Transcribing MIDI to Score in Cubase

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Transcribing MIDI to Score in Cubase

hello everybody Andrew Blake from thedigitalaudiomanual.com today we're goingto start the first video as we talkabout transcribing midi recordings toscore 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 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 although this is the firstvideo on this subject of transcribingthe midi notes we have at this pointquite a few other videos relating to thescore and those are in the navigationguide in the link below as always but inthis series as we go around we're goingto look more a little more in detail atwhat is involved when we take a basicmidi recording as it is and then startusing the score to look at it or edit itnow it is suggested sometimes if youhave a super complicated midi score onething to possibly consider is to make acopy of that track or tracks and usethem specifically just for your scorethat way you can simplify those tracksif necessary just to account accommodatewhat's visually going to happen in thescore so first up we're going to look atthis quantized tool which we've alreadydiscussed in other videos it's a toollike any others if you go to yourtoolbar and you right click and then youscroll around until you find the littlecue which stands for display quantizethis now gives you a tool that allowsyou to click in display quantizedchanges that don't necessarily reflectwhat's going to happen to the midi butsometimes the purpose for something likethis is it's very likely you can haveyour score be almost completely perfectin every other way except maybe a bar ortwo someplace and you don't want to haveto change the whole score just toaccommodate the one bar of strangecomplicated notes so by using thisdisplay quantize option once you bringthis little cue in here and you get thedisplay quantize options here you canchange that to whatever display quantizeyou want to make for this example I'mgoing to spin it all the way down to aquarter note both the notes and therests these notes are eighth notes butwhen I click this display quantize nodein here so it now only allows quarternotes from wherever I click this andgoing on into the score now let's say asI get along a few notes I want it to goback so I can go back and spin this upto 16th notes like I had come down hereand click my little cue again and thenat that point the score will continue onback at 16th notes now a couple thingsto observe when you put these in hereyou get these little Flags which showyou that something has been changed inthe display in this case it shows a Q4and then a q16 and these are visibledepending on what you have up on thisfilter bar we haven't explored any ofthe options up here yet but there's oneup here that says quantize and as youcan see it's checked if I uncheck thisthose little Flags visually go awaythey're still there but they're out ofview if I click it back in I hit thequantize and now they're back in therenow once again the score is still goingto play like it normally doesso keep in mind this is only a displayoption in terms of how the notes looknow I have a couple of options in termsof removing these I can switch from myquantize toolto the erase tool and just erase themhit them with my erase tool or I can hitbackspace and delete those options aswell all right here is one that isloaded with creative potential in orderto demonstrate this I'm going to back upand do something with a chord track soI've loaded up cord pads down hereand I'm going to trigger them with mymidi keyboardI'm just going to hit a loop and hitrecord on some chords[Music]so I get something interesting goinglike thisand then I'm going to open up my scorelike I normally do control rand so now you can see my chords arewritten here on this one track[Music]now we have an option if we go up intothe scores go down to functions we havean option that says explode and if wehit that guy you have a whole bunch ofoptions here basically you set it to newtracks you would pick how many tracksyou want to use you can set up a splitnote if you want you can set it to go tothe base to the lowest note or you canpick this option that says linesubtracts that's the only one I'm goingto use to demonstrate this and I'm goingto leave it at setting three tracks andwhat this is going to dois it's going to take each one of thesenotes it's similar to when we dissolve amidi part break these chords up and putthem on their own track and allow us tosee them in the score on individualnotes watch this if I hit okayand the first thing you'll notice is theonly thing that's left in the score Ihave is one note I'm going to close thisdown for a minuteand as we look here we now have fourdifferent midi tracks the original trackand three new tracks that were createdthat split those notes all up if Iselect them all and reopen them in thescore againnow I have all of my parts playing ontheir own separate track and all writtenon their own individual score lines[Music]point I could take all of these tracksand assign them to different instrumentspossibly orchestral instruments a bassyou know cello different violin parts orI could break them up into synthsanything I want but obviously the amountof creative options on something likethis where you can just break all yourparts up well there's a lot of optionshere now I'm going to show you one morething about this if I close this scoredown you also have the option to open upyour score in the lower zone so I'mgoing to open that up and this hasopened up the lower zone is a midieditor but if I go to the editor there'sa drop down arrow and I can actuallychoose the score editor at that pointnow I have the same thing with my scorebut it's in the lower Zone where I cansee itand something I have seen I haven'treally discovered this yet but I justkind of stumbled on it by playing withit the score will actually updatedepending on what tracks I've chosen forexample if I only select one track heremy score will now show me just that onetrackwithout having to close the score andreopen it if I hold Ctrl and hit thenext linenow I have both lines in the score andthe same thing I can keep adding thedifferent lines inand the final lineso this thing is quite amazing on someof the versatilityso you have a great option to change thescore to the midi if there is some kindof discrepancy for example on this scorethat I havethings are pretty close the notesreflect what's happening in the midi butlet's say I take these midi notes hereI'm going to take this first group ofthem and select them and I'm going to goto my length and I'm going to shortenthe length way way down on these notesso that they're almost like hardly therenow when I play the score listen tothese notesthey're almost staccato-like and theother ones are normalbecause what's happened is the midinotes although they're hitting in theright spot the length of them iscompletely different than what's on thescore and this could be any number ofthings that we've changed in the scorethe way that we've written it this isjust one quick example but if we go upto the option that says scores come downto functions and there's an option inthis group that says score notes to MIDIand if I click on that it will now takewhatever is written on the score exactlyand make the midi notes reflect that sonow I have normal notesthank youand it turns out this also works withthat display quantized option so if I goback to my toolbar and I take the littlecue and let's say I take my notes downto quarter notes and I hit a displayquantize right here at this group ofeighth notes which has changed theseeighth notes now into quarter notesagain it doesn't have anything to dowith the midi notes because when I playthe songthe notes still play as eighth notes inthe backgroundso if I want my midi to now reflectexactly what's on the score again if Igo up to the scores option down to thefunctions and then score notes to MIDIimmediately it now takes those midinotes and makes them quarter notes aswell so now we have thisforeign[Music]it's going to wrap it up for today asusual we haven't grabbed our navigationguide be sure to grab that before you golinks to all the content on the channelever growing and free to use all thevideos are in orderconstantly being updated and just feelfree to consider it your new onlineresource when you need some informationquick as we continue to make our waythrough learning the score so today welearned a few more things about thedisplay quantize exception option welearned how to explode the chords on ascore which is an amazing option andthen we learned if we did make somechanges in the score how we can make themidi notes match the score this featureof the score continues to reveal justlayer after layer of features andoptions where if you understand them youcan really go a long ways with yourcreative process and we will continuethis discussion as we work our wayforward as always it's great to have youguys here I'll see you in the next video