Steinberg Cubase 7 User Manual

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The MIDI editorsKey Editor operations
To view and edit existing Poly Pressure events, proceed as follows:
1.Select Poly Pressure on the “Controller Selection and Functions” pop-up menu.
2.Click on the arrow button next to the note number field to the left of the controller 
lane.
A pop-up menu appears, listing all note numbers for which there already are Poly 
Pressure events.
3.Select a note number from the pop-up menu.
The Poly Pressure events for the selected note number are shown in the...

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The MIDI editorsThe In-Place Editor
ÖIf you hold down [Shift] while clicking on any of the smart controls, you get the vertical 
scaling mode.
•To move the whole selection up/down or left/right, click on a controller event 
inside the editor and drag the curve.
By pressing [Ctrl]/[Command] when clicking and dragging, you can restrict the 
direction to horizontal or vertical movement, depending on the direction in which 
you start dragging.
ÖSnap is taken into account when moving controller curves...

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The MIDI editorsThe In-Place Editor
This expands the MIDI track to show something like a miniature Key Editor, allowing 
you to edit MIDI notes and controllers.
•To zoom or scroll the In-Place Editor, point at the left part of the piano keyboard 
display so that the pointer changes to a hand. Now you can click and drag to the 
right or left to zoom in or out vertically, and drag up or down to scroll the editor.
•Clicking on the gray triangle in the upper right corner of the track list for the edited...

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The MIDI editorsThe Drum Editor – Overview
The Drum Editor – Overview
The toolbar, status line, info line, and Inspector
These are much the same as the toolbar, status line, info line, and Inspector in the Key 
Editor (see 
“The Key Editor – Overview” on page 483), with the following differences:
•The toolbar has a Solo Instrument button that allows you to mute all sounds except 
the selected one, see 
“Muting notes and drum sounds” on page 517.
•The Drum Editor has a Drumstick tool (for entering and...

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The MIDI editorsThe Drum Editor – Overview
The following settings are available in the drum sound list:
Please note the following:
•The number of columns in the list depends on whether a drum map is selected for 
the track or not.
See “Working with drum maps” on page 518.
•You can reorder the columns by dragging the column headings, and resize them 
by dragging the dividers between the column headings.
The note display
The note display of the Drum Editor displays notes as diamond symbols. The...

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The MIDI editorsDrum Editor operations
Drum map and names pop-up menus
Below the drum sound list there are two pop-up menus, used for selecting a drum 
map for the edited track or (if no drum map is selected) a list of drum sound names. 
For an explanation of drum maps, see 
“Working with drum maps” on page 518.
Controller display
The controller display in the Drum Editor is the same as in the Key Editor, see “Using 
the controller display” on page 502.
When you select a line in the drum sound list...

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The MIDI editorsDrum Editor operations
•Clicking with the Drumstick tool on an existing note removes it. 
This makes drum pattern editing very quick and intuitive.
Selecting notes
Selecting notes is done by any of the following methods:
•Use the Object Selection tool.
The standard selection techniques apply.
•Use the Select submenu on the context menu (see “Selecting notes” on page 
494).
•Use the left and right arrow keys on the computer keyboard to step from one note 
to the next or previous note....

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The MIDI editorsWorking with drum maps
Working with drum maps 
Background
A drum kit in a MIDI instrument is most often a set of different drum sounds with each 
sound placed on a separate key (i.
 e. the different sounds are assigned to different 
MIDI note numbers). One key plays a bass drum sound, another a snare, and so on.
Unfortunately, different MIDI instruments often use different key assignments. This can 
be troublesome if you have made a drum pattern using one MIDI device, and then 
want...

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The MIDI editorsWorking with drum maps
In the following example, we have modified the drum map so that the Bass Drum 
sound has different pitch, I-note, and O-note values.
I-notes (input notes)
When you play a note on your MIDI instrument, the program looks for this note number 
among the I-notes in the drum map. If you play the note A1, the program finds that this 
is the I-note of the Bass Drum sound.
This is where the first transformation happens: the note gets a new note number 
according to the...

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The MIDI editorsWorking with drum maps
ÖTo select the same MIDI channel for all sounds in a drum map, click in the Channel 
column, press [Ctrl]/[Command] and select the desired channel. All drum sounds are 
set to this MIDI channel. The same procedure can be used for selecting the same 
MIDI output for all sounds as well.
It can also be useful to select different channels and/or outputs for different sounds. 
This allows you to construct drum kits with sounds from several different MIDI devices,...