Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual
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Note Expression
Editing Note Expression data
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Moving Note Expression data
• To move all or the selected data of the active parameter, click with the Object
Selection tool in the editor (not in the stretch area at the bottom of the
window) and drag.
You can restrict the direction to vertical or horizontal by pressing
[Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging. When you hold down [Alt]/[Option] while
dragging, the data is copied instead.
Fixed values
• To enter or edit a fixed value (i. e. a straight line),...](http://img.usermanuals.tech/thumb/86/98229/w64_d_1507296127-steinberg-cubase-8-manual_d-804.png "Page 805
Note Expression
Editing Note Expression data
805
Moving Note Expression data
• To move all or the selected data of the active parameter, click with the Object
Selection tool in the editor (not in the stretch area at the bottom of the
window) and drag.
You can restrict the direction to vertical or horizontal by pressing
[Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging. When you hold down [Alt]/[Option] while
dragging, the data is copied instead.
Fixed values
• To enter or edit a fixed value (i. e. a straight line),...")
Note Expression Recording 801 When you now start overdubbing, the values for all these controls are attached to the notes that are passed during overdub recording, replacing any existing controller data of the same type. 1) Reset Latch Buffer 2) Click here to activate Latch mode RELATED LINKS Mapping controllers on page 797 Resetting the Latch buffer Whenever data is present in the Latch buffer, the “Reset Latch buffer” button becomes available. If you click this button, all the memorized values are removed from the Latch buffer. NOTE When you are using Latch mode in combination with cycle recording, the Latch Buffer is automatically reset at the end of the cycle. Recording Note Expression data via MIDI input An alternative way to enter Note Expression data for existing notes is using Note Expression MIDI input. When you activate the “MIDI Input” and “Note Expression MIDI Input” buttons on the Key Editor toolbar, you can replace the controllers for the selected note. • To record Note Expression data via MIDI input, select a note and move the active control on your MIDI device. The note is played in real time and any manipulation of the controls, i. e. all incoming controller data, is recorded for this note. Recording stops when the end of the note or the end of the release phase is reached, or when you deselect the note. RELATED LINKS Editing the release phase of a note on page 807
Note Expression Editing Note Expression data 802 Recording the sustain pedal When the sustain pedal (MIDI CC 64) of the connected MIDI device is held during recording, the following applies for VST 3 parameters (not for continuous MIDI controllers): • When a note-off event is received (when the key on the connected keyboard is released), this message is not sent to the VST 3 instrument but is instead created by the program when the sustain pedal is released. This makes it possible for the VST 3 instrument to play back controllers that are sent after a key was released. • The release phase of the recorded notes ends when the sustain pedal is released. Editing Note Expression data In the Key Editor, you can view and edit the Note Expression data for notes in the Note Expression editor. This is opened by double-clicking a note in the event display. In the editor, you can add Note Expression data from scratch. All parameters that are marked as visible in the Inspector are displayed as curves in the editor. NOTE When several notes are selected in the Key Editor and you double-click any of them, the Note Expression editor opens for all these notes. This is useful if you want to edit all notes in a chord in the same way, for example. • To adjust the editor size, click and drag the Resize handle (in the center of the lower border of the editor). This allows you to switch between three different window sizes. • To navigate from note to note while the editor is open, use the left and right arrow keys. You can also use the key commands [Tab] and [Shift]-[Tab] to step through the notes.
Note Expression Editing Note Expression data 803 To make settings in the editor, first select the parameter that you want to make settings for. How to do this depends on whether you want to modify existing data or enter new data from scratch: • If you want to enter new data from scratch, i. e. create events for a parameter that has not been used yet, you have to select this parameter in the Inspector to make it available in the editor. • If you want to edit existing data, you specify which parameter to edit in one of the following ways: by clicking on the curve, by selecting the corresponding controller on the Parameter pop-up menu, or by selecting the parameter on the Note Expression Inspector tab. The parameter pop-up menu in the lower left corner of the editor lists all parameters that are used for the edited note. If the editor size is big enough, the name of the edited parameter is displayed to the right of the pop-up menu. • You can close the editor by clicking outside of it in the event display. You can also specify a key command for opening and closing the Note Expression editor. The value display The value display in the lower right corner of the editor shows the current value at the (vertical) mouse pointer position. The value range differs depending on the parameter type, e. g. 0 to 127 for MIDI controllers or semitones and cents for Tuning. Selection ranges You can select a range of controller values by clicking and dragging in the editor with the Object Selection tool. • If you hold down [Shift] and drag, any previous selection will be kept. • You can move selections by dragging them in the editor. • To copy a selection in the editor, click on it, keep the mouse button pressed, then press [Alt]/[Option] and drag. Editing functions Drawing in data You can enter or modify curves using the Draw tool or the line tool. The editing is the same as in the controller lanes. If the Object Selection tool is selected and the editor is open, you can press [Alt]/[Option] to get the Draw tool.
Note Expression Editing Note Expression data 804 RELATED LINKS Adding Events in the Controller Display on page 718 Editing Events in the Controller Display on page 718 Using Cut, Copy, and Paste • To cut, copy, and paste Note Expression data for a single parameter in the editor, use the corresponding commands on the Edit menu. It is also possible to copy and paste data between different parameters. NOTE Pasting Note Expression data in the editor is restricted to the note (or notes, if they are located at the same time position) for which the editor is open. However, you can copy all Note Expression data from one note to another using a key command. • To paste all the Note Expression data from one note to other notes, set up the key command “Paste Note Expression” in the Key commands dialog (Note Expression category). This pastes all the Note Expression information of one or several notes for which you have used the Copy command into the currently selected notes. Using the “Paste Note Expression” command, you can copy the settings you made for one note into several other notes, or copy the settings for several selected notes into a number of other notes (which makes it easy to recreate specific drum patterns, for example). If Note Expression data is copied from several source notes to a number of destination notes, the following applies: • If the number of the source and destination notes matches, the data of the first “source” note is pasted into the first “destination” note, the data of the second source note into the second destination note, etc. • If the number of source notes is smaller than the number of destination notes, the source note data will be pasted repeatedly into the destination notes in the order in which they appear. When you copy the data from two source notes into four destination notes, for example, the first destination note gets the Note Expression data from the first source note, the second destination note the data of the second source note, the third destination note the data of the first source note and the fourth destination note the data of the second source note. Deleting Note Expression data To delete all or the selected Note Expression data, use the Delete command on the Edit menu or press [Backspace].
Note Expression Editing Note Expression data 805 Moving Note Expression data • To move all or the selected data of the active parameter, click with the Object Selection tool in the editor (not in the stretch area at the bottom of the window) and drag. You can restrict the direction to vertical or horizontal by pressing [Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging. When you hold down [Alt]/[Option] while dragging, the data is copied instead. Fixed values • To enter or edit a fixed value (i. e. a straight line), activate “One-Shot Mode” mode by clicking the button in the upper left corner of the window and click with the Draw tool anywhere in the editor to set the value. Note that some VST 3 parameters are one-shot only. For these, this mode is automatically activated. The snap controls The horizontal snap button in the upper right corner of the editor corresponds to the Snap button in the Project window. 1) Vertical snap (best suited for the Tuning parameter) 2) Horizontal Snap The Vertical Snap button in the middle of the left border of the editor is especially useful for the Tuning parameter. It allows you to enter the pitch in semitone steps instead of as a continuous curve. This way, it is much easier to create fast pitch modulations. • To temporarily switch to vertical snapping while editing, hold down [Shift]. RELATED LINKS Snap Function on page 62
Note Expression Editing Note Expression data 806 Modifying the data using the smart controls The editor offers various modes for editing the Note Expression data. Most editing modes are activated by clicking the various smart controls, situated on the editor frame. 1) Smart controls Which editing is performed is reflected by the shape of the mouse pointer. The following modes are available: Editing mode To activate this mode… Description Move Vertically Click in an empty area on the upper border of the editor.This mode allows you to move the entire curve up or down, which is useful to boost or attenuate a curve. Scale Vertically Click the smart control in the middle of the upper border of the editor.Use this mode to relatively scale the curve, i. e. to raise or lower the values in percent (not by absolute amounts). Tilt the left/right part of the curveClick the smart control in the upper left/right corner of the editor.These modes allow you to tilt the left or the right part of the curve, respectively. This is useful if the curve form is exactly the way you want it, but the start or end needs to be boosted or attenuated a bit. Compress the left/right part of the curve[Alt]/[Option]-click the smart control in the upper left/right corner of the editor.These modes allow you to compress the left or the right part of the curve. You can create a vibrato using the line tool in sinus mode, for example, and then compress its start and end to get a more natural effect.
Note Expression Editing Note Expression data 807 Editing the release phase of a note Sometimes it can be necessary to edit the release phase of a note, e. g. to work on the tail of a note which is still sounding after the note-off message was sent. These settings are made in the release section of the editor. To add a release phase, click and drag the release length handle in the lower right corner of the editor. 1) Note 2) Release phase 3) Release length handle When Note Expression data are displayed in the Key Editor, the release phase of a note is also shown. Scale Around Absolute CenterClick the smart control in the middle of the right border of the editor.This mode allows you to scale the curve around the absolute center, i. e. horizontally around the center of the editor. This is useful for parameters which contain a center value or position, such as Pitchbend or panorama. Scale Around Relative Center[Alt]/[Option]-click the smart control in the middle of the right border of the editor.This mode allows you to scale the curve relative to its center. This can be used to boost or reduce vibrato, for example. Stretch Click and drag in the lower part of the editor.This allows you to stretch all or the selected Note Expression data.You can apply the stretching to all visible curves at the same time by keeping [Shift] pressed while dragging. Editing mode To activate this mode… Description
Note Expression Note Expression and MIDI 808 Setting the length of the release phase To determine the length of the release phase, drag the release length handle or enter the value manually on the info line. You can also modify the release length after having edited or recorded controller data. Only the controllers within the specified length will be heard during playback. NOTE When you have opened the editor for several notes and hold down [Alt]/[Option] while setting the release length for one note, the release phase of all the notes will be changed accordingly, i. e. they will all end at the same time position. Adding controllers in the release phase You can add controllers in the release phase by overdubbing or by manually entering Note Expression data in the editor. When you are overdubbing Note Expression data, the length of the existing release phase will be used to associate newly recorded data to the notes. When the sustain pedal of your external device is held during recording, the notes automatically get a corresponding release phase. Editing multiple notes simultaneously When you have opened the editor for several notes, any editing (e. g. entering Note Expression data, applying time stretch or modifying the length of the release phase) affects all the notes that are present at the time position where you perform the editing. Note Expression and MIDI Making global settings In the Note Expression MIDI Setup dialog, you can make some global settings for the use of the Note Expression functionality with MIDI. In this dialog, you can specify exactly which MIDI controllers will be used when recording Note Expression data, for example. PROCEDURE 1. On the MIDI menu, open the Note Expression submenu and select “Note Expression MIDI Setup…”. The Note Expression MIDI Setup dialog opens. 2. When you have made the desired settings, click OK to close the dialog. The settings you made in the Note Expression MIDI Setup dialog will be used every time that you use the “Convert to Note Expression” function or record MIDI controllers as Note Expression data.
Note Expression Note Expression and MIDI 809 Note Expression MIDI Setup Dialog The dialog contains the following options: Controller Activate this option if you want to use MIDI controllers when working with Note Expression. In the table below, activate the MIDI controllers you want to use and deactivate the MIDI controllers that should be disregarded in the Note Expression context. If MIDI controller data for a deactivated controller is received in Cubase, it will end up on the controller lane. Pitchbend Activate this option if you want incoming Pitchbend data to be used when working with Note Expression. Aftertouch Activate this option if you want incoming Aftertouch data to be used when working with Note Expression.
Note Expression Note Expression and MIDI 810 Poly Pressure Activate this option if you want Poly Pressure data to be used when working with Note Expression. Controller Catch Range This allows you to associate controllers with a note, although they were sent slightly before the note-on message. Specify the number of ticks in the value field. For example, this might be necessary when working with some electronic drums for which the drum head position message is sent before the note. Recording MIDI controllers as Note Expression data To record Note Expression data using standard MIDI controller messages, activate the “MIDI as Note Expression” button on the Note Expression Inspector tab and enter the notes and controllers using your MIDI device. Afterwards, you can copy, paste and move the notes and the associated controller data will follow. However, you should not shift individual notes from a chord, because this leads to conflicting controller messages. One way to avoid such conflicts is to record MIDI controllers as Note Expression data for monophonic performances only. Another option is to use a MIDI track set to “Any” channel and to split polyphony to separate channels. This is useful when working with guitar-to-MIDI controllers, where each string sends on a separate MIDI channel. NOTE When recording MIDI controllers as Note Expression data, keep in mind that this only works within the limits of standard MIDI controllers. With the exception of Poly Pressure, all MIDI controllers are channel-specific messages and therefore not available for notes. IMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANT When you are editing the MIDI notes after recording them, it might be necessary to consolidate the controller data. Converting MIDI Controllers into Note Expression data You can also convert the MIDI controller data on the controller lanes into Note Expression data. PROCEDURE 1. Open the MIDI part in the Key Editor. 2. Make sure that the MIDI controllers to be recorded are activated in the “Note Expression MIDI Setup” dialog.