I already posted a screenshot above, with colors that work for me.
Here are the settings:
Color scheme
Editor background:
Editor grid lines:
Editor cycle region:
Some suggestions:
- In the lower edit panel there are horizontal bars that display the extent of a midi event. Donāt look for the midi event shading - look for the contrasting horizontal bars. They are clearly visible except for an extremely narrow range of colour and brightness settings (light and dark areas shown below with bars visible throughout).
- If one is working in the lower panel the main track can be displayed immediately above it, with a view of the extent of the midi event like this:
- If one opens a separate Key Editor window it contains a separate band for the specific purpose of showing the midi events beginning and ends, like this (in orange):
For me, the āhorizontal bars that display the extent of a midi eventā are nowhere near enough contrast to quickly, cleanly, identify the selected midi part in the key editor. No matter which way I go, light or dark, Iām having to crane my face toward my screen to see the beginning of the midi part. Thatās not an improvement!
I suspect I speak for all the others in this thread (and the other threads) complaining about this. What we would like is the option to restore the original ādarker background for the midi eventā functionality, even if itās an option in preferences, if that could be possible. If this is an āupgradeā or ābug fix,ā I am baffled as to what needed fixing. Again I think I speak for all of us.
On a positive note, the folder-groups make this update a winner even with this issue and I do not plan to roll back. Bravo on giving us those folder-groups! Iām already happily using them. But this key-editor midi-part visibility issue is a real bummer, especially for older eyes. (Please Steinberg, consider giving us an option to restore the old contrast in preferences!)
This looks like you donāt have your loop/cycle on? If so, the ruler should be purple (default color for the ruler). The problem only occurs where the loop-cycle is set (area under the purple ruler). The contrast is still normal wherever the loop cycle is not active. Apologies if I am misunderstanding you here.
Dumb question - what does a person do with being able to identify the beginning and end of a midi event in the lower panel editor? What purpose does that serve and what action do you take based on this information?
all good. maybe i explained poorly. my point was, that regardless if loop/cycle was on, that before the update, the piano roll was left untouched. no shading. ONLY shading for the midi event.
Not a dumb question. I need to know where the event begins and ends, so I can place the first and last note without having to put my face up to the screen to make sure Iām within the midi part (and not just somewhere randomly in the key editor). It helps keep me oriented on my midi part in total, especially when writing a complex part with an intense pattern or with very short notes (16th or 32nd notes) or a unique note pattern (like triplets). Without the background contrast, itās just harder to know where I am in the midi.
also, for what itās worth, even if i dont use the loop function which i hardly ever do, unless doing game music, i like to have my locators at the start and end of a cue.
Iām curious how you work without the loop function. What type of music do you typically do? (I do almost entirely game music, and VGM remixes!) I need the loop function to work in sections on my tracks.
writing for film and tv. But yes, loop function is used when i do game music.
This change really annoys me as well. Took me a while to figure out what was different, but yes prior to the 15.0.2 update, and in previous versions of Cubase the highlight from the locaters could only be seen on the transport bar in the MIDI/piano roll. Now the highlight covers the whole piano roll which makes it really difficult to see where the midi clip starts and ends. It was absolutely fine the way it was before and there was no reason to change it. So frustrating