Everytime I watch your videos, I already know I will learn some neat things about working with Cubase. Thanks so much for your great help, best Cubase Channel in my opinion :)

Dear Dom! I am a young film composer from the alpine country of Austria. I have received so many useful and time-saving tips from you about Cubase that I would like to thank you not only with a subscription and likes, but also directly with you personally: Thank you very much for all your excellent explanations on the countless topics! You save us artists so much time in dealing with Cubase and the plugins, which we can use for our actual work => 1000000 x thanks! Best regards, Mario Dengler

@DomSigalas

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind words Mario! Glad the videos are useful!!!

@thej8243

Жыл бұрын

@@DomSigalas I have a sincere question for you: Is it possible to automate the "MIDI Mute" button that is responsible for notes being read on the arranger page with Cubase? With all the MIDI capabilities that Cubase has, I sure hope so, because I'm in the market for a new DAW. I have used Cubase before, but several things have been upgraded since I last used it. I've been using Studio One, but lately I seem to have outgrown it. I'm asking about "MIDI Mute" button automation because I'm a multi-instrumentalist, but my favorite instrument is organ. At home I use a keyboard z-stand and easily split and layer different instruments across my three keyboards. For my keyboard stack, I keep my 64 note keyboard on top, my 88 note keyboard below that, and my 17 note organ style foot pedal keyboard on the floor. Being an organist and also having dexterity on several instruments, I can play entire MIDI arrangements, anything I can think of, on-the-fly using my "virtual organ" setup. After recording the initial instrumentation I've played using my "Virtual Organ" setup, I then go back and flesh out the music by adding live lead/rhythm/guitar(s), bass guitar, drums, saxophone, or whatever else fits the arrangement. I'll usually start with a click track, get a groove going, and work out a few changes. Once I'm in the groove, I'm ready to record. The problem I'm having is that I tend to hear everything at once. So, the hardest thing for me is deciding what order to arrange the changes in. This is the part in Studio One that takes me "out of my zone" and instantly dries up any creative juices that I may have had flowing. In Studio One arranging means using "the (dreaded slow-motion) mouse" and moving things around slowly and meticulously, sometimes note by note to ensure the transitions are smooth. Using "the (dreaded slow-motion) mouse", I tend to have already forgotten what order I want to play the different instruments and changes in. If it was possible to automate the "MIDI Mute" button, I could arrange on the fly, just like I recorded the instrumentation, with no down-time! So, I need to be sure the next DAW I decide to invest my money in includes the ability to automate the "MIDI Mute" Button for quick and easy MIDI sequence editing/arrangement on the fly. You might ask, "Why do I need the ability to automate the "MIDI Mute" button? Why isn't being able to automate the "Audio Mute" button on most DAW mixers good enough. Well, the "MIDI Mute" button actually controls when MIDI notation is read. So, being able to automate it amounts to controlling the rhythmic phrasing of the instrument being played; while "Audio Mute" amounts to a sound engineer cutting your microphone on and off as musically as they can. It's not a big deal until you consider the fact that most VST instrument release times can be extended. Most present day VST instruments also come with their own built in reverb and delay effects, especially software emulations of boutique hardware, which tends to impart a specific sonic character that is desirable over factory effects. Those things should not be cut off by a sound engineer, unless the style of music necessitates glitch or stutter effects. I have decided to share a video as an example of just how much time is saved by having the ability to automate the MIDI Mute button, instead of traditional copy/paste. The video starts by showing the ease of use differences inherent of "MIDI Mute" VS "Audio Mute", with time stamps in the "Show More" section below the video, but real time 1-take actual use of the MIDI Mute Workflow starts at 00:01:55. MIDI Mute V.S. Audio Mute Time Stamps: 00:00:00 MIDI Mute of Kick [Example 1A - Drums] 00:00:15 Audio Mute of Kick [Example 1B - Drums] 00:00:40 MIDI Mute of Strings [Example 2A - Strings] 00:01:00 Audio Mute of Strings [Example 2B - Strings] 00:01:27 MIDI Mute of Bass [Example 3A - Bass] 00:01:44 Audio Mute of Bass [Example 3B - Bass] 00:01:55 MIDI Mute Workflow [Example 4 MIDI Mute Workflow In Action] So, does Steinberg Cubase offer MIDI Mute automation? If so, please let me know by posting a video of this workflow in action. You'll have at least one new customer if it does. Thank you for your time! kzread.info/dash/bejne/gYOmt81miJjgp7g.html

This is very useful. I made a few different CC views and assigned them to my Stream Deck for easy switching. But what would make Cubase more powerful and that a LOT of DAWs can do is the ability to edit the CC data of multiple tracks at once without having to resort to tricks like ghost copying events with option+shift or by using MIDI sends. Just draw in CC1 for say, all the harmony in the strings, once and not having to copy it from violins to violas to cellos, etc. It makes editing so much time consuming.

Awesome as always, Dom. I've been using Cubase for years and had no idea about this. Thanks a million!

Every time I think I know enough in Cubase Dom makes a video and teaches me more. Great work as usual!

would like to see more Midi specials! Cubase has so many great functions in this area... ❤

Awesome as always, Dom! Thanks a lot for sharing your experience and knowledge with the community. And please keep showing us the hidden gems in Cubase

Good job Dom. I found out about this feature a couple of days ago and as i work with mostly classical instruments and scores, I assigned the Key commands to the Velocity and the Atriculations/Dynamics Lanes. My Key commands are Alt+Num 4 (Velocity), Alt+Num 5 (Art./Dyn.), Alt+Num 6 (Both).

Very helpful! Love your energy too

the Power always be with you Dom🤩

After learning so much from your very perfect made videos, I just want to thank you very much. I like to see how you explain and work with knowledge and fun. It inspires me! Thx a lot!

Great VIdeo! As always Dom showing the tricks and secrets from this amazing DAW. Best regards from Brazil! God bless you!

Ohhhhh snap this is super helpful, I don’t know how this has eluded me, thanks for this one!

Awesome feature, thanks for sharing, Dom! I love working in Cubase! Great tips! 👍👍👍

Thanks a lot for this another tip Dom! Continue like this ;) . We'll continue to follow you. Good job again!

This is great! Thanks Dom!

Thanks for this, I didn't know about the presets. Nice. I also like that Cubase will let you take the controller data out of the MIDI clips themselves and make them tracks in the arranger window. I really like to work that way when composing with sample libraries because then you can copy and paste note data but go in and record controller data in a separate pass, but the control data won't repeat over and over again, like it would if you copied and pasted with just the MIDI clips.

@HammyHavoc

Жыл бұрын

Not a Cubendo user, but from what I've observed, can you not unlink your copy-pasted clips/events to no longer be a "shared event", thus not duplicating the controller data? Currently kicking the tyres from afar, so I may be wrong.

@rbingraham

Жыл бұрын

@@HammyHavoc when you copy a clip they are not linked together unless you group them. So yes you can do that. But I vastly prefer to have controller automation appear as a dedicated lane in the main arrangement window. Just my preference but you can work either way.

Didn't know all THIS was available! Thanks!!

Great video as always. I've been looking for a way to control the filter of my synth, i guess it must be in there as well? Cant wait to crank up Cubase and go explore.

That is supercool! I've always been wasting so much time moving between the different CCs instead of thinking to show them all together. Thanks@

Your videos are amazing and helping me as a hobby composer. Thanks a lot for that. 🤗🤗👍👍

After one year using Cubase, I couldn't even imagine about this beauty!

I knew the feature (saving midi lanes selection presets and calling them), but I did not know only cubase had it. The other thing I really like is that when I move in time a selection of notes, the modifiers also are moved, which is not obvious because they are not related in the midi format, so cubase is actually doing the job of associating the modifiers to the note. But maybe I do not know the midi format that well and they are actually linked, because when I play many notes on the piano, I can't think of a way to rebuild the associations; but let me know about it Dom.

did not know have to look in to it now thanks for shearing Dom

thanks, it actually let me through so i could download it.

Wow, very useful - many thanks!

I haven't used a DAW that doesn't have all this. I originally used Cubase from Commodore (very first) to Atari ST to Falcon then Mac/PC but then Reason came along and i thing its midi implication and speed plus players are better today

I remember the first video from you was that neat super saw synth in Cubase :)

You're a godsend, Dom. Thank you, once again!

Very good point, nice use of the Streamdeck as well. What I'd love to see is a way of controlling any plugin parameter with any other plugin parameter. I'm on the look out for a cross-DAW way of doing it.

And of course ‘next level’ in Cubase is having all this cc information as automation lanes in the project window where you can edit them with even more detail, especially using quick controls!

@HammyHavoc

Жыл бұрын

Not a Cubendo user, but can you elaborate a little more on what you mean by "even more detail"? More features, or size/scale of the UI? Or both? Just trying to see how it handles MIDI differently to other DAWs.

@simonslee73

Жыл бұрын

@@HammyHavoc sure, yes not really more features, but I find it much easier to manage CC data in the automation lanes in the project window. Drawing curves and using the drawing tools is easier with resizing, you have the visibility functions like ‘show all automation’ (you can set up template views for this’, I just prefer it rather than squeezed into the midi editing windows

Yeah knew about it, got the same kinds of presets as well :D but it's super useful. Although didn't know about the "show all used cc automation" as a keyboard shortcut. Gotta add that to my library of shortcuts. Great video as usual

WHOA! I had no idea about the CTRL+ALT+C feature! And to be able to use it with my 'lil Stream Deck Mini! 😲

Preset lanes, and stream deck. How cool is that? Thanks Dom to give me a detail that i have missed (the preset lanes...). Very useful!

As always you are the best Dom, very useful Thank you very much 👌👌

Thanks Dom, great video! Got a stream deck after this video.

You are the best Dom!!!

Hello ! I don't have a stream deck so I don't know if I can do that part of the trick, but all of the rest is available in Reaper too, in some other forms, but it's pretty much the same thing :) And yes, it's so pawerful ! In my case I use that for orchestral music, and the MIDI editor is really good too :) Reaper often takes advantages of different DAWs and combine all together, because of the open source code type of software :) (I hope my english is correct ! 😅) Thanks for your work ! Great composition to you ! 😎(or "have" a great composition ? 🤔)

yep Dom, studio one does this also,they also updated the macro bars for different music styles,cheers m8

Using Cubase since the Atari one but found this tip only a few month ago ! Very cool tip.

@InnerSyncMusic

Жыл бұрын

What is Atari?

@mickaellacoste3686

Жыл бұрын

@@InnerSyncMusic kzread.info/dash/bejne/i4Wq0smqdc3Whrw.html

dear dom thank you so much .

Hiya Dom!! Lovely to see you in the flesh at last and chat at Synthfest previous Sat (and Luke of course), nice MODX+ demo's!!! Always helpful Cubase tips from you, even though I've been using it since v3(!)... 😎👍🎹🎶🍻

@DomSigalas

Жыл бұрын

Hey man! Who were you? I am trying to connect the dots between the person- KZread username hahaha 😂

@theaudioeng

Жыл бұрын

@@DomSigalas Yep, the audio eng Dom. I had my infamous black Synthex Tee on, sky blue back pack. Came over to you just after noon time! 😉👍

@DomSigalas

Жыл бұрын

@@theaudioeng aaaah so good to see you there! ❤️ great show right?

There is a feature I would like so much, it's SQL queries on midi notes, eg., filter, select, grouping etc so I can see when I have notes with velocity above 126 for instance. Chords and tonaity coloring would be also very interesting; for instance I could see regions in Cm or Cm and EM in blue, and F#m in red or something like that, because it would really helping to see musical regions.

@HowlingUlf

Жыл бұрын

You know about the Logical Editor, the original MIDI one. That's as close you'd get in Cubase for SQL. You get criteria for selecting and transforming notes and controllers. You can also extract the notes to a new tracks/parts that you can colorize and then you can display the notes in any Key Editor with the color of the part. Select all the colored parts and open them in an editor and you're in rainbow land. There are also Key Commands for jumping to next and previous parts and if you locked the editor to only edit the selected part you can move back and fotth in one part at a time and move the notes around to your liking without e.g. jumping from the lead notes to the chord notes, since only the lead notes are editable. That's Cubase!

@mrdali67

Жыл бұрын

@@HowlingUlf List edit (grid edit - Atari) + Logical Edit is what makes Cubase King of midi. Its really usefull as you in list edit can also see key off velocity if you have synths that responds to this. So easy to fast put in eg a drum part, and use a logical preset to let it live. And if you are a real midi pro you can put sysex commands directly in list edit, which is really nice if you have older synths that often had hidden edit options that were only available as sysex commands, like the Roland GS compatible synths that were ony preset sounds ootb, but opened up as an almost full blown synth with adsr with nrpn commands and sysex.

I recently saw this in another video of you, in less detail. "12 midi tips in Cubase" or something. Excellent info. Thx Dom.

Dom? you are amazin! Sometime your quick tips EXTREMELY useful! Thank's !

That's going to be a godsend, thanks dude. Now I need to figure out how to get Cubase's MIDI editor to respond like Bitwig's, which is great for editing.

Thank you! It's going to save me a lot of time!

Wooooow nice trick !

Still working as of today, ty!

Nice, I agree that is a nice set of features that cubase has, I have also been using it for a while, I hope they make an update though, many of us have multiple monitors these days, so it would be great if the midi data lanes could also be opened in it's own window and also allow us to make a midi data lane as big as we like, the height limit can be frustrating, that would be great.

@HammyHavoc

Жыл бұрын

Have you mentioned this to Steinberg on their forum? They seem very welcoming to feedback and feature requests.

I've had the exact same StreamDeck-based method for the CC lanes for a year now, and it's been an amazing time-saver! 💪✨ - Eero

Hey dom,i love your channel and appreciate all of your content. I have to ask, you work with a lot of video compositions yet i haven’t seen you use nuendo, do you do you video compositions only using cubase? Thank you for all your great and informative videos. They have been “instrumental” to my learning/staying up to date with audio and cubase in general.

@mgmthegrand

Жыл бұрын

Great question!

Thank u for all your videos.i would love to see a video about your personal macros.

Yes Dom..Cubase is the Best DAW for MIDI programming... & HELL YES - Only you reveal these top notch best practices...🤓👍👍🥇

Awesome

Thanks, Dom for the tip! Extremely useful. Why don't you make a complete course on Cubase, advanced, of course, you have so much knowledge about Cubase, it will be a pity not to share it, so we can learn as well :)

@HammyHavoc

Жыл бұрын

As someone looking to jump ship to Cubendo, this is easily worth a few hundred bucks to me.

The new track is epic! Love it!

@DomSigalas

Жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend!

I use both cubase and studio one .. Cubase use to have the best midi editor but after trying studio one 5 for almost a year.. I dont think cubase is the best at editing midi.i will point out just two reason what studio one does better in editing midi that alone is a game changer for me ..1.. In studio one you can see all the useful midi parameter in tab (horizontal view) very useful for midi workflow ..2.Sound Variation in studio one is something every daw should have.. Example ..Select multiple note right click and select sustain,pitch bend,slide etc and it does that.. Cubase really need this feature if it want to be at the top ..

That's a great tip. I have to buy stream deck for pc. Does it change the assigned commands when you switch between workspaces or editors in Cubase?

Hey Dom! Im cubase user i love cubase but honestly i think the best midi piano roll without dough is the Fl studio one, did you ever give it a try? Whats your opinion on it? I also mix fl studio and cubase because both can be connected. Send you big hugs! From Puerto Rico

I legit never knew this trick. You've schooled me today Dom.

creating those presets, whaauw,.. great trick, thanks!

8:13 I mean Hans Zimmer himself says Cubase is his poison

And of course, Awesome as always, Dom ! One of my other héros is Hans Zimmer. He uses a touch screen for all the most commun fonctions of Cubase in lieu of drop down menus, greatly accelerating his workflow. Any idea of his setup ? Thank you for a great channel !

@braunhausmedia

Жыл бұрын

TouchOSC

@HammyHavoc

Жыл бұрын

@@braunhausmedia Hans says it is a custom system by Mark Wherry, who also works at RCP.

hey I had a question bro, do you think the shadows hills compressor would work good as a parallel compressor? for drums?

Hi Dom! I love your videos, if you can, Could you make a video about the Midi Mapping Assistance for surface? Thank you in advance! Great video. I didn't knew this and it's really usefull for me since I work with midi every day!

Thanks a lot Dom, but how will that apply to an Ipad and Cubasis 3.6.1? Feliz Navidad.

Great tutorial as usual! My question is for a simple thing you did in the very beginning. Is there a shortcut for opening the MIDI editor full screen? Not seeing one, I created one, but it only opens it. It doesn't close it. If there isn't already a shortcut that I'm overlooking, how do I get mine to both open and close the editor?

@DomSigalas

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I created one - I have Control-Enter for mine :)

@Ravez77

Жыл бұрын

it's called Open/Close Editor under Editors folder in key commands

@Bezowinz

Жыл бұрын

@@Ravez77 not sure what I did before, but it wasn't this. Thanks!

There is a stream deck plugin for cubase That being said I haven't been able to set it up in cubase pro 12 yet as they redesigned a lot of the menus and I can't find the option that I need

Cubase is such a deep world

Another excellent video as always. Couldn't help notice the shirt though. Hal? 2001?

@DomSigalas

Жыл бұрын

Spot on!

How do we pan left and right e.g on 808

greetings Dom! I have a question if it's not a problem... I have an Arturia Keylab 61 essential midi controller. The problem is that I don't know how to set the controls to record the cc control data inside the midi editor...expression, volume, ..etc...I don't know how and where to set it up in Cubase. If you can show it sometime, I would be very grateful!! By all means, thank you in advance and God bless you!!! 😇🙏❤

Thanks for that amazing tips If you tell me how can I assign that shortcut to my MIDI controller It’ll be helpful. Because I don’t Have Stream Deck Thanks Dom.

@DomSigalas

Жыл бұрын

Check my video about the midi remote in Cubase 12 :)

@MrAmeerGado

Жыл бұрын

@@DomSigalas Thanks Dom :)

That’s a statement, nothing beats Cubase 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

Hello! I know your really good with Cubase, so I wanted to ask you about a problem I've been having. I got Cubase Artist 12 a few months ago, and in the past week, the midi editor's measure numbers and quantization no longer aligns with the main project view. Is their some setting I accidentally switched on or off that would fix this?

Hey Dom, big fan here. Thank you so much for the info, is this the Elgato Stream Deck XL? By the way is it true, you're Greek? (Just in case you are καλημέρα!)

Just wondering have you did one on how to setup vocoder from scratch . Modx . And once setup how do save it .

Dom, I posted on forum but did not receive an answer yet. I record midi on an instrument track. Next, I engage write and record my expression cc. When I do that, I end up with 2 controller expression tracks. (in the track view) They appear to be dublicates but one says Replace 1 part range. No idea what this is, or how to get rid of except to delete it. Any information why this happens? Also, is it better to use controllers in the track view so you can copy to other instruments? (strings for instance). Can you also do that in the Midi Editor. Thanks for a great and informative channel.

I haven’t used cubase for a long time. So i just bought cubase pro 12 as it seems to be better suited to linear recording than ableton. Do you recommend a course?

🔉🔥

Hi Dom! I was a little confused.. Were you routing the midi, or, simply viewing the midi controller information. Thanks

Hey Dom, with interest i followed your video about the super midi tool, which i will integrate in my workflow. But there is another question about MIDI Controllers. What`s about exprssion maps? Are you working with those controllers? In case of YES a short video about would be fine, in case NO why not? If you are working with orchestra libraries as VSL or Cinesamples isn`t it a way for changing articulations in a more visible way than keysitches within the key-editor? Greetings from Vienna, Austria

I don't use Cubase but, it is very useful information - Cheers!

Dear Dom, how exactly can record midi from Kontakt with midi patterns from Library's?

Did you ever use Digital Performer ?

Hi Dom: I would like to know how to make the name of each note appear on the midi notes screen, I must be the only Cubase user who cannot configure it haha ​​Thanks

Something that is confusing me about Cubase is that I don't know when to use MIDI CCs vs automation. Logic treats them as the same thing, but Cubase doesn't, and it seems like there are situations where they weirdly clash and don't play nicely together. For example, my SSL UF1 won't record MIDI CC data into Cubase, even when I put it into MIDI CC mode, but it will record automation data into Cubase.

Have you seen the Avid Control App for Cubase. Could this be a free alternative to Stream Deck? I would love to hear your views. Or even a review if you have time.

Nice! What pad-sound are you using in the outro music ?

@DomSigalas

Жыл бұрын

It's layered: OB6, Juno106, Reface DX :)

@ziebanez

Жыл бұрын

@@DomSigalas Thanks 😊

Can we control midi with a group channel? Like we do audio

how do you get different colors on notes mine are all the same ?!

I do have to say - cubase is very powerfull.. and youre right - in some parts it tha master - but if it would be done in a better more easy way - you just even doesnt have to do all that stuff..

If only VST parameters appeared in that lower section - Shame it's MIDI CC only. :(

Hi Dom Cuabse user here , what is the key commend for this featre? ctrl+alt C Did not work for me

Did you change your voiceover vocal chain, EQ setting, or plugin? I've watched a lot of your content but this video has a different EQ curve than your other videos. A bit brighter. It's actually an improvement. What changed?

@DomSigalas

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm I am still using the Neve Portico. Could be that I place the Sennheiser 416 a bit closer :)

If at this point some one can't see how cool Cubase Pro is I really don't know what to say....👊🏽

Key commands as one touch are key

What other MIDI advantages does Cubase offer specifically to cinematic/film composers? I hate to be, “that guy” but you can do all this with Reaper’s Cycle actions. I have buttons in the Piano Roll menu assigned to toggle specific CC lanes (cc64, cc11, 1, Pitch…etc), a key-shortcut assigned to toggle all in-use lanes, and buttons assigned to combinations (cc1/Pitch) and (cc1/cc11/cc58). So this feature isn’t an incentive for me to switch * * HOWEVER * * I DO see that nearly all composers use Cubase and I’m trying to find out why. I obviously have no desire to learn a new DAW, but I would switch if it offered an advantage. Reaper is amazing and I have yet to hear of it’s equal in stability/functionality/CPU-efficiency. BUT it comes in dead last in the looks department.The initial configuration is no fun either but I’ve obviously overcome that. Pls tell us more about Cubase’s MIDI functionality… Great video…I love your content!

Great information, thanks! Now, if only someone would come and program my StreamDeck… Perhaps an idea for a video?