After trying to use Chord Track for the first time on Cubase Pro 11, I noticed I could not follow the tutorials I found online since after creating my Chord Track I am not able to grab and drop audio files on to my Chord Track.
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Did you watch tutorials for your version of Cubase? That feature is new for Cubase Pro 12.
Hi Steve, the drag and drop feature is a new feature for Ver. 12? Then that might be it. I’ll look for tutorials specifically for 11 like you mention.
I want to follow up on this one.
On Steinberg’s website, Audio-to-MIDI is available for Pro, Artist, and Elements of Cubase 12.
I tried using this feature as shown here. It won’t work. I drag an audio track to a blank Chord Track but it won’t let me drop.
All Youtube tutorials show this exact method and it works for them.
I have Cubase 12 LE AI Elements.
Cubase 12 LE AI Elements is the unfortunate name of the version but. There are in fact 3 different verisons: Cubase Elements, Cubase AI, and Cubase LE. If you acquired your Cubase as a bundled software you most likely have AI or LE. It might be that this particular feature is disabled in these bundled version, but I am not certain.
If you actually bought Cubase Elements: Does the chord detection work with a MIDI part (rather than audio)?
You should open the Steinberg Activation Manager and observe which license you have.
The function „Audio to MIDI chords“ is only available in Cubase Pro 12 , Cubase Artist 12, and Cubase Elements 12.
It is not available in Cubase AI 12 and Cubase LE 12 . You can compare the versions here:
Hello all,
As @Johnny_Moneto mentioned, the program “Cubase LE AI Elements 12” installed on my PC confused me. As per @steve’s suggestion, I learned from Activation Manager that I have specifically a Cubase LE license, which came bundled with my Audient audio interface hardware. @bobmusic’s provided link revealed that this is the most basic tier of Cubase available.
I can confirm with my Cubase that the drag-drop method won’t ever work as well as going Project > Chord Track > Chords to MIDI despite being selectable in the drop-down menu.
Thanks for everyone’s input in this discussion. Appreciate all your help!
Hi, same problem here. Cubase Artist 12 . Should be working with my version for sure, however following the tutorial doesn’t give the same results . Is there some setting we might have missed ?
CB 12 manual p.1111 says:
You can extract chords from audio events. This is useful if you have an audio file and want to
show its harmonic structure, and use this file as starting point for further experimenting.
PREREQUISITE
â—Ź You have added a chord track.
â—Ź On an audio track, you have added an audio event with audio material that can
be interpreted as chords, that is, with three or four different note pitches playing
simultaneously. The audio material should contain western music with 12 pitches per octave,
tuned in equal temperament.
PROCEDURE
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In the Project window, select an audio event on an audio track.
NOTE
You cannot use audio parts.
Do one of the following:
â—Ź Drag the audio event and drop it on the chord track.
â—Ź Right-click an audio event, and select Create Chord Events from the context menu.
â—Ź Select Project > Chord Track > Create Chord Events.
RESULT
â—Ź The chord events are added to the chord track. Depending on the length of the audio event,
this may take a while.
â—Ź The chord events that you created from audio events are indicated by a symbol in the upper
right corner.
â—Ź The created chord events match the positions and lengths of the corresponding chords in
the audio event.
â—Ź If the chord track already contained chord events, these are replaced within the position and
length of the audio event. Chord events outside that range will be kept
