Steinberg Cubase Le 4 Manual

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When you record several MIDI channels at the same 
time.
You may for example have a MIDI keyboard with several keyboard zones, 
where each zone sends MIDI on a separate channel. Recording on an 
“Any” channel track allows you to play back the recording with different 
sounds for each zone (since the different MIDI notes play back on sepa-
rate MIDI channels).
When you have imported a MIDI file of Type 0.
MIDI files of Type 0 contain only one track, with notes on up to...

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You can specify the desired gap or overlap with the “Legato 
Overlap” setting in the Preferences (Editing–MIDI page).
When using Legato with this setting, each note will be extended to end 
5 ticks before the next note.
When you activate the “Legato Mode: Selected Only” op-
tion, the length of the note will be adjusted so that it 
reaches the next selected note, allowing you e.g. to only 
apply Legato to your bass line (when playing on a key-
board).
Fixed Lengths
This...

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Remove when under
This setting is only available when both Minimum Length 
and Minimum Velocity is activated. By clicking the value 
display, you select whether both length and velocity crite-
ria must be met for notes to be deleted, or whether one of 
the criteria will suffice.
OK and Cancel
Clicking OK performs the automatic delete according to 
the rules set up. Clicking Cancel closes the dialog without 
deleting notes.
Restrict Polyphony
Selecting this item opens a...

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Fixed Velocity
This function sets the velocity of all selected notes to the 
Insert Velocity value on the toolbar in the MIDI editors.
Thin Out Data
Thins out MIDI data. Use this to ease the load on your ex-
ternal MIDI devices if you have recorded very dense con-
troller curves etc. 
You can also manually thin out the controller data by using 
the quantize function in the Key Editor.
Extract MIDI Automation
This option allows you to automatically convert continuous...

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About editing MIDI
There are several ways to edit MIDI in Cubase LE. You 
can use the tools and functions in the Project window for 
large-scale editing, or use the functions on the MIDI menu 
to process MIDI parts in various ways (see “What is affec-
ted by the MIDI functions?” on page 155). For hands-on 
graphical editing of the contents of MIDI parts, you use the 
MIDI editors:
The Key Editor is the default MIDI editor, presenting 
notes graphically in an intuitive piano...

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Handling several parts
When you open a MIDI editor with several parts (or a MIDI 
track containing several parts) selected, you might find it 
somewhat hard to get an overview of the different parts 
when editing.
For such cases the editor toolbar features a few functions 
to make working with multiple parts easier and more com-
prehensive:
The Part List menu lists all parts that were selected 
when you opened the editor (or all parts on the track, if no 
parts were selected), and...

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The Key Editor – Overview 
The toolbar
As in other windows, the toolbar contains tools and vari-
ous settings. You can specify which toolbar items should 
be shown and store/recall different toolbar configurations 
– see “The Setup dialogs” on page 244. 
The info line
The info line shows information about selected MIDI 
notes. You can edit all values on the info line using regular 
value editing (see “Editing on the info line” on page 176 
for details). Length and position values are...

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At the bottom of the pop-up menu, there are two addi-
tional items:
If “Time Linear” is selected, the ruler, note display and 
controller display will be linear in relation to time.
This means that if the ruler shows bars and beats, the distance between 
the bar lines will vary depending on the tempo.
If “Bars+Beats Linear” is selected, the ruler, note display 
and controller display will be linear in relation to tempo.
This means that if the ruler shows bars and beats, the distance...

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Velocity values are shown as vertical bars in the controller 
display, with higher bars corresponding to higher velocity 
values:
Each velocity bar corresponds to a note in the note display.
Events in the controller display (that is, anything other than 
velocity values) are shown as “blocks”, the heights of which 
correspond to the “values” of the events. However, events 
that have been recorded (or drawn with a low quantize 
value) may appear more like “filled curves”, simply...