Steinberg Cubase Ai 5 Manual

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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 189.
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 189).
Use the...

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Working with drum maps
Background
A drum kit in a MIDI instrument is most often a set of dif-
ferent 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 differ-
ent key assignments. This can be troublesome if you have 
made a drum pattern using one MIDI device, and then 
want to try it on another....

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About Pitch, I-note and O-note
This can be a somewhat confusing area, but once you 
have grasped how it all works it is not very complicated. 
Going through the following “theory” will help you make 
the most out of the drum map concept – especially if you 
want to create your own drum maps.
As mentioned earlier, a drum map is a kind of “filter”, 
transforming notes according to the settings in the map. It 
does this transformation twice; once when it receives an 
incoming note (i.e....

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It can also be useful to select different channels and/or out-
puts for different sounds. This allows you to construct drum 
kits with sounds from several different MIDI devices, etc.
Managing drum maps
Selecting a drum map for a track
To select a drum map for a MIDI track, use the Map pop-
up menu in the Inspector or in the Drum Editor.
Selecting “No Drum Map” turns off the drum map func-
tionality in the Drum Editor. Even if you do not use a drum 
map, you can still separate sounds...

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O-Note Conversion
This function on the MIDI menu goes through the selected 
MIDI part(s) and sets the actual pitch of each note accord-
ing to its O-note setting. This is useful if you want to con-
vert a track to a “regular” MIDI track (with no drum map) 
and still have the notes play back the correct drum sound. 
A typical application is if you want to export your MIDI re-
cording as a standard MIDI file (see “Exporting and impor-
ting standard MIDI files” on page 259) – by first...

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The List Editor – Overview
The toolbar
The toolbar contains several items that are the same as in 
the Key Editor (edit solo, snap, quantize settings, etc.). 
These are described earlier in this chapter. The following 
toolbar items are unique to the List Editor:
The Insert pop-up menu is used when creating new 
events.
This is where you determine what type of event to add (see “Inserting 
events” on page 207).
The Mask pop-up menu and Filter view (Show Filter 
View button) allow you...

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List Editor operations
Customizing the view
You can click and drag the divider between the list and 
the event display to make one area wider and the other 
narrower. Furthermore, the list can be customized in the 
following ways:
You can change the order of the columns by dragging 
the column headings.
You can resize columns by dragging the dividers be-
tween the column headings.
Setting the display format
Just like in the Project window, you set the display format 
(bars+beats,...

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You can edit several events at once. If several events 
are selected and you edit a value for one event, the other 
selected events’ values will be changed as well.
Normally, any initial value differences between the events will be main-
tained – i.e. the values will change by the same amount. If you press [Ctrl]/
[Command] when you edit, however, all events will get the same value.
ÖFor SysEx (system exclusive) events, you can only edit 
the position (Start) in the list.
However,...

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Masking
The Mask function is similar to the filter view but allows 
you to hide events based on other criteria as well. Pro-
ceed as follows:
1.Select an event (or several events) of the type you want 
to view.
2.Pull down the Mask pop-up menu on the toolbar and 
select one of the options.
The results are as follows:
In addition to the above options, the menu also gives you 
access to the Logical presets.
When you apply any of the Logical presets, only the 
events that meet the...

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The value display can be hidden from view by clicking the 
“Show List Value View” button on the toolbar, so that it is 
not lit.
Working with System Exclusive 
messages
SysEx (System Exclusive) messages are model-specific 
messages for setting various parameters of a MIDI device. 
This makes it possible to address device parameters that 
would not be available via normal MIDI syntax.
Every major MIDI manufacturer has its own SysEx identity 
code. SysEx messages are typically used for...