh in Atmos, you know, or if you're rendering it with, as you know, uh 12 speakers. versus rendering it with binaural, but you should have aso this is a way of working in a non-linear way, but there's no direct equivalent of, you know. It's kind of an Ableton style arrangement or live loops, so you might be able to work this way and be a little more creative and be able to

trigger

it from MIDI.

Yeah, okay, so we see Benny's little clicks. like it says loudly in the track and then it sounds like usually if it shows up in a track it might be strange that the audio interface itself is causing a problem because you know there's usually a lot of stuff playing but if it's kind of a demo, you know, make sure you like your watches or they're set correctly, that's right, John Berry asks, hey Greg. Does the VST update this week to 3.78 only affect new or updated plugins or does it have any implications for existing plugins? so you always know that Cubase runs the vst2 and vst3 plugins.

It won't run vst2 if you're running natively on Apple Silicon, but it won't have any impact on existing plugins, it'll just add more capabilities in the future. development, options and capabilities, okay, we've seen that Michael's teams are on the ice cream distribution case, thanks for that, okay, sorry, my chat field jumped up nicely, so Rob from Tarpon Springs , Florida, says how you would move older tracks. audio and/or midi from an older backup version to your current version of Cubase you're working on, so if you wanted to add something older, move older audio tracks, perhaps from a backup version previous security, so if you have a backup, let's say If I wanted to come here, let's just import the audio file or we'll know that if you have the backup open, you can just drag and drop it directly onto the timeline, so that It is a fairly common method.

Another way is just come here to go ok I want to import a non-audio file, let's see if I can make the same mistake three times in a row, let's say import tracks from the Project and now you can select a particular project here and say: "It is "Okay, I want these two, so now I want to create new tracks." you could put it on particular tracks here again, press OK and those tracks can now be imported and you could import tracks if you want to come and say why don't we see media when I'm going to import tracks. from the Project, I probably just got here and you could choose to import the events and we can say, "Okay, let's select the match," so I want to import, let's say "piano," close one two, and we'll just say "select the matching track" , press "OK" and now I can see that those particular tracks from another previous or backup project could be imported simply by using the import function um import tracks from the Project, so we have a question: Does Cubase sell 10 artists?

So the current version is Cubase 12. So that's it. the latest version with that, so we generally don't sell older generations of software, so our Cubase artist 10 is no longer for sale as a new product, but you might be able to get it from another user or something, okay . we see Rob asking: will the tempo of the previous version be synced if you've made current changes so it doesn't automatically sync the temp like if you were here and you'd made tempo changes in a project that it's not going to sync? It automatically syncs other projects, so if I've saved changes to Tempo here, let me come up to our Tempo track, so if we have Tempo track data, we won't sync this immediately, whatever you can.

What you need to do is choose to export the tempo track and import it into another one in the other project, but you know that changing a function like Tempo in one project is not going to automatically redo that change in all the other projects you would have to make. do that manually and you could also export the tempo so go to file to export to the tempo track you can also go to import so we can say import and import to the tempo track or let's say import tracks from the project and like we I've done this, if there is a Tempo, you can import the tempo track directly into um so you can import the tempo track from the new changes to other projects, but they are all separate documents so they won't automatically sync with Tempo. changes, okay, it's wonderful to see Nick from England, I'm glad you can do it today, so we'll see, does Cuba sell artists 10 software on CD?

So I don't think, I think with Cubase 10 they stopped making media, we had separate versions. boxed versions that had media and we sent it to warehouses, you know, ship it to, you know, ship it from Hamburg to different distribution centers, but most of the people you know at that time no one bought the version they just wanted to get the version of download so they can have immediate access to it, so it's been discontinued, I think since version 9.5, where there's no physical media, but you can download it and then just install it okay, so the Heartbreak time machine says uh it's it's possible to save a track preset that includes multiple tracks, it has a kind of track preset that says three group tracks and their routing settings, um, so you can save tracks with uh, it's not a track preset, but you can save tracks with routing, so let's say If I wanted to go here and let's say all my drums go to a particular group and I would like to save the drums and the group together, so just say, "Okay, let's add." Now all my batteries, let me add them. a group track to the selected tracks this time, okay, so now let's say all my drums are being routed to this group and if I wanted to save my drums and that group as a collective entity, what I could do is come here and go away to export the selected tracks, okay and I'll just reference the media files where you can copy them if necessary, so we say we're going to export to the selected tracks.

I selected the group and the audio tracks that were routed to it. a new project and now I want to import a track file, so we'll export the selected tracks, import a track file and this is our track file. Now I'll press open, we'll select everything so it's very similar to importing tracks from Project and now when we get here all my tracks are still routed to the group so we can preserve the route so it's not a multitrack preset that won't contain routing but un the selected tracks can keep the route, okay wonderful look nixaya I'm glad you can do well so we have Aguel sending greetings from Switzerland okay we have Jim Fox.

It's wonderful to see Jim Fox from Alexandria Virginia, says, okay, okay, Nintendo 12. template detection, add an unnecessary beat or lose a beat. How can you manually remove or add a beat to the detected tempo without changing the following beats? Okay, so let's do a quick tempo detections. I'll just do a new project. Jim Bradley said a mile or two from me, great to see you on Jim, we'll have to get together now that the greed is over, so we just import, okay, so let's say we want to do a quick tempo detection of this file here, so I turn on my okay so I'm going to select this as your tempo detection so we're going to move on to project tempo detection right now when you do this it's actually going to start and you know you could make adjustments right after so let's say we have our tempo map here, so if you notice that maybe a drum fill came out or something, while this is open, you know we'll see that we have this reanalysis direction, so leave this window open. and it changes you to the time warp tool and then you can just move this, you know, once we're here, you can say Okay, move the measure uh 31 and you can make your adjustments here and then you'll see if this is set my signature here, okay, so I'm going to set this to four four, okay, now I'm going to do this again, okay, now, how would you make an adjustment here with this enabled, automatically, you know, with that enabled how do you make your adjustment, it will calculate again based on that particular point, but even now, if you use OK afterwards, if you didn't, then just use the Time Warp tool and at this point we can say OK, I just want to take the time warp tool and let's we'll make sure we're on the warp grid and I'll just make sure we're inside.

I'm going to start and I'm going to make sure that we're on the warp grid here to start, okay, so just say "warp grid", so now that we're on the warp grid we can just move and what it's going to do is say "ok" , this is supposed to be here and it's going to recalculate from that point on the tempo changes, so if you have this little button on on the right, so make sure you're on the warp grid and then where you see it, just make the adjustment and it will say "Okay", at that point I want the tempo to drop like here in the transient and then it will do an analysis from that point on, so if it became out of the ordinary, you can say, "Okay, let's make this little change," and then it'll reanalyze everything beyond that point, so make sure you're in warp grid mode, leave this dialog open, and it'll put you in kind of, you know, time warp mode and at that point you can just make your adjustments, so it's great to see you on the live stream, Jim, I hope you do.

I'm doing well and maybe I'll ask for some time off on Monday maybe we'll meet on Monday if you're free, so Aldo asks, is it possible to save the midi quantize swing percentage within the project? So I don't think it's stored inside a project, but it's actually just going to be stored inside the particular one that you know if you're doing a quantize, so let's say if we come in and just add a quick instrument track, so if you're applying the percentage for let's say we like the midi insert and we have the quantize plugin, so we're here if we have the swing set directly, uh here, that's going to be saved inside a project if you're doing a quantize, so say, it's well, you do it.

Sixteenth

notes

uh and we open up the quantize panel here and we have our swing percentage, so let's say we're doing 65 swing. We can see that that change we still have our 16th note, but we could have our swing percentage automatically stored as well, so you could just store that as presets, um directly, you know it right there, so you could just store the swing percentage right there. and save it as a preset so you say Okay, I want these to be, you know, uh 16th

notes

and let's say you really like a swing 78, just come here and save a preset or you can delete presets right from the quantize panel and that way that particular setting will always be accessible in any project, but this would be if you're doing quantized tuning. quantize plugin that will be stored within the project itself and if you do it from a quantize panel it will always be global and if you want to do it for a particular track you know I've seen people go as far as just saying a notepad . and you say you know 78 uh percent, you know the swing feels like that and just leave a note if you know it's necessary, you know, requantize uh based on the value that was applied to the particular track.

Okay, okay, okay, so we see a question um it says I bought the complete absolute six pack congratulations on this wonderful collection of instruments uh I need to install howling on Sonic and the trimmed instruments um so you know how you don't need to install howling and Sonic , they all could it will play directly inside howian um you know some things like some if you have a midi file and you want it to play a general midi sound bank. I think that would work within howling sonic and maybe not in the full version of howian. That could be a consideration, but you don't need to know that if you have Halloween you want to do everything in Italian instead of Italian or howl in Sonic, you don't have to install the high end and Sonic, so an agency also when installing Cubase, for which would be something like knowing that there is no difference, like if you knew retro log groov agent SC, you probably wouldn't need to install it because you have groov agent or pad shop two would be the same, so if you already have them installed with Cubase, you don't need to install them again, so okay, wonderful, look at Sable Winters from the Bay Area.

John Berry says, applaud Greg, you need AI when you have real intelligence, so I'm sure there's probably so much information on live streams that someone could provide to make uh of me doing, you know where they can imitate my voice, but I think intelligence is good too okay so let's see uh Arnold ask hello Greg let's say I have audio. file with embedded tempo track if I wantdoesn't seem to show exactly where it is, um on the file region could play a little more if you want to email me. Soren um, I would be happy to answer you. game to see if I can find something with that, but we see kind of a range that is not the full file, so let's say if we do the full file so we can see that if we do just the full file versus organizing it that's indicated, but not specifically where in the range, sorry, I'll play with that a bit more if you want to email me, ok we have a question, how do you make an audio file, for example a kick or snare? a midi track, okay, so if you want to do some kind of drum replacement, we'll show you how to do it, so let's come here, let's say this since I've destroyed it pretty good here, okay, so I take the kick. and the box of this and convert it to MIDI, so with this I have a virtual instrument that is already loaded a Groove agent kit that we can, um, so if we open this up, you know we have everything right, so it just sounds kind of generic battery, so if so.

I'm going to leave that track selected, so I want to go to my drum track here and I'll double click and we'll go to the hit points and we'll say, let's edit the hit points and we want to find the threshold so we just find where our kicks are and then we can say now I have my midi track selected, so I'm going to say let's go to the creation tab. and let's just come and say, let's create a midi note. I'm going to say, let's turn this into a C1. I want to preserve the dynamic speed of the beat, okay, so now if I mute the kick drums, they will now play directly into the VST. instrument so if I want to make it louder or tune it up and if I want to do the same with the snare, I can leave that track selected and we'll come so let's create midi notes and I want to put this on D1 of the first track selected and that's where it is the drums, so that's the midi that's automatically generated, everything is silent, so now if I want to take this snare and make it louder for now, if I wanted to add just a reverb on the snare sample, I could come. over here, let's go to our auxiliary ends, let's say okay, let's just add a verb and send one, have that selected, let's go to the amplifier section so you can do it again, you know, go to the impact points, uh , and once you've set the threshold so that we don't include the tracks that are being filtered, click on a create icon uh here and then create midi notes and then you could send them to a new track or a new destination and you could have both tracks more or less.

By playing directly on top of each other and replacing the battery, that is easily seen. Garrett says comparing the EQ is the revelation of the day, so yeah, it's always fun, it helps solve a lot of problems. You see, uh, my dead friends just say, woo, no. I don't know, I didn't know that was cool, so you see, DS DS, ask, hello, Greg Dave from London. Out of interest, how much time do you have to learn new features of a version of Cubase? You know, I can be playing with him. It's like a month or so before you know, four to six weeks before launch, um, and those are real-time crisis months, you know, not just discovering new features and testing, but also figuring out how introduce them, so, um, yeah.

I have a little bit of time, but you know, it's a lot of late nights and early mornings, I'm just avoiding it so that you know at the time of release, because I get that my phone is going to blow up, my email is going to blow up, how to do this, how to do it. Do this, you already know and I'm usually also doing a kind of video tour for new features, so okay, so you can see the Jazz Juices match, the two frequency curves for comparison in one window, It is not new, there is a release.

Cubase level, so I think it was eight or eight point five when something like that was introduced, maybe nine too, so I recently made a video tutorial for the Cubase YouTube channel that shows that, okay, so we see that John Costigan says, Hi, Greg. I'm still having problems with Cubase 1206 Windows 10 closing on startup. How to fix it if you start a second instance in the visible background? When I close the error window, please let me know if it is like the message which is similar to this one. um so if it's like this error message that you're getting like safe mode um let me know if it's that or if it's a different error message that you know usually if you get a message like this it can show you uh like there's a plugin that's causing problems when Cubase closes and it's kind of nice and it shows you saying hey you know there's something going on and maybe you should start without the third party plugins to instantiate that's how I used to be. in the early days it would boot and if you had a plugin that was causing the system not to boot, you know the plugin, you know there was no way around third party plugins to do it. boot for you, so you would have to do it in order to get into this loop and you would have to manually remove certain plugins, one at a time or in small groups, and try to find a culprit so you can open Cubase. to then tell you not to look at particular plugins that's why it gives you the secure boot option so let me know if you're just getting the secure boot option like we showed just a minute ago or if it's another error message and if you want to send me a screenshot screenshot by email, you know, send it to Club Cubase at steinberg.de.

I'll be happy to take a look. John Foreign Michael's team's ice cream distribution tonight, so that's cool. Well, Spencer, nice. from sent a clarification question says uh when I use third party VST instruments I find sounds like uh currently I save them as Cubase presets um I was wondering if there is a way to save all IE easy Keys sounds to Cubase presets as a dump from sysex so there's no way to do it automatically if you know if companies are using, you know when we're going to like your VST plugins here, so let's say if we come here and you're probably just saving a preset. here you can access that inside a Cubase so with this you know if there is no sysex dump so there is part of the vst3 spec that will have all those VST presets available automatically for many companies and it could be that you already know it. tuning track that makes keys easy.

I think maybe not, they might have their own pre-built system and I understand that you know companies are running different plugin formats or you know they might have their own pre-built file management structure but there isn't a way to do it, It's part of the vst3 spec, but many third-party vsts don't support it. I understand why, so they are consistent regardless. of what, um, you know the platform or the plugin host that they're dealing with, but there's no way to automatically transfer it, but you might know that maybe someone in the company knows them, you know those in particular, maybe someone knows them. have.

I already created them as presets that I could just access, but they're not like CIS to distribute. ice cream tonight that brings back some memories okay okay look pz13 pz136 just saying thanks for the tips you're welcome nice to see you oh okay my Chatfield jumped let me find where it was okay then dowski Ask a question. Hi Greg, when I quantize I want to see the midi notes moving, you know how, every time you quantize midi notes, they will move, so let's say I'll come here to like a drum editor and let's say I have 16th notes entered here, so I'll come here, so I want to take this 16th note range, so it might be that when you know let's say we quantize to 8th notes and I press Q so we see those 16th notes. they became eighth notes um now, if I wanted to apply something, let's undo that quantization and say I'm going to take all of these sixteenth notes.

Here and I want you to know, apply a group so that we have sixteenth notes and I want to apply the groove here, so let's say our swing we're going to go to 78 so we can visually see what's going to happen here, so now when I quantize, all the notes that are quantized they will move visually, so it could really depend on their quantized value, so if you say Okay, I want to do 64th notes and we're at 16th notes and you don't see a change, but if we say okay, let's do 8th note triplets , so we'll come and say Ethernet triplets now, when I do it, we can. see the change and the notes will move when you don't see quantize notes uh applied is when maybe I'm going to use the quantize plugin because this will process it in real time, so if we go to our quantizer and say okay, let's go. just make our swing really loud, said this will play with the swing and then if I go to MIDI and choose freeze midi modifiers, this will basically take the midi plugins and embed the results of the midi plugins into the tracks, we get a By freezing the midi modifiers, we can see that those midi notes will change accordingly, so check that you know that's an appropriate quantized value, so if you know how to quantize a sixteenth note, something that's eighth notes, you might not see it move visually , but you know. for anything that you know is in line with the rhythmic value of the music it should just move you should see it reflected unless it's the quantizer plugin then you would have to freeze the midi modifiers and then we'll see it reflected visually okay we see to Peter Montreal getting a gallon of Millennium crunchy ice cream, that sounds good abroad.

Mento just went to launch the boat on the lake and that's the official start of summer, so in the US we have next Memorial Day. weekend, so it's a three day weekend and that's usually our unofficial start to the summer, but that's okay, we have Gerald Ely checking in from Martinez, California, thanks for being so happy to see you, Gerald, thanks for joining us today, we have Thiago joining us from Brazil, glad you're here. can you do it Michael teams wants people to drop the like button okay foreigner just asking uh Enhancement request uh audio alignment not working as expected in many cases for choir groups uh Greg, you are an example of the project uh anyone sees quales works well, but in many In my case, it doesn't if you have multiple people who are out of time on the same track, which is often what happens in a choir

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You know, if you have three people that are on one track and there are three people singing at one time it's not going to work, it's going to work track by track, so you know what a lot of people do, if necessary, you know What kind of job are you going to have? so that everyone knows each musician on their own microphone without bleeding because if you have a

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ing track and you hear four people singing and those four people inside a single tracker at the same time, you know what it does, it takes time from one track and applies it to another track, but if within the track itself it's not in time then there's not much that can be done about it other than capturing a better performance, so let me know and I'll Generally, they're choir performances, you know, I realize that You know you capture an ensemble and you may not have everyone isolated and on an individual microphone, but you know if you have four people who are a little bit out of time in a track and four people who are a little out of time. differently on a different track, those won't line up and I don't think it'll really work at all because that single track has sync issues, so multiple tracks from isolated sources, all the alignment stuff will work fine. but you know, if it's multiple off-time sources on a single track, then it won't work that way, so we're drawn to metal like Magneto.

Hey guys, Sam from Suffolk, England joining us, thanks for joining us. Alright, so we see a question from Soren. I just bought a ur-22c and the loopback function makes it possible to get Windows system sounds, Spotify, YouTube directly into Cubase or analyze them with supervision, so I think the intention is really to bring your Daw Source to your Cubase Sound and a microphone so you can combine those two. I just turn off my phone so you can combine those two sources and send it to something like what I'm using in OBS, so I don't think it's meant to take the sound from YouTube and feed that directly into Cubase, it's meant to take the sound from Cubase plus a microphone that is connected to input one and use it for streaming or often used forfamiliar with them so I'm not sure if they are.

You know if they give you a different perspective on it, but I'm not sure. it shows you anything that's audibly usable or just yeah, maybe it allows you to perceive the music differently and that sometimes that's not a bad thing in the mix, okay, it's wonderful to see Lawrence Koch from Rhode Island, I'm glad to be able to do it. Do it today, sorry for answering your faxing questions on the last livestream. Okay, so we have Abbas checking in from Kuwait. Thank you for being part of the live stream today. I'm glad you can get it right so we see that Thiago has the vocals recorded separately for each singer in the one recording session of Mike begging, um, yeah.

I mean, if you have some files, I'd be happy to share them and see if you can tweak the algorithm, but sometimes it depends on the material obviously it's going to work with more transients, you know, if it's like many of you know, more pad like parts vocals, it may not be as effective, so Tiago says thanks for the advice of the audio and track version, it's okay. We see Gareth saying that he always recommends selling the base permanently for the entire song, but Gareth asks: Has the monitoring problem to adopt the color of the track been solved?

So let's say I'm on this track and I'm just playing some drums here and I'm going to put this back into musical mode and okay, now I'm going to put a monitor on this particular track, so let's move on to the inserts and let's go to the monitoring our parser for when we do this. will assume the track color, but I think a lot of them if we go into um, like the settings here, you could have scale or track color, so if you want to see the track color, use that as a base, so let's say that if I change the color of this clue to, you know more blue or more red, but again, once you click on the little window here, you can see that you can color according to the clue or according to the scale, so let me know if that's what you're talking about if that's so and you could be one mouse click away from happiness okay so we see maybe a misunderstood question on the edit channel that says my EQ analyzer shows a light blue alias that is the maximum value within.

The dark blue analyzer shows RMS or compression value, so I think it's just going to be RMS, but let's go ahead and take a look, so let's go here to our channel EQ, so I think if we suggest the tempo here, but when ? If you look at it, you can show uh fft pre-eq or you can just hold so this way you can show the peaks if the hole is enabled, so maybe that's what you have to activate and if you go to the EQ settings. so maybe that's what you're seeing is some kind of Spikes, so let me know if that's what you mean by that.

Well, Gareth has shared his revealing keyboard shortcut that uses L as a key command for quick link, so if anyone is looking for a quick link key command tip, that's Garrett's recommendation, it's okay, read the comments, thanks for all the great comments, okay, so we see that Martin is just asking, how is it possible to create a dimmer to control? CCS midi, so if you want to create a fader and a software, if you want to just write midi CCs to a particular track, you know one of the things you can do is if you get to the little inserts, there's some kind of control midi, so if you say okay, I just wanted to let you know that you write modulation that you could use, it's not necessarily like a fader, you could come here and use the scroll wheel on your mouse and I could write CC so it's not a fader If I really wanted to be very inclined, we could go into um, this is maybe a left-handed approach, but let's not go to that window, but to the midi device panel so you can come here and get more options and go to the midi device manager and here I could, I hope I can go in, let's create a new device, okay, so, okay, let's install the device.

We'll define a new on exactly what I wanted to come here. called MIDI General um you could uh and now we could come here open the device and then you could create um it's good for the device uh and let's add a panel so I want it to be the size of inspector uh and then we could say Ok I first I want to have this background, let's go here and okay, I'm going to go to our panel and then we're going to go to the faders, so now I want this fader and I want to create this fader. and this fader, you could have it, um, spit modulation if you want, okay, so once we've done that, you could go to another one, you know, you could load it up as a device panel and be able to, you know, come here and you could I have dimmers that do that, I mean there are millions of controllers that have dimmers.

I'm not sure if you want the faders to just transmit midi Cc or if you want software faders. I would do that, but you can do it in a device panel. Let's take a look, there might be another midi insert that you could use, so let's say if we go to um track control, here, for example, if you have an XG or GS device, it doesn't allow you to do that, so you could switch between uh . like different you know, just say Well, midi CC1 I want to stream this to um, so I'm going to, let's say, my midi monitor on this um, I have midi CC1 and if I wanted to take that cc and make it channel 12 like on cc11, let's say, let's take uh. the type is equal to the controller and then I want to take the value one of that controller and since the modulation is CC1 I want to transmit cc11.

I'm going to come here and we'll say add 10, so now when I move the mod wheel on my keyboard controller it automatically controls cc11. You can change it to any value to reach any other CC. You usually know that there are so many things in the hardware that people have that will transmit CC midi data easily, so let me know if that's helpful. Okay, okay, so we see a shortcut to re-record while tracking the guitars. Okay, so if you're not familiar with what rerecording does, this is a cool feature, so a lot of times when people are rerecording.

They're recording, so let's say I want to come here and I'm going to set a punch in and let's say a punch out. Point here and I want to do my guitar part and let's say I record something and I make a mistake. I press stop, I often press undo and then I go back and press record again, so there's a function when we go to our audio recording called uh, let's go to um, we'll come here and choose let me see, that's it. our MIDI is fine, now we have this rerecord mode, so if I wanted to now, when I'm in rerecord mode, I press record and let's say I press record again, it immediately comes back undoes that and takes care of that, so let's look at a shortcut key command to toggle re-recording mode on and off, so let's come here to edit the key command and let's go to everything okay, so I think it will be below maybe. transport oh okay I'm just going to check this nozzle and it's absolute spelling so let's record okay so let's see if we can so let's move on to the key commands again okay let's start from the top here let's see if there's a key command for This I don't know so it looks like audio recording mode so let's go ahead and maybe I set it to the command option shift a so let me see if we come let me look under the input and output so there won't be a keyboard shortcut specifically for that, but maybe it's just like a switch, yeah, there may not be a keyboard shortcut for that, but you can always um, just to see if it's if I come here, yes, so maybe you have to configure it, I'm really sorry. which I'll pass it as a keyboard shortcut that might be missing okay activate my computer so we have Roland Klein just says uh hello from Calmar Sweden thanks for joining us I see Gareth has to run thanks for joining us today I hope you have a great weekend week okay so we see Roger just asked uh hello Greg I have pasted several events to one part uh so I like to stretch uh paste the drum part to double length with the mouse and stretch the sound uh and the sound should be transposed like in tape mode, can you show it please, okay, so let's create this, okay, we'll put a track, okay, I'm going to separate these, let's get a function, so, um, so he pasted several events separated and I'm going to stretch the glued part of the drum to twice the length with the mouse.

Okay, so let's paste all of these together, okay, let me do this, it makes it an event. in a part, okay, so let's go to the part editor, okay, so it says: "I like to stretch the glue bridge to twice its length with the mouse and the sound should be reduced and transposed, let's say we hear well, like this that before you glue it and just take this all out of the music mode and then we're not going to deal with it and let's put a spacer in. Okay, thank you Okay, now we're going to glue all of these together Okay, and we'll say you want to stretch it. is.

It's playing fine, so let's go ahead and change my size mode. The size involves stretching the time, but he also wants to change the pitch, so I'm going to go to my extract window and that's fine for the audio and then I want to set. all of these for uh, let's say music mode and I want to set the algorithm here to elastic tape, okay, now let's say we take this and I'll speed it up here, we'll see if the pitch now changes, so I might have Roger, yeah I understood correctly, go to the group window and then set the algorithm here under the algorithm on a tape and then as you adjust the tempo, as it stretches, the files will slow down in pitch or speed up if it's faster.

Now let me know if that's what you're trying to do, Roger, and thank you for joining us on today's live stream. Foreign Secrets J by Secret Studios. I'm probably missing this, but is there a tool within Cubase Nuendo to rotate the balance of the bar? phase in tracks similar to the isotope phase within RX, so a lot of times, let's say if I had a particular one, I'm not sure if you're doing a phase correction against it. I'm not familiar with that particular tool, so let's say oh, play this right, so say if you would, so we can change the phase right in the project window here and let me go ahead and duplicate this track now, I'll split it into two monkeys here quickly so it's good to convert tracks.

I'm going to select the track. You know, an easy way to do this is. You only know it's fair when you're looking at the files, so I'm not sure if it's allowed gradually. You have to adjust, so let's say if I'm here and I wanted to reverse the phase or the polarity, we could do that, but you know it could be maybe more of a more graphical way to change slightly, so let's say if I wanted to change. my main timeline here for you know, let's say samples and zoom in, you know you can also, even though it's not graphical, you can just say Okay, I want to take this selected and adjust the initial position by samples and that's essentially. something like that. alter the phase so that it is the highest resolution you can work with, so you know you can do it without having to have a special plugin to do it.

Jay, let me know if it's like a plugin that has variations. phase levels instead of switching to polarity, okay, so we see that Gareth is happy to turn it off. I think the colors from the inside of the supervision, so that's the reveal of him of the day of him. John Berry says oversight has to be another candidate. for the bottom zone maybe the next update will be Charlie Brown so I like to see the monitoring in full screen and not limited to the bottom zone so I have seen a lot of people get a dedicated monitor just for monitoring.

I think it's worth. It's just to have one or two monitoring instances that show everything. It is very useful. OK. So we have a question from Val. You say what I should say about: supervision. RMS loudness meter. The din format International or simply Germany, Austria. I know there are different delivery formats for that, so let me change a different project here very often when you see some of the different configurations that they might be more inclined towards, so let's say to the supervision here, okay, like this and simply. make sure the RMS volume meter so let's come here overseas so I'm not sure if it's with so I think you know for this level let me see if this is what you know so let's see if maybe here is where I'm thinking of or if it's going to be on, make sure you have the right meter, the RMS volume meter, so we're going to be okay, so the volume is going to be on, let me go if we set it up, maybe on the Vu meter.

Let's see if this is where you end up or if it's probablylet me see, make sure it's okay, so here, if it's like on a Vu meter, you know, I usually use view dbfs, you know, a lot of the ones similar to din a, you know. uh, you know, Nordic, you know, some of these are specifically, I think, for international broadcasts, so if you're not really worried about that, I would definitely use something normal, you know, digital scale or like a Vu meter, like you know, DB complete. scale so that would give you that just because you live in Austria doesn't mean you should use din scale just because a broadcast organization within a country is using it as a particular standard so Gareth K just says one click away . of happiness you made my weekend Greg so Jazz mate I also think the monitoring is great on a separate monitor ok my Chatfield just jumped and Gareth uses the monitoring on a holographic projector just to make it special , so you can see our Fubar 2000 components in real waymock. if my page is in fan on Wiki it will be deleted correctly, so I don't know much about um, you know, I don't know much about that, um, if you want to email me some details and like, maybe a link to Club Cubase on steinberg.de I'll be happy to take a look, okay, so let's see Jay from Secret Studios.

Is it possible to use one set of control surfaces for individual tracks in the mixer and another designed separately? to be used exclusively for group bus tracks, so yes, you could definitely know that the track assignments were fixed on different control surfaces, so that's pretty common, so you can know that sometimes it's a surface layer of different control, so yes, you definitely could. You know, divide your control surface like that. Okay, read more comments. We see that the cube has taken off, so thanks for joining us today. It's wonderful to see Luca back from Dresden, Germany.

I hope you're well. You have returned? Well, we see that Michael Pierce has done well. Look, Michael Pierce is going to the instafest in London tomorrow. I wish he could be there. My friend Ray, who I've known for 31 years, actually interviewed me about continuing my job. at Steinberg a long time ago, he's the guy who runs that, so if you see Ray Williams, Tom Gregundo said hey, okay, then we see Michael Pierce, who says there's 122 likes, thank you very much everyone, the Valor just says he loves seeing views. very satisfactory, so everything is old, so I'll go to some of the.

We had a couple of questions mailed in or just clarifications from last time, so let me get to this, so one of the questions we had was do you know how? work with something like an Alberti sequel type sequence where we have, you know, an arpeggiator that acts in the low hand, like on the lower notes, and maybe you know it doesn't affect the higher notes if there's a way to do it in Cubase, so let's go ahead, check that out, so there's a way to do howling in Sonic, uh, when I started playing around with that, so let's go ahead, open up Halloween Sonic and it's part of the flexible knife. so I'll do it, then, um, what you could do is let me, then, when I play, let's say, a chord in the lower um.

I wanted the bottom notes here to automatically arpeggiate and not arpeggiate like maybe above C3 um, so let's go. Take a look at how we could do that using Holly and Sonic 7 again this is free for Cubase users so we'll go edit the program and then we'll go to the flexp here and I want to set this up and we'll just do it and I think Alberti technically like if you're holding like one three five goes one three five three five one three five three five you know, but I'm going to alternate here and there are different

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that we could use, so if I just want to come here, just say, " Okay, I want to do it right," so let's say I want to take that.

I'm just going to slow the tempo down a little bit, so I want to limit this arpeggiator to only go up to B2, so any notes above B2 once we play this and if I change it to B2, now I could play the chords here and you can see it just by looking at the keyboard and now when I hold down. a chord in my left hand so that this way you can experiment and know just the arpeggios of it at a certain point and not affect other parts so you can follow Mozart with people, okay.

Another question we had was how to activate a musical. phrase like just you know, like a midi phrase of midi notes, so let's take a look at that and I was thinking about this after watching it after doing the live stream of an approach to this and I came up with one that will probably work better . that stagger different midi plug-ins, so what we're going to do in this is we have, let's say, our Rhodes piano and I just dragged it to have this particular piano and what I did was load an instance. a Groove agent and I actually just loaded a kit and then turned the volume down, but on the pattern pads I have different phrases, so I had phrases that were dragged into, say, the Windows project. here and say I want to go to the keyboard and let's say electric piano, so I'm going to drag this particular phrase so that once I'm in my project window I can grab the project window event and drag it into a pattern panel to What I did was set up the Groove agent, turned the volume down and it just seems to work and I haven't experimented to find out if there is any workaround but I just loaded up a kit and then turned the volume down so instead of playing a drum pattern, what we could do is this patch of roads.

Now, once we've activated it, I have the Omni turned off and I choose the Groove agent as input, so I'm going to transpose. My keyboard is fine, so what I'm going to do now is play, send a midi note to the groove agent and I'm going to turn on my midi monitor here so you can see, this is going to be erased, okay? so now when I play this note, I'm going to

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both tracks to record, so I pressed C sharp, G sharp, a foreign note here that activates this external pad, all you had to do now is just press this on record um, so we'll start with G sharp one, so I'll record on both tracks, so we'll use the

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here in Groove Agent to serve as a sort of catalyst to trigger a midi phrase on the road patch. so come here, press play and the single note here triggers that phrase.

I'm going to remove it from the cycle record. I'll just repeat that pattern. I'm just going to hold down the node. You know, just keep repeating that. particular pattern thanks foreigner so now this single note inside the GrooVe agent is triggering this phrase these patterns these patterns are set up as midi inputs a Groove agent is taking the patterns as midi input and then inputting them directly into this part so I can play them all these complex parts just playing a simple note or even an electronic drum set will be able to trigger all those particular notes, so okay, let's get back to our live questions, thank you all for the wonderful questions that have been submitted.

Come on, let's take a quick look, look, Jazzy, you're talking about vu. This thing is very happy to have accurate meters when LEDs were introduced in the late 70's. Yeah ok so we'll see what the pros and cons would be of using Groove Agent versus the sample track to using One Shot 808 for lines of bass in hip-hop music, so I think one of the things that Groove Agent would be good at, you know, is that there are a lot of different Legato modes that could It would be really advantageous to um, you know, work on different slides and things what you could do on the sample track.

That's not it, so let's take a look. I think I can have a project. Share this. So once I have um, I'm going to say I have a um, I just want to drag this particular sample into my sample control, so I'm just going to drag it in and now, um, when we get there, let me put it in the right octave and let me just foreign. I'm playing this, so there's something unique about the sample track, there's some interesting things you can do with the slide, so once we put this in mono mode, we just put it in, say, single take mode, um, but we're going to put it in mono mode, um, we could just come here and do something different, so let's say we go to our tone tab, um, so if I wanted to set a Glide amount or if we wanted to do even things where we don't would fire again so it's really great for that kind of thing, but one of the things that might be, you know, a little bit easier to do, sometimes you know we could have ifos, so if we wanted to just change our tone. but I also like some of the pitch envelopes that we get in the Groove agents.

I'm going to take this and we're going to open it up in an instance of a Groove agent, so once that's in there, you know, like this in particular, let's find what key, put it, it says C3, okay, so once it's here, you'll know some of the cool things that you can do in Groove Agent is that you can have multiple samples stacked together, but if we go to launch and at this point, you can go to your envelope and just say Ok I want as soon as you post. You could just come here and say and let's say as soon as we release it.

You know, we could just say that some of the pitch envelope things could be advantageous. I think it's a little easier to do in the Groove agent considering you already know. You know you can have more than one sound, be able to have a whole set of different kits and multiple outputs, whereas if you want just a sample, that's when the sample track could really shine and I think the Legato modes are really good on the track. shows. And maybe some pitch editing and more flexibility will be found within the beat agent, so okay, we have a root screen saying it's late to the party, but we're glad you can make it if you're late. what you have to do is press the like button, okay, look, the Jazz guy just says that Agent Groove is like a sampler, he's dressed like a drum machine, so okay, look where only the costumes are from John asking if the view meters in Cubase click and bend when they collide. the stops and going crazy with the magnet, so we have to get the magnet VST plugin and put it in, so okay, so we see John Barry likes the Alberti type solution, but yeah, you could definitely use that, could you? you see?

Gerald Ely says: Hey, isn't that the court Greg uses for the instructional video, so you'll probably see a lot of the same thing? I have full tutorials, you know, where I do particular projects to show different functions so that everything is good. wonderful, wonderful to see Randy Leon, glad you could do it today. Large foreign projects say more than 50 stems and different groups at a time. So yeah, it's not that bad to do, it's pretty simple. You know, having it organized is always important. component, so we'll take a larger project here, so it's very easy to assign the tracks to different themes, but here you probably know a pretty big session, so we could have similar folders, so you say like here we see. you know, like congas, our basic parts, keyboards, piano, guitars, we have our vsd instruments, we could have group tracks, so we could go from here and then you could also come here, okay, I want to see all my drums and one of the best.

Things are we could say Ok, I really like this. I just want to see my battery. I'm going to hold down the shift key and double click and at this point I could say Ok, I want to see my battery and my bookmarks and we could save this. like visibility so go to my settings here we'll add settings and I'll say drums so now I want to see all the tracks so I come here. I want to see all the tracks in the project, or if I want to see all of them. of my just my piano and the keys I'll come here, hold down the shift key and let's add a setting, so now I can say let's go to the drums.

I'm going to go to the keys. I want to see the vocals, so anything you want just write down. By the way, you could have these different configurations so that this way you can know each of these groups. You could send each of these folders. You could send them to the groups if you want or not. They are completely independent, but this way you can see exactly what. you want and manage large projects using folders and folders nested inside other folders, so it's really easy to organize Cubase, okay, and if you want to take multiple tracks, let's say we go to our drum group here and you're going to send all of this to a group, all you have to do is select, right click and add a group channel or an effects channel to the selected tracks, which is that easy, the best cream.

Jesus just says wow the official thumbnail looks cool so that's cool it seems well received so I never want to have my photo and stuff but you know I'm glad people like it so it's cool . Sable Winter says that so many features in Cubase Pro can make a body feel pretty weak, so John CostcoHe says it's a big time saver, okay? If there are any, okay, so we have a few more questions, okay, foreign types of people, the ones that see, the ones that see when shown and the ones that don't see, that's good. I'll have to quote you on that.

Okay, we have a couple of minutes left. let's see how we're doing I think we may have run out of questions, we'll see if there are any other quick questions that sneak in thank you for all the wonderful questions and I appreciate everyone spending part of their morning, afternoon, afternoon with us, uh, learning. about Cubase um, okay, so John Costigan is going to straighten out the view meters of it, okay, we'll see if there are any others. We want to wish everyone a happy and safe weekend and everyone stay healthy so we can be back together on Tuesday, let's see the best screen Jesus.

It says that this quote is from Leonardo da Vinci. I'll give you attribution, so okay, so we'll see. I've been editing a whole playlist. I'm looking for workflow suggestions for working on D plus size stuff so I'll show you one thing you could do, for example if you have a long stem then I'll use maybe a shorter example but I think you'll be able to understand the period, so let's say this was a long recording, um, so I'm going to turn this on real quick, make sure we don't go over time, okay, so I'm going to turn on um in particular, so let's say you have like a long continuous contiguous recording.

I'm going to add just one marker track here and let's say this is song one, so I'm going to hold down and add, let's say, a loop marker and then this is song two, so let's add a loop marker here. let me get the letter P and then we'll add a three second work cycle marker song, so set cycle markers if you have a long project around each of the pieces, um and then what you can do is just come. here and if you wanted to export I'll do one of these just for the sake of time um now we have a long contiguous recording so I wanted to come here and say let's export the audio mix and I wanted to do my stems so let's do several of them like this that I want to take my audio channels and make bike markers and I'll just do one and two and we'll create new audio tracks just to share this and we'll export okay.

I change, I choose a new foreign naming scheme, so what this will do is take my first loop markers area and we can put this into new projects, but each of them will automatically be split into separate files, so we we ran out of time. I want to thank everyone for being part of the live stream. We will see everyone on Tuesday and we hope to see you back and we hope everyone has a wonderful and safe weekend. Take care and see you on Tuesday. Thank you.