Steinberg Cubase Essential 4 Operation Manual

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Deleting events in the controller display
You delete events by clicking on them with the Eraser tool 
or by selecting them and pressing [Backspace]. Please 
note:
Deleting a controller event makes the last event before 
this valid up until the next event. It does not “zero” any 
controller changes.
You can delete notes by deleting their velocity bars in 
the controller display.
Please be aware that if there is more than one note on the same position, 
there may still only be one...

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The Drum Editor – Overview
The toolbar and info line
These are much the same as the toolbar and info line in 
the Key Editor (see “The Key Editor – Overview” on page 
227), with the following differences:
The Drum Editor has no Pencil tool – instead there is a 
Drumstick tool (for entering and removing notes) and a 
Line tool with various line and curve modes (for drawing 
several notes in one go or editing controller events).
There are no Scissors and Glue Tube tools in the Drum...

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You can reorder the columns by dragging the column 
headings, and resize them by dragging the dividers be-
tween the column headings.
The note display
The note display of the Drum Editor displays notes as dia-
mond symbols. The vertical position of the notes corres-
ponds to the drum sound list to the left, while the horizontal 
position corresponds to the note’s position in time, just as in 
the Key Editor. Note however, that the diamond symbols 
don’t indicate the length of the...

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The length of the inserted note is determined by the Insert 
Length setting on the toolbar. However, if this is set to 
“Drum-Map Link”, the note will get the length of the quan-
tize value for the drum sound.
ÖYou can quickly audition the drum sounds by clicking 
in the leftmost column in the drum sound list.
This plays the corresponding note.
ÖClicking with the Drumstick tool on an existing note 
will remove it.
This makes drum pattern editing very quick and intuitive.
Setting...

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Other editing methods
As in the Key Editor, you can edit notes on the info line or 
via MIDI, and enter notes using step input, see “Editing on 
the info line” on page 235.
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...

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ÖAll settings in a drum map (except the Pitch) can be 
changed directly in the drum sound list or in the Drum 
Map Setup dialog (see “The Drum Map Setup dialog” on 
page 247).
Note that the changes you make will affect all tracks that use the drum 
map.
About Pitch, I-note and O-note
This can be a somewhat confusing area, but once you’ve 
grasped how it all works it’s not very complicated. Going 
through the following “theory” will help you make the most 
out of the drum map concept...

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The channel and output settings
You can set separate MIDI channels and/or MIDI outputs 
for each sound in a drum map. The following rules apply:
When a drum map is selected for a track, the MIDI 
channel settings in the drum map override the MIDI chan-
nel setting for the track.
In other words, the MIDI channel setting you make in the Track list or In-
spector for the track is normally disregarded. If you want a drum sound to 
use the channel of the track, set it to channel “Any” in...

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Open the Functions pop-up menu in the top left corner to 
open a list of available functionalities:
ÖDrum maps are saved with the project files. If you have 
created or modified a drum map, you should use the Save 
function to store it as a separate XML file, available for 
loading into other projects.
If you always want to have the same drum map(s) included in your projects, 
you may want to load these into the template – see “Save as Template” on 
page 305.
O-Note Conversion
This...

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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 250).
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,...