Cubase Posts

Video Tutorial: Using key switches to add articulation
The earliest sample-based instruments tended to have one sample for each note, leading to a “machine gun” effect with rapid retriggering. The drum part for

Video Tutorial: Match Quantise
It’s one thing to tighten up the timing of a recorded part, be it MIDI or audio, but there’s no guarantee that it will be

Video Tutorial: Iterative Quantise and Delete Overlaps
For those of us whose keyboard skills are not as complete as Rick Wakeman’s, recording MIDI from a keyboard can be a humbling experience when

Video Tutorial: Introduction to the Logical Editor, Part 2
One of the first uses I had for the Logical Editor was to try to put some dynamics into drum patterns I had written into

Video Tutorial: Introduction to the Logical Editor, Part 1
The Logical Editor in Cubase is one of the more baffling features and yet is also one of the most powerful. Stemming from Cubase’s origins

Video Tutorial: Using EZKeys with Chord Track
EZKeys from Toontrack is a powerful composition and performance tool in its own right and shares a number of features with Chord Track, in terms

Video Tutorial: Recording MIDI outputs from VSTi’s
You can alter the voicings that the Chord Track in Cubase uses when it generates chords, but any movement in the part generated comes from

Video Tutorial: Using Media Bay content with Chord Track
Out of the box, Cubase comes with the Media Bay pre-populated with a stack of loops and samples. Some of these loops are provided in

Video Tutorial: Adding content into Cubase’s Media Bay
Media Bay is one of those features that some people will never use, some will use occasionally and some will come to rely on. It’s