Feel free to post any extra tips you have.
I apologise in advance if this is stuff that like everyone knows, but to the person who doesn't its bound to be useful.
Also for those who spend more time making music than reading manuals.
- If you have version 5.1 you may or may not have noticed the addition of a button called MARKER in the arrange page by clicking the button and using the pencil tool you can draw in markers listing the various sections of your track, you can also double click on each section and keep notes for each part.
- Clicking the drop down arrow next to the marker button allows you to click on a section and have your left and right locaters jump to that section.
Also holding ctrl and alt and clicking on a part also has the same effect. - There are useful things called folder tracks in cubase pick a track, name it then change the type via the drop down menu to folder track. Now drag and drop some tracks onto this folder track and they will become a subset of it. Enabling you to keep your arrangement tidy, and to mute whole sections in one go.
- Under edit > preferences > key commands >> options menu give the command disable audio a keyboard shortcut, that way you can disable audio and change projects then re-enable cubase without restarting cubase, and without getting annoying error messages.
(Thanks to the guys who originally gave me this tip, I couldn't find the post again to give you credit) - Also if you've ever wondered why your C6 key never wants to work in cubase, its because under edit > preferences > key commands you have remote active or remote key enabled, so disable it!
- In the edit window after you have played something in just hit Q to quantise according to the snap and quantise values currently set, which incidently can be changed quickly by hitting the numbers 1-8 on the main keyboard.
(A have a friend that didn't know this, he went berserk as he saw me hit Q to quantise my part i'd just played in. He couldn't believe that he'd spent hours lining up notes by hand!!!!) - If you hold down the alt key while moving a part it copies it.
- In Drum edit holding either the ctrl, alt or shift keys gives different velocities.
Which are settable on the left pane of the drum edit window.
The values correspond as follows;
lev1 => alt + click
lev2 => ctrl + click
lev3 => shift + click
lev4=> click
Notice how each drum sound has its own set of levels enabling you to quickly stepwrite authentic drum rhythms by randomly altering the levels, and using key combinations as above. - Also if you never save as arrangements always as song files you may get annoyed to find that the top of your arrange page always says untilted so right click and rename it.
- If for some unknown reason cubase consistently crashes every time you do one particular thing in a particular project.
Under options > audio setup > system. Hit the tick box in the botttom right hand corner that says expert mode, and change to a different scheme of internal priorities.
You will have to experiment carefully but it might get you through a certain patch in a project, it saved my skin once. And since in the later versions of cubase settings are saved with each song not globally, this will not affect all your projects.
(In the words of porky pig)
If there is anything I've got slightly wrong or you really desperately want screen shots send me a private message.
Happy pulsaring/cubaseing
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