I know I marked that previous topic as solved, but some VSTs suffer the same problem, where the pressed (or highlighted) notes / keys are hard to see.
So, I played and recorded something. Not sure what keys I pressed, but it sounded ok. Best method I found to tell which keys I pressed is to go inside my midi event and highlight a set of notes. They become “highlighted” on the vertical piano roll on the left.
Any way to make those highlights on the piano roll easier to see?
If not, is there an alternative method in Cubase for easily identifying which keys or chords I just recoded, so I can put my fingers on them again and continue, where I left off?
Example: I experiment by playing random chords and only some of them sound good (on their own or together with the following chords). I want to locate all the chords that sound good. I want to figure out where the keys, for those chords, are on my keyboard. That way I can keep experimenting, by playing chords that sound good and hopefully hit something that sounds even better.
So the challenge for me is to make Cubase give me feedback on, what exact notes I have to press again on my keyboard, to recreate a certain chord, that I just recorded.
here, selected MIDI are displayed in red on the piano roll no matter the colour of the part (Cubase 15.0.20 Win 11). Which Cubase version and OS are you on? I am not sure if there’s a preference setting, I haven’t changed anything.
After pasting the recorded part to the current position you could zoom into the piano roll: Hover over the left side of the piano roll until you see a 4-arrow icon. Left click with your mouse and hold: Drag your mouse to the right and you zoom in, to the left will zoom out. Up and down will move the piano roll (same applies to the In-Place Editor in the project window. Here, you can simply enlarge your track vertically and you’ll have a much bigger piano roll by nature).
Not sure what Retrospective Recording has to do with the question
Also, I find it best to use Ctrl+Shift+Scroll or the zoom in/out vertically hotkeys to zoom in/out the piano roll. The dragging to the left side seems to be broken for me, since there is no space to drag to - on the left side of the screen, that is.
I don’t know, maybe it’s just my setup - Win 10, high DPI or some other parameter - that does this.
Again, not sure how this connects to the topic. If I can clearly see the highlighted keys on the piano roll, which I now can thanks to @Johnny_Moneto then I see no need to have my midi notes next the the piano roll
Basically, I was trying to point at an alternative workflow that includes this very helpful Cubase feature.
Same idea as above: I was trying to come up with a workaround that doesn’t require pressing/highlighting keys at all.
However, you didn’t ask for that and your title was straightforward and clear - a method to improve visibility of selected keys. So, I was indeed off topic here, my bad!
