Hi. I understood how you used the Chord Pads to make you chord progressions but, what was unclear to me is how you got the second track to play a different rhythm from what I think was from the Media Bay. I wish you had showed an example of how you got that rhythm from the Media Bay. I loved how you blended the second rhythm & new sound of the second track to the first basic chords of the first track. That was very nice after you added the second track. I wish you had showed us how you made that happen. I also like how you made the harmony parts using that Scale Assistance. I wrote everything word down under the copy of this saved video for your first 3 things that you said you wish you knew before. That made me very tired. But the first three topics were my favorites in the video. Thank you so much for making this video and I wish you continued success with all of your future videos and endeavors and I also wish you continued success financially as well. If you have time please answer my question on how you changed the rhythm with the media bay on the second track and blended the new sound and rhythm with the first original track from the Chord Pads on the first track. Have a wonderful day.
The alternative is to learn some chords! You can learn basic chords in about 15 minutes, then learn the concept of building more complex chords by simply adding 3rds which will take a little longer, and finally the relationship between them. The whole process can be done in a few days - a lot shorter than learning to use Cubase! It's like trying to write a story without knowing any words, then using a word generator. It will never sound original or decent. Pre-made chord tracks are occasionally useful, but they are no substitute for learning chords and basic harmony. It really doesn't take long.
Hello Steve, since a couple of month I´m folling your channel, great job so far thank you. When you said that I wish I had learned a little earlier ...you spoke out of my heart. I´m using Cubase since 1999/2000 (SL / SX old days). I love Cubase 13 and still learning new hacks and tricks every single day. Sorry, I ´m not a native speaker hopefully my words discribe good engough what I try to point out.
Hi Steve. Absolutely love your Cubase videos. So informative and easy to understand. Have you thought of putting a full tutorial course together on Cubase?
As a New Cubase user after ditching Studio one this is amazing - loving your channel thank you - the transition has been difficult but your videos are making the transition 100% faster - 100% sold on CuBase - extremely powerful
your channel is awesome cubase , after the learning curve, really gives u everyting to make the best product. im even starting to stop using some of my third party plugins because the cubase ones are as good or better......thanks for the content
Good list and great tips. I recently (via another person's list) found out a that you can create a key-command for turning you selection tool into a time-stretch tool. Is not activated by default, but it should be! That helped me a lot!
It is too big for what most people do. It is very widely used, however. Only social networks and stuff make it seem less used due to the type of users each DAW uses.
Ye it's been forgotten a bit since Ableton hit the scene, but cubase is THE DAW for me, always will be, using it since cubase 3, it was a pirate copy I admit, but I bought 5 and have been legit ever since
You can use the time warp tool to drag the beat lines to match the song (a kick drum is easiest). It can be better than tempo detection because for example if a song is 120bpm, the detector can say its 119-121-119-121-119-121 and still be right by the end of the song.
Man I was so zoned into this video that at one point I moused down to see what the system update was. Then I noticed that was on your screen and not mine. Great tips though.
I love Cubase and it's currently my DAW of choice. However, when it comes to tempo detection and tempo matching, other DAWs like FL Studio make it much simpler and faster to undertake. 2 to 3 clicks and you are done. Save for this in my view, Cubase is the best.
do you have keyboard command shortcut like "b" for example that bounces the audio or renders in place? (rare bounce and render in place the same thing?) and ifso which one and what do you assign it to and where in the key commands assign window? thanks in advance, joey :)
I assigned 'B' to audio bounce just because of my old editing habits from WAY back in the day but you can pick anything. How you set up your key commands has more to do with the way you choose to work.
Heya :) thanks for the reply. Maybe I wasn’t clear. I also want to change my command to B for bounce in my key commands. Just wondering what I look for in there and in which section? Is it in the edits section of key commands and am I looking for the actual bounce word or render in place that does the bounce process? Many thanks. J :)
One Info: Don't bounce the copied part for Harmony. If you bounce, you will loose all the realtime processing Info like variaudio. Click on the part (right click if you configured for Menü not tools) select "Convert To Real Copy"
Thanks for the video. I can't find this anywhere, but you found it: the voicing arrows between the pads. How do I select this? For that matter, your chord pad zone has some options to the left and I don't see that either. Can you help? :)
In Cubase 12 and earlier, simply hover your mouse above the chord pad and the little arrows appear, just click on them. In 13 on, each pad has its own window on the right with all the same voicing and tension choices at a glance.
@@Featherlightstudio Thank you for the prompt reply. I'm using 13 and the voicing arrow exists in the tool bar, but nowhere else, I'm afraid. It's no big deal, but when I see cool stuff (like those convenient arrows beside the pads), I both want whatever it is, and wonder why whatever it is doesn't work for me. But again, thanks kindly. Cheers!
Cubase Chord Pads ended up dismally disppointing me becuz for YEARSSS the software FORCES us to use chord VOICINGS of its own. It was so frustrating to have a software dictate to me which voicings I am FORCED to use to play the Eb Major chord. I could Not even REDUCE the notes in the chord or do ANYTHING i really wanted with Cubase' forced-voicings 🙄😒🤕🤕 after 3 years i finally had to give up using chord pads and go to Scaler (yeah . . . THIRD-party plugin JUST to be able to play my preferred VOICING of the Eb Major chord 🤕🙄🙄). Scaler also showed me some flames due to . . . you're Not gonna believe this: It cannot transpose MULTIPLE chords stored on its Chord Pads. You must transpose the chords ONE by ONE . . . the most MUNDANE and easy operation (transposing notes/chords) . . . is STILL Not possible in Scaler in June 2024 😁😂😂.
Have you tried to activate the assign from MIDI input option when defining the chord for the pad? You can play a particular chord voicing from a MIDI controller and the played voicing is what is used for the chord pad voicing.
The "Tempo Detection" is one of Cubase's best features, but why are so many using it to destry their music. The problem is that it's far too often followed by the "Set Definition from Tempo" nonsense. This is crazy!!! This is what the manual has to say about Set Definition from Tempo. "The Set Definition from Tempo dialog allows you to set up freely recorded audio material to follow a specific tempo.", "You can adjust the tempo of freely recorded audio material to the project tempo." and "This is achieved by applying warping to the events". What this describes (and what happens) is, in practicality, hard quantising of audio. It warps the audio to a static tempo, and removes the tempo fluctuations that gives you music it's soul. Stay far away from this madness, unless you want to make emotionless robotic tone sequences. I'm not sure that I would even call it music. "Set Definition from Tempo" should be renamed "Suck the life out of the music", because that's what it does!
No. You misunderstood the function. "Set Definition from Tempo" does literally nothing to your track, unless you change the tempo map afterwards! If you straighten it out completely, then the track might sound robotic, as you said. However, you don't have to make such a drastic change to the tempo map... It's entirely up to you 😉
@@valsolim That's not what the manual says. Please, read it again. Carefully! How does it work? "The Set Definition from Tempo dialog allows you to set up freely recorded audio material to follow a specific tempo.", "This is achieved by applying warping to the events". What you think "Warping to follow a specific tempo means"? "you don't have to make such a drastic change to the tempo map". Wrong again! There is no strength parameter in the Set Definition from Tempo dialog dialog. It's all or nothing! Listen to song with tempo fluctiations, before and after applying "Set Definition from Tempo". Do you hear any difference? If so, what's the difference?
@@svenisaksson3970 Not only have I read the manual carefully but I also use this function in almost every project 🙂I do not know what is wrong with your setup but after I apply "Set Definition from Tempo", there is no difference in playback. The difference starts to show when I manipulate the tempo map (if you have Musical mode enabled for the audio event). "The Set Definition from Tempo dialog allows you to set up freely recorded audio material to follow a specific tempo.", "This is achieved by applying warping to the events" Yes, that is what the manual says and that is true! However, when you only "Set Definition from Tempo" and do not change the tempo map, then the track follows the original tempo and, consequently, there is no change in playback.
@@svenisaksson3970Cubase basically adds a grid to the audio. As long as that grid is the same as the project grid nothing gets changed. Once you change the project grid the audio will follow suit by means of time stretching (warping). If the new project grid is robotic, so will your audio's tempo. If you use a humanized grid, so will the audio.
I wish I would have known how much time I would have wasted trying to get this program to work and that you need to become a computer geek to record music. No wonder the music industry is in shambles
U took a very long process for creating harmonies . Just create a chord track and go to one tab and find generate harmonies and choose how many voices u need and boom ... Harmony voices will follow the chord track and scale itself . Bingo .. 😅
Top thing I wish I knew is the development Team sucks and takes forever to implement a new feature totally out of touch with their end user totally corporate software
You have to realize that Cubase is built upon a ton of legacy code. This makes it difficult adding new features without breaking something else. Pro Tools suffers from the same problem and neither Steinberg or Avid is as nimble as the Reaper devs.
Love to hear what your favorite Cubase features are?!
@doh8167
Chord pad patterns.
Top-notch video.Thank you !
Hi. I understood how you used the Chord Pads to make you chord progressions but, what was unclear to me is how you got the second track to play a different rhythm from what I think was from the Media Bay. I wish you had showed an example of how you got that rhythm from the Media Bay. I loved how you blended the second rhythm & new sound of the second track to the first basic chords of the first track. That was very nice after you added the second track. I wish you had showed us how you made that happen. I also like how you made the harmony parts using that Scale Assistance. I wrote everything word down under the copy of this saved video for your first 3 things that you said you wish you knew before. That made me very tired. But the first three topics were my favorites in the video. Thank you so much for making this video and I wish you continued success with all of your future videos and endeavors and I also wish you continued success financially as well. If you have time please answer my question on how you changed the rhythm with the media bay on the second track and blended the new sound and rhythm with the first original track from the Chord Pads on the first track. Have a wonderful day.
The alternative is to learn some chords! You can learn basic chords in about 15 minutes, then learn the concept of building more complex chords by simply adding 3rds which will take a little longer, and finally the relationship between them. The whole process can be done in a few days - a lot shorter than learning to use Cubase! It's like trying to write a story without knowing any words, then using a word generator. It will never sound original or decent. Pre-made chord tracks are occasionally useful, but they are no substitute for learning chords and basic harmony. It really doesn't take long.
Hello Steve, since a couple of month I´m folling your channel, great job so far thank you. When you said that I wish I had learned a little earlier ...you spoke out of my heart. I´m using Cubase since 1999/2000 (SL / SX old days). I love Cubase 13 and still learning new hacks and tricks every single day. Sorry, I ´m not a native speaker hopefully my words discribe good engough what I try to point out.
Hi Steve. Absolutely love your Cubase videos. So informative and easy to understand. Have you thought of putting a full tutorial course together on Cubase?
I did one a couple of years ago but that was based on older versions of course. Great suggestion!
@Featherlightstudio well if you decide to put out a new one I will definitely buy it and I'm sure many others will as well. Cheers
Thanks for the video 🤝🔊
As a New Cubase user after ditching Studio one this is amazing - loving your channel thank you - the transition has been difficult but your videos are making the transition 100% faster - 100% sold on CuBase - extremely powerful
Thanx, btw very nice track U used for tempo track demonstration. All the best.
You absolutely deserve a greater sub count, I find your videos to be my go to cubase tutorials. Thank You for your work
your channel is awesome cubase , after the learning curve, really gives u everyting to make the best product. im even starting to stop using some of my third party plugins because the cubase ones are as good or better......thanks for the content
Great vid
Correction 5:39 Windows hotkeys are ALT to copy then CTRL to lock in place.
The windows key is never used as a hotkey.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Mannnn !! Really amazing explanation with detailed guide screens...Just WOW !! 👍👍👊👊
Love these tutorials and tips! Been using Cubase for a long time and it keeps getting better. Thank you
Good list and great tips. I recently (via another person's list) found out a that you can create a key-command for turning you selection tool into a time-stretch tool. Is not activated by default, but it should be! That helped me a lot!
Thank you! My favourites are... The four Cue mixes and Comping using lanes, takes and versions.
Great explanations! Thanks a lot 🙏
I do not know why more people don't use cubase i have been using cubase for 20 years never use another DAW No Need To Thanks Man
Agreed, using it since cubase 2. All I need.
Me, 20+ years. Ironically, if not for Cubase, other DAW's probably wouldn't exist today 🤦🏻♂️
Same here
It is too big for what most people do.
It is very widely used, however. Only social networks and stuff make it seem less used due to the type of users each DAW uses.
Ye it's been forgotten a bit since Ableton hit the scene, but cubase is THE DAW for me, always will be, using it since cubase 3, it was a pirate copy I admit, but I bought 5 and have been legit ever since
You can use the time warp tool to drag the beat lines to match the song (a kick drum is easiest). It can be better than tempo detection because for example if a song is 120bpm, the detector can say its 119-121-119-121-119-121 and still be right by the end of the song.
Fantastically useful video! Thank you so much!
Thanks, I really appreciate that!
Great video, very helpful especially the section on tempo detection.
✌✌✌Thank you Master!!!
Thank you so much for your sharing. This a giant helpful 🙏
Awesome tips! Thank you.
Thank you
cannot find the vocal harmony feature in Cubase AI 13
This page is a great reference when trying to compare the different versions of Cubase
www.steinberg.net/cubase/compare-editions/
Probably a Pro feature
For creating vocal harmony there is a much better way if you have cord track with your song cord , thankyou for video
Very good!
Thanks man !! Awesome tips
A great tutorial. Your videos are the best. Thankyou
great tutorial!!
how did you end the tempo detection session? ie. which button did you press? :)
Right click on your mouse to select any other tool (Cursor, Draw, Line, ext) and that ends the Tempo Detection session.
Man I was so zoned into this video that at one point I moused down to see what the system update was. Then I noticed that was on your screen and not mine. Great tips though.
🤣🤣
Amazing video!
I love Cubase and it's currently my DAW of choice. However, when it comes to tempo detection and tempo matching, other DAWs like FL Studio make it much simpler and faster to undertake. 2 to 3 clicks and you are done. Save for this in my view, Cubase is the best.
It's much easier now
Thanks a lot for the tips ¡ BTW, the song is fantastic ¡ Any data about singer and lyrics? Is it published ?
She is a Northwest artist, her name is Pam Jahn more info here
open.spotify.com/track/1UFpT9SfuomeOUPWUR6vLI
do you have keyboard command shortcut like "b" for example that bounces the audio or renders in place? (rare bounce and render in place the same thing?) and ifso which one and what do you assign it to and where in the key commands assign window? thanks in advance, joey :)
I assigned 'B' to audio bounce just because of my old editing habits from WAY back in the day but you can pick anything. How you set up your key commands has more to do with the way you choose to work.
Heya :) thanks for the reply. Maybe I wasn’t clear. I also want to change my command to B for bounce in my key commands.
Just wondering what I look for in there and in which section? Is it in the edits section of key commands and am I looking for the actual bounce word or render in place that does the bounce process? Many thanks.
J :)
@@Slinky1973 Go to the top Menu Bar/Edit/Key Commands Then search "Bounce" You'll probably get at least 2 results ( MIDI and Bounce Selection )
Great channel
I use chord pads much more often now in C13.
Thank you!!!
please make a slow video, about converting an audio song, into MIDI, that makes sense, please
Great suggestion!
One Info: Don't bounce the copied part for Harmony. If you bounce, you will loose all the realtime processing Info like variaudio. Click on the part (right click if you configured for Menü not tools) select "Convert To Real Copy"
Thanks for the video. I can't find this anywhere, but you found it: the voicing arrows between the pads. How do I select this? For that matter, your chord pad zone has some options to the left and I don't see that either. Can you help? :)
In Cubase 12 and earlier, simply hover your mouse above the chord pad and the little arrows appear, just click on them. In 13 on, each pad has its own window on the right with all the same voicing and tension choices at a glance.
@@Featherlightstudio Thank you for the prompt reply. I'm using 13 and the voicing arrow exists in the tool bar, but nowhere else, I'm afraid. It's no big deal, but when I see cool stuff (like those convenient arrows beside the pads), I both want whatever it is, and wonder why whatever it is doesn't work for me. But again, thanks kindly. Cheers!
Cubase is far ahead than any other DAW
Hmm, great Tutorial. But what does bouncing it to itself mean and how do I do it?
Select the audio clip / go up to Audio in the menu / scroll down to bounce selection. The key command for it is also 'B'
Makes all sense
Thank you so much 🙏🫶🙏
Thx
Oh my god😱
thank you very much cooollll video
Awesome!
Fantastic video! Thanks!
Thanks for a great tips 🫡🤝
Im guessing you're on pro 13?
Yes
8:40 Useful but be careful, as it can easily sound artificial.
interesting stuff....thanx....and stop saying "it thinks"....🤫
Theres a reason Hans Zimmer and Alan Silvestri are Cubase users... its just the best all around DAW
Cubase Chord Pads ended up dismally disppointing me becuz for YEARSSS the software FORCES us to use chord VOICINGS of its own. It was so frustrating to have a software dictate to me which voicings I am FORCED to use to play the Eb Major chord. I could Not even REDUCE the notes in the chord or do ANYTHING i really wanted with Cubase' forced-voicings 🙄😒🤕🤕 after 3 years i finally had to give up using chord pads and go to Scaler (yeah . . . THIRD-party plugin JUST to be able to play my preferred VOICING of the Eb Major chord 🤕🙄🙄). Scaler also showed me some flames due to . . . you're Not gonna believe this: It cannot transpose MULTIPLE chords stored on its Chord Pads. You must transpose the chords ONE by ONE . . . the most MUNDANE and easy operation (transposing notes/chords) . . . is STILL Not possible in Scaler in June 2024 😁😂😂.
Have you tried to activate the assign from MIDI input option when defining the chord for the pad? You can play a particular chord voicing from a MIDI controller and the played voicing is what is used for the chord pad voicing.
The "Tempo Detection" is one of Cubase's best features, but why are so many using it to destry their music. The problem is that it's far too often followed by the "Set Definition from Tempo" nonsense. This is crazy!!!
This is what the manual has to say about Set Definition from Tempo. "The Set Definition from Tempo dialog allows you to set up freely recorded audio material to follow a specific tempo.", "You can adjust the tempo of freely recorded audio material to the project tempo." and "This is achieved by applying warping to the events". What this describes (and what happens) is, in practicality, hard quantising of audio. It warps the audio to a static tempo, and removes the tempo fluctuations that gives you music it's soul. Stay far away from this madness, unless you want to make emotionless robotic tone sequences. I'm not sure that I would even call it music.
"Set Definition from Tempo" should be renamed "Suck the life out of the music", because that's what it does!
No. You misunderstood the function. "Set Definition from Tempo" does literally nothing to your track, unless you change the tempo map afterwards! If you straighten it out completely, then the track might sound robotic, as you said. However, you don't have to make such a drastic change to the tempo map... It's entirely up to you 😉
@@valsolim That's not what the manual says. Please, read it again. Carefully! How does it work? "The Set Definition from Tempo dialog allows you to set up freely recorded audio material to follow a specific tempo.", "This is achieved by applying warping to the events". What you think "Warping to follow a specific tempo means"?
"you don't have to make such a drastic change to the tempo map". Wrong again! There is no strength parameter in the Set Definition from Tempo dialog dialog. It's all or nothing!
Listen to song with tempo fluctiations, before and after applying "Set Definition from Tempo". Do you hear any difference? If so, what's the difference?
@@svenisaksson3970 Not only have I read the manual carefully but I also use this function in almost every project 🙂I do not know what is wrong with your setup but after I apply "Set Definition from Tempo", there is no difference in playback. The difference starts to show when I manipulate the tempo map (if you have Musical mode enabled for the audio event).
"The Set Definition from Tempo dialog allows you to set up freely recorded audio material to follow a specific tempo.", "This is achieved by applying warping to the events"
Yes, that is what the manual says and that is true! However, when you only "Set Definition from Tempo" and do not change the tempo map, then the track follows the original tempo and, consequently, there is no change in playback.
@@valsolim You still don't try to explain what's being warped? If it's not the audio, then what? Also, what is it warped in relation to?
@@svenisaksson3970Cubase basically adds a grid to the audio. As long as that grid is the same as the project grid nothing gets changed. Once you change the project grid the audio will follow suit by means of time stretching (warping). If the new project grid is robotic, so will your audio's tempo. If you use a humanized grid, so will the audio.
I wish I would have known how much time I would have wasted trying to get this program to work and that you need to become a computer geek to record music.
No wonder the music industry is in shambles
This is mac studio
U took a very long process for creating harmonies . Just create a chord track and go to one tab and find generate harmonies and choose how many voices u need and boom ... Harmony voices will follow the chord track and scale itself . Bingo .. 😅
Lots of ways to do it inside of Cubase for sure, this just gives you a lot of control over your harmony choices.
Tu n’est pas musicien, pourquoi te mêle tu de ce qui ne te concerne pas ???
Top thing I wish I knew is the development Team sucks and takes forever to implement a new feature totally out of touch with their end user totally corporate software
Like implementing what?
You have to realize that Cubase is built upon a ton of legacy code. This makes it difficult adding new features without breaking something else. Pro Tools suffers from the same problem and neither Steinberg or Avid is as nimble as the Reaper devs.