Common MIDI Editor Functions V1 in Cubase

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Common MIDI Editor Functions V1 in Cubase

hello everybody Andrew Blake from thedigitalaudiomanual.com today let's beginlooking at some of the common midieditor functions in Cubase but before westart I want to remind you that there'sa link below to the free contentnavigation guide which is an easy tonavigate webpage with links to all thecontent on this channel and besides thatin the near future I'm going to beginadding tips and other bits ofinformation that will only be availablethere you know things like simple stepsthat will get you started and up andrunning quick things that are in thevideos but are written down in simplesteps that serve as quick reminders whenyou need information down the road ifyou're working with programs like wavelab or Cubase plugins or the cable guysshaper Box 2 and many many otherprojects that are in the works then Iknow you're going to find just like Ihave that this is an invaluable studyAid and the other thing I want to makesure you understand is that this is nota simple PDF this is a constantlyupdated page that has any informationthat is new or anytime videos arechanged really anything updated and onceyou have it you will always have thelatest information constantly updated soif you haven't gotten it already go tothe link below click on it and save itto your favorites it's my gift to youand it's absolutely free Okay so let'sget started so the option of thedifferent midi functions in Cubase hasalways been one of its strongest pointsas a program I think if you go back andlook at the early history of thedevelopment of Cubase you will find thatit was kind of built on really strongmidi interface options and that's justalways been one of the foundations ofthe program when you're dealing withmidi for example if I look at my littlepiano part down here that I havehighlighted there's various ways toapproach and getting into editing themidi one of the first ways you want tobe aware of is up here on the midi menuitself when you click on that you get awhole list of various options to look atand at the top of this list you havethese various editors and this is whatwe're going to focus in on in the nextfew videos examining these but forexample the top of the list you haveopen the key editor if we click on thatyou get the main interface that Cubaseuses when you want to edit midi this isthe key editor has various menus overhere on the left but it lets you see themidi parts and you can start drawingthem in or changing them or doing anynumber of things to them next on thatlist you have the option to open TheScore editor which actually opens upyour midi part with a written score andCubase has a long list of options ofthings you can do with the score itselfthe next option it shows you here is toopen the drum editor and we've looked indepth at the drum editor already thosevideos are in the navigation guide belowthen you have this thing called the listeditor and this plays your parts andgives you information in depth on theactual midi notes you have one of theselatest editions this in place editorwhich actually opens up in the projectitself and allows you to see and zoom inright there while you're working in theproject and many of these editors have alot of different things in common interms of how you approach the midi notesthemselves and we want to begin bylooking at some of those for example ifI open this up in the key editor and Ican do that just by double clicking onthe part itself one of the first thingsto look at is up on top you have a rulerjust like you do in the project andtypically that's set to reflect exactlylike it is in the project you can rightclick on that ruler and you have allkinds of options to change it to samplesor time code or any number of thingsthat you may be called on in differentsituationsso you have quite a few options when itcomes to zooming in and out on thisstuff if you go up to your edit and comedown you actually have a zoom option andmost of the standard zooming that youhave in the project or anything elseapplies in here as well and for everycommand it also shows the shortcuts overhere so if you haven't changed any ofthose but real quickly of zooming aroundI have found is use this Zoom tool whenyou right click on the toolbar and whenyou click and drag over what you want tozoom to then you're right there to zoominto it and if you again haven't changedthe shortcuts the alt and Z key zoomsyou right back out again then you canzoom into another areaand I'll Z back out and it's very easyto just get around and zoom in and outas you need one thing you'll notice theway this is set up it zooms inhorizontally and vertically and Iactually like that but you do have anoption if you go up to edit down to yourpreferences and look under editing andtools there's an option if you check itzoom's horizontal only and hit applyokay and then when you zoom in it butonly zoom in horizontally but I like itto go this way that's my preference ifwe go back to the project window for aminute we have a couple of options whenit comes to copy and pasting midiinformation if I select my range tooland I select a buyer's worth ofinformation here and I hit Ctrl C tocopy it and then I have to actually makeanother range if I want to paste itsomewhere and if I hit Ctrl V and pasteit it puts those midi notes on top ofthe other midi notes but you have thisother option that if you go up to editand go down to the range option and thenlook for the one that says paste time ifI select that it actually splits midievents puts the original midi event overand then paste the information rightthere in that spot most the time in themidi editors you have the option tochange the color of these midi notesdepending on what kind of editing you'redoing there's a drop down list up hereand it stands for the event colors andevery choice I make out of here say I goto the velocity option it changes colorsif I go to the part it changes colorsand down the list and you can experimentwith all these to see what colors theychange to for most of these you will seeat the bottom an option for setup if youclick on setup you can then change yourcolors if I want to change this red thatit's typically changing to I can simplyjust click on it and then pick adifferent color and say okay a few ofthese don't give you the option tochange colors the sound slot one and thepart one all of those are grayed outwhen it comes to the setup option thenext thing I'm going to mention youdefinitely want to pay very closeattention to and make a mental note thatwe are talking about this I would haveto say if there's one thing that justkeeps coming up over and over whenyou're working on editing your midinotes it's going to be this option ofhow to select various notes and whenyou're in the middle of doing yourediting you're really going to Hope andwish that you remembered what I'm goingto tell you now if you don't alreadyknow itnumber one when you select an eventwhether you click on it or just draw arectangle around it you can then useyour arrows on your typing keyboard tomove from one note to the other orbackwards as well using your typingkeyboard if you hold shift and hit yourright arrow then it will select multipleevents or unselect them then go in theother direction and it will select thosemultiple events and now the big one Iguarantee will come up for you at somepoint whether it's having 90 littlehi-hat hits or something of that natureanytime you want to select all the notesof a certain pitch say I've got thesethree notes right here if I go over andhold Ctrl and then hit that key on thiskeyboard on the left it will then selectall the notes of that pitch a similarkey selection of the same approach is ifyou hold shift and then double click anote from that note on to the right allthe other notes of the same pitch areselected those few moves if you havethem under your belt you will findyourself coming back over and over againto a less frustrated place whenevernotes are selected in this key editorthey turn black and only the outlineretains the colorand then next up if you haven't everlooked at this you're going to want totake a look at this edit down to the submenu that says select and browse throughsome of these options they put a just agood amount of options in here to solvea lot of particular problems and againyou get shortcut keys that have they'vealready been assigned to these you canuse them and of course you can alwaysassign shortcut keys to these throughyour preferences and your key commandsand you also notice that sometimes inthis edit select you'll see a lot ofoptions that are black that can be usedand you'll see quite a few that are graythat you can't use this one menu kind ofencompasses both midi and audio andrange and events and things of differentnature so if it applies to your midiselections here you'll see it in blackbut if it applies to some other kind ofevent or audio part you may see it asgrayed out but let's go through a few ofthese just in case there's any confusionfirst up you have the all or control allwhich is that's typical you can see it'sa selected every single little eventhere next to that you have select nonewhich is shortcut key control shift a soif there's something selected itunselects everything these next ones arereally nice kind of unusual options forexample if I select these two notes andthen I go to this next option that saysinvert it unselects those two andselects everything else but those twoyou have one that says in the loop whichmeans as you can see here I have thisone Loop selection up here if I choosethat only the notes that are underneaththat Loop marker gets selected and thenthese are some useful ones you have onethat says from start to cursor so thecursor is right here everything beforethat to the left is getting selected andthen you have just the opposite when yougo over here you have from the cursor tothe end which then selects everything tothe right of the cursor and then youhave some variations on that thing wejust talked about by holding Ctrl andclicking you get equal pitch on all theoctaves equal pitch on the same octaveor select controllers in note range andthis one threw me off at first because alot of times when you select the notevalues you'll notice like for example Ihave velocity down here in the bottom itautomatically selected it so why would Ineed an extra command that says selectthe controllers in the note rangethere's quite a few controllers that donot respond that way I might have aftertouch selected or pitch Bend or someother things if I select these knows itdoesn't automatically select thosecontrollers so this is a good optionwhen you need that kind of a thing allright that'll wrap it up for today asusual if you haven't grabbed yournavigation guide be sure to grab thatbefore you go has links to all thecontent on this channel ever growingfree to use the tip of the day learn touse control click in the key Editor toselect all notes in the same range I canpromise you if you remember that commandthat day will come when you'll be tryingto select a whole bunch of notes on thesame range and you'll go what was thatcommand well now you know as always it'sgreat to have you guys here see you onthe next video