Score Entering and Editing Notes V3 in Cubase

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Score Entering and Editing Notes V3 in Cubase

hello everybody Andrew Blake from thedigitalaudiomanual.com today we move onto the third videos we continue todiscuss score entering and editing ofnotes in Cubase but before we start Iwant to remind you that there's a linkbelow to the free content navigationguide which is an easy to navigatewebpage with links to all the content onthis channel and besides that in thenear future I'm going to begin addingtips and other bits of information thatwill only be available there you knowthings like simple steps that will getyou started and up and running quickthings that are in the videos but arewritten down in simple steps that serveas quick reminders when you needinformation down the road if you'reworking with programs like wavelab orCubase plugins or the cable guys shaperbox and many many other projects thatare in the works then I know you'regoing to find just like I have that thisis an invaluable study Aid and the otherthing I want to make sure you understandis that this is not a simple PDF this isa constantly updated page that has anyinformation that is new or anytimevideos are changed really anythingupdated and once you have it you willalways have the latest informationconstantly updated so if you haven'tgotten it already go to the link belowclick on it and save it to yourfavorites it's my gift to you and it'sabsolutely free Okay so let's getstarted so we've been dealing with thescore with a few videos now and ofcourse as usual all previous videos arein the navigation guide in the linkbelow but let's lead off looking at alittle bit of some of the copy pasteoptions available here so there's a moveyou make that's typical in Cubase if youhold the shift and the ALT key and clicksomewhere it moves the project cursoraround and the same thing happens herein the score you can see the whereverI'm pointing as long as I hold shift andALT on my keyboard which I am I can movemy cursor around so I can do most of thesame operations with cut copy and pastethat you would typically do if I takeall these notes with my select tool andI hit Ctrl C to copy them now by holdingshift and the ALT key to move my cursorsomeplace let's go back to the verybeginning of the song and now if I hitCtrl VI can paste those notes in control Z outof it I can do the same thing as far ascutting notes if I hit Ctrl and x andthen I go back over to the cursor hereand hold the shift and the alt to movemy cursor Ctrl V to paste itand I can move my notes if I hold altand copy these notes to this lower staffyou can cut copy and paste multiplestats at the same time if I take allthese notes and I do control copy Ctrl Cand then I move my cursor overI now have these notes on the staff nowhere's some real fancy stuff dependingon how you've got your active staff setremember we talked about this little barhere that shows the active staffI'm going to control Z out of this for aminuteif I take those groups of notes and do acontrol copy on them but now I change myactive staff up to this top staff herehold shift and ALT to move my cursorover and then hit a control V look whatit did there it took the notes from thisstaff and the notes from the staff aboveand combine them into one staffin this area herethis amazing operations this thing cando I'm a control Z out of this if Ichange this active staff up to this topstaff and control V to thatit took those notes from here and copiedthem way up there all right let's talkabout this feature called the noteediting overlay if you go up to yourtoolbar if it's not already visible andyou look down your list there's anoption that says the note editingoverlay if I click on that you get thislittle button and if I turn this on youget this thing that's right now isfollowing my mouse along and it lookslike a little ruler grid type of thingand if there's no notes on the staffit's kind of more empty but when youhave notes on the staff you'll see boxesand little rectangles on it now this isone of those things that wasn't inprevious versions that I can recall ofthe score and it's amazing to me thatsomething like this was developed andthere was really no Fanfare involvedwith it because it's really quiteamazing so let me show you the basics ofit and we'll go a little deeper once weget that going and the first thingthat's visible when you bring this thingup is you get these little letters of md v s l and and how you select theseletters when you click on them thisdetermines really what functionalitybecomes available if we look at the veryfirst one which stands for M when youselect that that's basically telling youthat you're going to be editing the midinote durations the same way you would inthe key editor that kind of a thingwhen you hit the D that allows you tokind of mess with the note durations andthen if you hit V you actually areallowed to change velocities nowdepending on which button you pressthere's also a snap option which has theletter s some of these do not show thesnap the midi display one doesand then you have this L which is greatbecause it could possibly get annoyingwhen you're moving your mouse around andyou don't mean to have this displayfollow you so you have the option tolock it by hitting this L now I can movemy mouse if I need to for something elsebut the display will stay where it's atnow you still have freedom to grab thedisplay and move it somewhere elsephysically and you can always unlock itand have it follow you around as wellbut I'm going to lock it for now rightnext to that you have a little arrowthat allows you to move this above orbelow the notes and for visualconvenience that's a great option aswell so let me go to the V for velocitythat's one that's easiest to see rightawayas you can see there's now a little boxabove every note that I have here andjust like in the key editor I can grabthe velocity and I can move it up ordown now this changes colors dependingon what I've selected and you actuallyhave a preference to determine if youwant to change that to a different colorlike right now it's kind of a bluishkind of color if I go up to edit down tomy preferences and then into the scoresarea there's an option that says colorsfor the additional meanings the veryfirst one says selected events and it'sblue if I want to change that I click onit and then I can scroll or change tothe Hue of whatever other color I wantto make but blue works for me right nowI'm going to keep it say okay so then Ican start grabbing these velocities andjust drag them around to whatever I wanttotally adding more life to the soundwhen you go to the first one that setsthe midi duration as you take any one ofthese rectangles and move it and againthere's a rectangle over every note if Imove it to the left then it definitelyjust shrinks it to whatever you knowshort value it is and again this isreflecting exactly what's happening inthe key editor with midi the same way ifI expand it and it goes bigger than thenote next to it it just kind of throwsthe display of the other note up intoanother Lane above it and just allowsyou to continually drag it to the rightas far as you want to drag it once youlet go of it it kind of redraws in whatthe note values need to look like youcan select multiple notes when you'reusing this thing and then you can moveall of these durations at once I'll makethem really tiny like little staccatos[Music]now I'll make them back long againso this is definitely something you'regoing to want to experiment with justselecting notes and trying thesedifferent options if I grab the D foredit display durationit does the same thing it changes thenotes the way they look this is kind oftied to this toolbar up here where youcan change the node durations because ifI change this to like in this case froman eighth note to a sixteenth note and Igo back to my grid now my grid is eventinier the rectangles are still therethere's little lines kind of in thereshowing you where the different grid isand if I enact the s for the snap thenit will actually move and snap in thegrid as well which makes it veryconvenient and easy to move the noteswhen you're using this overlay you getsome color options as well as I move itover these group of notes right now Ihave this kind of tan or amber color tothe actual midi velocities or lengthsbut if I go back up to the overlaybutton there's a drop down list and itgives you these color options right nowit's on part if I change it to channelcolors then I get a different set ofcolors on the editing I go to pitchI get like all different kinds of colorsvelocity various different shades andthen you get a color setup if you wantto change some things but you also getthis option for whatever option you takehere if you take this top one that sayscolorize the overlaid note heads notonly does it change the overlay but itchanges the notes themselves so you cansee these notes are all different colorsas well so whatever you pick if I pickvelocity then all the notes change withthe velocity colors the other thing iswhen you change these specific thingslike let's say I go back to the midiediting and I started to grab it anddrag it left or right if I'm going todrag it left in this point as I do thislook up on the info bar up here on thetop and you will see these numberschange to reflect whatever change I makehere if I'm dragging this now left toright if I look up on the end and thelength those numbers are changing in thelittle decimal places like we've talkedabout before and they reflect whateverchange I'm making down here as I'mdragging these bars around so that kindof gives you an idea again when youchange these decimal numbers what effectyou're actually having because now youcan see it in real time when youactually change these same thing if Iswitch it over to the velocity and Imove these velocities up and down if youlook at the velocity up here on the infobar that's changing the same way that'sgoing up and down all right so the lastthing I want to call your attention tois how this option to edit the midi noteduration and the edit display durationare different the edit midi noteduration will actually change midi notesin the editor whereas this displayduration only changes the note valuesnow to be honest at this point I'm notcompletely clear at what the advantageor disadvantage of having the noteschanged but not actually change the midinotes behind them but let me try to giveyou an example to really make this clearso you're not confused by it in thelittle example I have I have this phraseof these notes playingand below me I have the key editor openin the lower zone so we can actually seethese notes now what does happen is onthe midi display option if I pickwhatever node I'm working on whateverrectangle it does select the note in thecontroller area as well if you see thisnote has become highlighted because Iselected this rectangle above it butdown here in the controller this notealso became selected so they'recompletely in sync in terms of selectingthe notes but watch what happens when Idrag this note out to a longer lengthI'm going to grab it and drag it to theright all the way to the end of themeasure just to make it obviousand you can see it made this crazychange on the actual written notes butit also down in the controller took thatmidi note and made it long through thewhole bar as well it's hard to hear butthis note is actually ringing out[Music]as you would expect because it's a longheld midi note now if I return this backjust like it was and I do the same thingbut I select the action that says thedisplay and now I grab the rectangleabove the note it is selected the noteand it is selected the note in theeditor as well so in that way they actexactly the same but watch what happenswhen I stretch this note out like I didbefore if I click it and drag it all theway to the rightit made the same crazy display change ofthe notes but the midi note down on thecontroller made no change whatsoever[Music]so there's no sound Difference bychanging things in the displayand I have to say at this point thatcould be very confusing because you'rechanging the notes but the sound is notreflecting it so there must be anadvantage to being able to change thevisible notes but not actually change inthe midi notes I'm sure we will uncoverthat mystery as we go along further butfor now I'm going to say you shouldprobably only use this edit midi noteduration as we're learning this to keepthe idea clear that whatever you changein the display will also be reflected inhow the actual music sounds and we willgo from that point and that's going towrap it up for today as usual if youhaven't grabbed your navigation guide besure to grab that before you go there'slinks to all the content on this channelever growing free to use all the contentis in order and labeled by subject andit's in the link right below this videoso be sure to click on that download itsave it to your favorites and use itwhenever you need itas we continue to move through and solvethe mysteries of the score today we didvarious things looking at the copy andpaste and began looking at the noteediting overlayobviously an amazingly powerful featurewhen you're dealing with the score mostimportantly we saw some of thedifferences of how the actual editingaffects the midi data behind it and wewill continue on this journey until wesolve as many problems as we possiblycanso all of us can deal with this thingwith a lot more confidence as alwaysit's great to have you guys here I'llsee you in the next video