Score Polyphonic Voices V2 in Cubase

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Score Polyphonic Voices V2 in Cubase

hello everybody Andrew Blake from thedigitalaudiomanual.com today let's moveon to our second video as we discuss thescore polyphonic voices in Cubase butbefore we start I want to remind youthat there's a link below to the freecontent navigation guide which is aneasy to navigate webpage with links toall the content on this channel andbesides that in the near future I'mgoing to begin adding tips and otherbits of information that will only beavailable there you know things likesimple steps that will get you startedand up and running quick things that arein the videos but are written down insimple steps that serve as quickreminders when you need information downthe road if you're working with programslike wavelab or Cubase plugins or thecable guys shaper box and many manyother projects that are in the worksthen I know you're going to find justlike I have that this is an invaluablestudy Aid and the other thing I want tomake sure you understand is that this isnot a simple PDF this is a 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we're lookingat so we can actually read this so I'mgoing to control all I'm going to holdshift in my down arrow move these notesdown for a secondI'm going to click and drag over thesechords that showed up I'm going to rightclick on these and say hide these playthis againI'm going to take this bottom note allthese bottom notes and select them I'mgoing to hold shift and hit the up Arrowplay itbetter I'm going to hit shift and hitthe up Arrow Again Play itthere we go that sounds like somethingand I can read it on my score veryeasily but as we talked about in thelast video up here on top you have thisoption to select various voicessometimes this is active sometimes it'snot depending on how you've set thingsup right now mine is showing that thefour voices are active but if I hit oneof my notes down here on the staff nomatter what note I hit it always stayson the number one voice which tells methat every one of these notes is stillassigned to just one voice now again wewe still haven't dissected every one ofthe pros and cons of using thePolyphonic voices but let me show youone thing that's useful that you'll getout of this when you're looking at ascore and you've got notes laid outchords and notes Let Me select this verytop note here when I selected it it goesblue you can use your computer arrows onyour keyboard going left and right andwhen you do that it will go through eachone of these noteswe'll hit the other Arrowand if I keep hitting the arrow it'sgoing to move on to the next set ofnotesnext set of notesnext set of notesand again there's times you're going towant to go through your song that waybut what if you wanted to go from one ofthe top notes to the next top note tothe next top note to the next instead ofgoing up and down through these chordswell that's where some of thesepolyphonic voicing options come in andwhat it allows you to do if I deselecteverything on the track for a minutejust kind of Click outside the staff andI go over onto the side properties and Ipick this area that says the staff modeand right now I have a drop down thatsays single but if I move down and go tothe option that says piano polyphonicand click on that now we're back intothis split staff option but again if Ihit one of these notes and I use my sideArrowthank youit still goes up and down through thenotes and if I look at the voices uphere they all stay on The Voice numberone all the time so all these notes arestill assigned to the number one voicenow before I show you the next thing Iwant to show you when changing thesevoicesI want to show you why there's anadvantage to doing this as we go alongI'll probably make a couple of videosdemonstrating what happens when youmanually start entering notes in fromother scores which in my opinion is oneof the most fun things you can do withthis whole score editor because it opensup the whole world of all the sheetmusic that's out there and now withoutyou having any playing abilitywhatsoever you can enter that score ontoyour Cubase project and then not onlymanipulate that data to be played bymultiple instruments any way you want itbut you can also use cubase's ability toanalyze chords and then begin tounderstand some of the options you canuse in your own compositions or evenwithout understanding you can still justuse the chord progressions that youdiscover which again now gives youhundreds of years of classical musicalcompositions that are available inwritten staff formfor you too without any really musicalability at all enter them into the scoreand make use of all that great knowledgebut let's let's stay focused for aminute and not get too far away so as Iwas entering a score myself as anexample when I have things on the singlestaff or the single voices like we havehere and I begin the process of wantingto change the notes and I'm using myarrow to do my edits as I hit my arrowand I want to get through these notes ifI'm just trying to work on the top linethis melody line here it's kind ofcumbersome to have to go up and down thescaleon each one of these to get to the noteI'm trying to get to which ultimately Imay just take my mouseand start changing the noteso back to the Polyphonic voicingcostume if I have all these notes onthis step and I have this set as thisand I have this set as the active staffand I go back up to my scores and I comedown to my functions option we look atthis a little bit in the last video butif I go to this option that says explodein the last video we talked about how toexplode it to new tracks but you alsohave an option to go and explode it tothe Polyphonic voices so without youhaving to really do any kind of manualwork this will take these notes and putthem on their own separate voices in myexperimentation I found that this optionwould be checks as lines to tracks isthe one that works the best for this sonow if I hit OK a few things havechanged but nothing really drasticeverything is still kind of on the staffbut now the difference is if I hit thisfirst noteagain up here The Voice number one isselected but if I go to this next notenownow it immediately changes to the secondvoice and if I go to this one here thisthird noteup here on top it changes to the thirdvoice and if I go to the bottom note uphere on tap it changes to the fourthvoice well Cubase has done for me now inthe background it's taken every one ofthese notes and assigned it to its ownvoice as it applies up here on this toplittle area which now means if I selectone of the notes at the top and I hit myside Arrow it goes right to the nextnote it doesn't go down through thechord anymore and if I hit my rightarrow again it goes right to the nextnote again and if I hit the next one itgoes right to the next note and if Ipick another note in the voice let's sayI go to this second note down here now Ihit my arrow it goes to the next noteagain over here and it stays right onthe exact voice in the chordso it makes it very easy to now edit thenotes within the chord where I foundthis to be really useful and again I'llgive you more specific example as we goalong but now when you're entering innotes you can basically put in somebasic notes and then you can just simplyuse your arrow moving along throughthese notes and using your mouse wheelto kind of make your editswhich now starts to make the enteringprocess a very complicated notations alittle more streamlined in the wholeprocessthen we come to this option of creatingcrossed voicings and this works outreally good when you're doing somethingfor vocals specifically but could beanythingbut you want your notes to go with stemsgoing in one direction for one set ofnotes and Stems going in a differentdirection for the other set of notes soif we have something here that was justmade with regular you know a singlestaffyou can see all the stems are going downright now and then we'll do a similarthing that we've done already let's goover to the properties on the right andchanges from single to piano polyphonicat this point we just have an extrastamp but all the notes are still set onone voice make sure we have an activestaff up here go to our scores down toour functions into our explode optionmake sure that we check two polyphonicvoices I'm going to leave everythingelse unchecked here but leave the linesto tracks checked hit okay and just likethat we have stems going up on the topnotes and Stems down on the bottom notestop note when we select it is on voiceone because it highlights when we go tothis bottom note that switches to voicetwoso what's becoming obvious is one of thereal power features of this polyphonicvoicing option is the ability to createspecific lines that you want to stayintact for example when we go back to asingle staff with this example here[Music]if I were to explode this onto eitherdifferent staffs or into polyphonicvoices if I leave it just like it isthis top note this top notethis top note in this top note would allstay on voice one and the bottom notefor each one of these wouldautomatically go to Voice two but whatif I have either a singer or aninstrument playing and I want it to gofrom this top note to this top note butthen at the next note I don't want it tobe the top note anymore I want it tocontinue on to the bottom note and thenI want to continue it to the next bottomnotetherefore allowing me to when I finallyexplode this that will be the line thatwill go on to one staff and the otherone will kind of cross and be on its ownstaff so when you start using thispolyphonic voicing this becomes a fairlyeasy operation and there's quite a fewways actually they give us to achievethat but let's just look at the oneobvious one every one of these start thesame way we want to enact this pianopolyphonic but at this point all thesevoices are still on a single voicenothing has been changed yet in terms ofwhat voice it's on so again if I explodeit only the bottom notes are going to goto one area and the top notes are goingto go another way but if I highlight saythis first noteand I hold Ctrl and I highlight the nexttop notebut then I can do a cross voice where Igo to the next bottom note and then thefinal bottom noteyou can do a couple of things you canjust right click on any of these and youcan say move this to voice and then youcan just say whatever voice you want tomove it to or another option they giveus is you can go up to the voiceningnumbers here and pick whichever one youwant say I'm going to move this to voicetwo if I hold Ctrl and click this at thesame time those voices have now beenmoved to voice two and the originalvoices at the bottom here are still onvoice oneso now we have these voices assigned towhere the top voice is going to thisnote the next note it's crossing over iscrossing over again and the bottom noteis starting at the bottom going to thisnext note but then it's crossing overcrossing over so now we have an optionif we want to use it we go back up toour scores down to our functions and wehave an option that says extract thevoices so if we click on thatnothing happens necessarily on our scorethe notes stay written as they were Iclose this down now the voices have allbeen dissolved and set to their owninstrumental track so if I go to thisfirst one and I open it back up controlrI now have that line that goes from thebottom to the top exactly the way Iwanted it to be if I go to the nexttrack control R I now have that linegoing from the very top to the verybottom and if I select them and openthem both up I can see them both on thestaff at the same time the amazingawesome potential of this is really hardto explain at this point but will becomevery obvious the further you go alongthe path of learning to use this scoreall right that's going to wrap it up fortoday as always if you haven't grabbedyour navigation guide be sure to grabthat from the link below has links toall the content on this channel evergrowing and free to use is there foryour benefits they're for my benefit andit's there if you want to use it todayor six months from today hopefully thegoal there is to make everybody's life awhole lot easier when it comes tofiguring out some function or featurethat you're stuck onforeign so when I think of the score andespecially when I think about it now asopposed to where we started about 10videos ago I'm pretty much awestruck Imean I'm starting to see more and morewhat this thing is capable ofI could only say that there had to be atsome point a huge amount of improvementsbecause I remember trying to examine thescore features maybe six seven years agoand I walked away in completefrustration not to say that it's anyeasier necessarily now but what I'mdiscovering and I hope you'rediscovering too that the functionalityunder the hood of this thing it ismind-blowingI mean really we're just scratching thesurface in terms of getting our hands onthis thing but if you want to take sometime and really dig into it it can takeyou down some paths that you may neverhave thought possible before itcertainly opens up many many creativeoptions in terms of what you can do withyour songs and music and I gotta say inmany ways if you understand the scorethere's things you can do looking at thescore that trying to do it in the midieditor are just more of a challenge Imean for example trying to you knowcross your voices around doing that inthe midi editor with a score you canactually see where things are going upand downI could just go on and on I'm reallyhighly impressed as the further I godown this path all right let's leave itthereas always it's great to have you guyshere and I'll see you on the next video