Steinberg Cubase 5 Operation Manual

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The MIDI editors
Editing in the controller display
About controller lanes
By default, the controller display has a single lane, show-
ing one event type at a time. However, you can add lanes 
by clicking the plus button or by opening the Quick con-
text menu and selecting “Create new controller lane”. The 
use of several controller lanes allows you to view and edit 
different controllers at the same time.
The controller display with three lanes set up
To remove a lane, click on the minus sign or open...

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Controller lane presets
Once you have added the required number of controller 
lanes and selected the event types you need, you can 
store this combination as a controller lane preset. You 
could for example have a preset with one velocity lane 
only, another with a combination of velocity, pitchbend 
and modulation, and so on. This can make working with 
controllers much quicker.
To add the current controller lane setup as a preset, pull 
down the pop-up menu to the left of the...

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ÖIf there is more than one note at the same position 
(e.g. a chord), their velocity bars will overlap in the control-
ler lane. 
If none of the notes are selected, all notes at the same position will be set 
to the same velocity value when you draw. To edit the velocity of only one 
of the notes at the same position, first select the note in the note display. 
Now, editing will only affect the velocity of the selected note.
You can also adjust the velocity of a single note by...

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In Parabola mode, you can use modifier keys to deter-
mine the shape of the parabola curve.
If you press [Ctrl]/[Command], the parabola curve will be reversed. If you 
press [Alt]/[Option]-[Ctrl]/[Command] while Snap is activated, you can 
change the position of the whole curve (in both cases the snap value for 
the positioning will be a quarter of the quantize value). If you press [Shift], 
the exponent will be increased or decreased.
ÖIn Line and Parabola modes, the length quantize...

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Deleting events in the controller display
You delete events by clicking on them with the Eraser tool 
or by selecting them and pressing [Backspace]. Please 
note:
Deleting a controller event makes the last event before 
this valid up until the next event. It does not “zero” any 
controller changes.
You can delete notes by deleting their velocity bars in 
the controller display.
Please be aware that if there is more than one note on the same position, 
there may still only be one...

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To add a new Poly Pressure event, proceed as follows:
1.Select Poly Pressure on the event type pop-up menu.
2.Set the note number by clicking on the keyboard dis-
play.
The selected note number is displayed in the upper value field to the left 
of the controller display. Note that this only works for the topmost lane. If 
you have selected “Poly Pressure” for several controller lanes, you have 
to type in the desired note number directly in the lower value field to the 
left of each...

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Clicking on the little gray triangle in the upper right cor-
ner of the Track list for the edited track brings up a local 
toolbar with some settings specific to the In-Place Editor.
For descriptions of these settings, see “The toolbar” on page 340.
Just like in the Key Editor, you can edit velocity or con-
tinuous controllers at the bottom of the In-Place Editor.
To change which controller type is shown, click in the controller name field 
directly below the piano keyboard and...

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The Drum Editor – Overview
The toolbar and info line
These are much the same as the toolbar and info line in 
the Key Editor (see “The Key Editor – Overview” on page 
340), with the following differences:
The Drum Editor has no Pencil tool – instead there is a 
Drumstick tool (for entering and removing notes) and a 
Line tool with various line and curve modes (for drawing 
several notes in one go or editing controller events).
There are no Scissors and Glue Tube tools in the Drum...

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The note display
The note display of the Drum Editor displays notes as dia-
mond symbols. The vertical position of the notes corres-
ponds to the drum sound list to the left, while the horizontal 
position corresponds to the note’s position in time, just as in 
the Key Editor. Note, however, that the diamond symbols do 
not indicate the length of the notes. This makes sense, 
since drum sounds most often are “one-shot” samples that 
play to their end regardless of the note lengths....

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Setting velocity values
The notes you enter will get the insert velocity value set in 
the insert velocity field on the toolbar – to speed up things 
you may want to assign key commands to the insert velo-
city options. See “Setting velocity values” on page 345.
Selecting notes
Selecting notes is done by any of the following methods:
Use the Arrow tool.
The standard selection techniques apply.
Use the Select submenu on the context menu (see 
“Selecting notes” on page 346).
Use the...