Steinberg Cubase 6 Manual

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Other MIDI functions
The following items can be found on the Functions sub-
menu of the MIDI menu:
Legato
Extends each selected note so that it reaches the next 
note.
You can specify a gap or overlap for this function with the 
“Legato Overlap” setting in the Preferences dialog (Edit
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ing–MIDI page).
When using Legato with this setting, each note will be extended to end 
5 ticks before the next note.
When you activate “Legato Mode: Between Selected 
Notes Only”, the length of the...

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•The graphical length display can correspond to 1/4 bar, 
one bar, two bars or four bars.
You change this setting by clicking in the field to the right of the display.
In this case, the whole length display corresponds to two bars, and the 
Minimum Length is set to 32nd notes (60 ticks).
Minimum Velocity
When the Minimum Velocity checkbox is activated, the ve-
locity of notes is taken into account, allowing you to re-
move weak notes. You specify the minimum velocity (for 
notes to be...

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•To expand (create greater difference in velocity), use ra-
tio values above 100 %.
Before you expand, you may want to adjust the velocity with the Add/
Subtract function, so that the average velocity is somewhere in the mid
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dle of the range. If the average velocity is high (near 127) or low (near 0), 
expansion will not work properly, simply because velocity values can only 
be between 0 and 127!
Limit
This function allows you to make sure that no velocity val-
ues fall outside a...

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Introduction
There are several ways to edit MIDI in Cubase. You can use 
the tools and functions in the Project window for large-
scale editing, or the functions on the MIDI menu to process 
MIDI parts in various ways (see 
“What is affected by the 
MIDI functions?” on page 367). For hands-on graphical ed-
iting of the contents of MIDI parts, you use the MIDI editors:
•The Key Editor is the default MIDI editor, presenting 
notes graphically in an intuitive piano roll-style grid.
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Handling several parts
When you open a MIDI editor with several parts (or a MIDI 
track containing several parts) selected, the editor con
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tains a few functions that make working with multiple parts 
easier and more comprehensive:
•The “Currently Edited Part” pop-up menu on the toolbar 
lists all parts that are opened in the editor (or all parts on the 
track if no parts were selected). Here you can select which 
part is active for editing.
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The Key Editor – Overview  
The toolbar
The toolbar contains tools and various settings for the Key 
Editor. The following toolbar elements are available:
ÖYou can show/hide most of the toolbar elements by 
activating/deactivating the corresponding options on the 
context menu. Furthermore, you can store/recall different 
toolbar configurations, see 
“Using the Setup options” on 
page 534.
Toolbar
Info line
Inspector
Controller 
display
Ruler
Status line
Note 
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The status line
The status line is displayed below the toolbar in the Key 
Editor.
It displays the following information:
•To show or hide the status line, click the “Set up Win-
dow Layout” button on the toolbar and activate or deacti-
vate the “Status Line” option.
The info line
The info line shows information about the selected MIDI 
note. If several notes are selected, the values for the first 
note are displayed (in color). You can edit all values on the 
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The Transpose section
The Transpose section allows you to access the main pa-
rameters for transposing MIDI events. These can also be 
found in the Transpose dialog, see 
“Transpose” on page 
367.
The Length section
The Length section contains the length-related options 
from the Functions submenu of the MIDI menu (see 
“Other 
MIDI functions” on page 371) as well as a Length/Legato 
slider.
•Use the “Scale Length/Legato” slider to change the 
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For a description of editing in the controller display, see 
“Using the controller display” on page 388.
Key Editor operations
Zooming
Zooming in the Key Editor is done according to the stan-
dard zoom procedures, using the zoom sliders, the Zoom 
tool or the Zoom submenu of the Edit menu.
•When you drag a rectangle with the Zoom tool, the result 
depends on the “Zoom Tool Standard Mode: Horizontal 
Zooming Only” option in the Preferences dialog (Editing–
Tools page).
If this is...