Steinberg Cubase 6 Manual

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The independent track loop
The independent track loop is a sort of “mini-cycle”, affect-
ing only the MIDI part being edited. When the loop is acti-
vated, the MIDI events within the loop will be repeated 
continuously and completely independent – other events 
(on other tracks) will be played back as usual. The only “in
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teraction” between the loop and the “regular playback” is 
that every time the cycle starts over again, so does the loop.
To set up the independent track loop,...

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Coloring notes and events
By using the Event Colors pop-up menu on the toolbar, 
you can select a color scheme for the events in the editor. 
The following options are available:
For all of the options except “Part” the pop-up menu also 
contains a “Setup…” option. This option opens a dialog in 
which you can specify the colors that are associated with 
which velocities, pitches, or channels, respectively.
Creating and editing notes
To draw in new notes in the Key Editor, use the...

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ÖTo determine another mode for the Line tool you can 
click on the Line tool and click again to open a pop-up 
menu where you can select the desired option.
The button will change appearance according to the se-
lected mode.
Setting velocity values
When you draw notes in the Key Editor, the notes will get 
the velocity value set in the Insert Velocity field on the tool
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bar.
You can use different methods to set the velocity:
•When a tool modifier is assigned for the Select tool–...

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•To step from one note to another, use the left and right 
arrow keys on the computer keyboard.
If you press [Shift] and use the arrow keys, the current selection will be 
kept, allowing you to select several notes.
•To select all notes of a certain pitch, press [Ctrl]/[Com-
mand] and click on the desired key in the keyboard display 
to the left.
•To select all the following notes of the same pitch, you 
can press [Shift] and double-click on a note. 
ÖIf the “Auto Select Events under...

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ÖWhen you move selected notes to a different position, 
any selected controllers for these notes will move accord
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ingly. For further information, see also “Moving events” on 
page 392.
ÖYou can also adjust the position of notes by quantizing 
(see 
“Quantizing MIDI and audio” on page 108).
Duplicating and repeating notes
Notes are duplicated much in the same way as events in 
the Project window:
•Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the note(s) to a new 
position.
If Snap is...

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Splitting notes
There are three ways to split notes:
•Clicking on a note with the Scissors tool splits the note 
at the position you pointed (taking the Snap setting into 
account if activated).
If several notes are selected, they are all split at the same position.
•If you select “Split at Cursor” from the Functions sub-
menu on the Edit menu, all notes that are intersected by 
the project cursor are split at the cursor position.
•If you select “Split Loop” from the Functions...

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How the Key Editor handles drum maps
When a drum map is assigned to a MIDI or instrument 
track (see 
“Working with drum maps” on page 400), the 
Key Editor will display the drum sound names as defined 
by the drum map. 
In Cubase, the name of the drum sound is displayed in the 
following locations:
This allows you to use the Key Editor for drum editing, e. g. 
when editing drum note lengths (which may be necessary 
for some external instruments) or when editing several 
parts, to...

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3.Use the note buttons on the toolbar to decide which 
properties are changed by the MIDI input.
You can enable editing of pitch, note-on and/or note-off velocity.
With this setting, the edited notes will get the pitch and velocity values 
of the notes input via MIDI, but the note-off velocities will be kept as 
they are.
4.Play a note on your MIDI instrument.
The note selected in the editor will get the pitch, velocity and/or note-off 
velocity of the played note.
The next note in...

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Each MIDI track has its own controller lane setup (number 
of lanes and selected event types). When you create new 
tracks, they get the controller lane setup used last.
The controller display with three lanes
•To add a lane, click the “+” button or open the “Control-
ler Selection and Functions” pop-up menu and select 
“Create Controller Lane”.
•To remove a lane, open the “Controller Selection and 
Functions” pop-up menu and select “Remove this Lane”.
This hides the lane from view –...

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3.Click OK.
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. For ex
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ample, you can 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 con
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trollers much quicker.
Controller lane presets are organized via the “Controller 
Lane Setup” pop-up menu.
The...