Articulations seem to be triggering on their own

Cubase
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Hi,
I’m using the Orchestral template and created a loop with the violins. I’ve tried changing the articulation in the GUI, but it kept resetting to legato when the loop restarts.

  • After looking at the keyboard on the GUI, I can see that legato is latched.

  • Checking the piano roll, I see no note assigned, so I add one for a different articulation, but at the end of the loop, it ignores the note in the piano roll and goes back to legato.

  • If I open the expression map setup and select an articulation, it behaves the same way.

I seem to be looking in the wrong place.
Any Ideas?

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AI says that this is a bug and a common workaround is to add an empty articulation to the top of the list in the expression map setup.
Works so far…

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I’m pretty sure this isn’t a bug at all, but instead it is expected behavior. Because you don’t have any entries in any of the slots, it knows that it is supposed to start with the default slot active. You don’t have any articulation entries in any of the lanes to go against this.

What is the reason you find this behaviour problematic? Personally if I had a track that was supposed to start with legato and then go to something else, I would find it a bug if it worked the other way around, where the beginning that was supposed to be legato played with the last articulation instead.

It also looks to me like that “Orchestral Template” is using the old Cubase 14 maps, so I wonder if it hasn’t been updated for Cubase 15.

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I guess I’ll try to read the docs on it (I can’t lie, I don’t like the web manual for Cubase as easy as it is, it’s easy to read the wrong material). I don’t even know what these slots you speak of are :slight_smile:

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I wouldn’t know, since I got Cubase for the first time in decades, last week.