Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 Operation Manual Studio Manual

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Freeze MIDI Modifiers
The “Freeze MIDI Modifiers” function affects the following 
settings for MIDI tracks:
 Several settings on the main tab of the Inspector (program 
and bank selection and the Delay parameter).
 The settings on the MIDI Modifiers tab (i.e. Transpose, Veloc-
ity Shift, Velocity Compression and Length Compression).
 The settings on the MIDI Inserts tab (if, e. g., you are using an ar-
peggiator and want to convert the added notes to real events).
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Dissolve Part
The Dissolve Part function on the MIDI menu has two sep-
arate uses:
When you work with MIDI parts (on MIDI channel “Any”) 
containing events on different MIDI channels.
Dissolve Part separates the events according to MIDI channel.
When you want to separate MIDI events according to 
pitch.
A typical example would be drum and percussion tracks, where each 
pitch usually corresponds to a separate drum sound.
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O-Note Conversion
See “Working with drum maps” on page 359 for more in-
formation on drum maps and O-Notes.
Repeat Loop
With this function, the events inside the independent track 
loops will be repeated until the end of the part, i. e. the 
notes that were previously only played repeatedly are now 
actual notes on the MIDI track. Events to the right of the 
independent track loop (within the same part) will be re-
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Delete Notes
Allows you to delete very short or weak notes. This is use-
ful for automatically removing unwanted “ghost notes” af-
ter recording. Selecting “Delete Notes…” opens a dialog 
in which you set up the criteria for the function.
The parameters have the following functionality:
Minimum Length
When the Minimum Length checkbox is activated, the 
note length is taken into account, allowing you to remove 
short notes. You can either specify the minimum length 
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The following types of velocity processing are available:
Add/Subtract
This simply adds a fixed number to the existing velocity 
values. You set the value (positive or negative) with the 
Amount parameter.
Compress/Expand
Compresses or expands the “dynamic range” of MIDI 
notes by scaling the velocity values according to the Ratio 
setting (0 – 300%). The principle behind this is that multi-
plying different velocity values with a factor higher than 1 
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About editing MIDI
There are several ways to edit MIDI in Cubase. 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 325). 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 
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ÖIf the part you open for editing is a shared copy, any ed-
iting you perform will affect all shared copies of this part.
Shared copies are created by pressing [Alt]/[Option]+[Shift] and drag-
ging, or by using the Repeat function with the “Shared copies” option 
activated. In the Project window, shared copies are indicated by the part 
name in italics and an icon in the bottom right corner of the part.
Handling several parts
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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 466. 
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 348 
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The ruler
The ruler shows the time line, by default in the display for-
mat selected on the Transport panel. You can select a 
separate format for a MIDI editor ruler on the Ruler pop-up 
menu, opened by clicking the arrow button to the right of 
it. For a list of the available formats, see “The ruler” on 
page 34.
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...