Finally I got Cubase 6 installed and haven’t been playing around with it yesterday and all day today so far Have to say it’s rock solid!! Not one issue in any project I opened thus far…
Question: Is there a way to select a midi note and create a chord from it?
I was messing around with a midi piano part I wrote and thought I’d draw the chords notes for the chorus to save me some time. Then I thought, surely there is a way to create a chord from the note thinking I could right click/insert/full chord/major 7th and done… But no. Then had a go at the logical editor and it doesn’t seem to do it either.
I don’t think the chorder plugin does this simply either… is it possible any other way?
On second thought, you can use the logical editor to add notes to a chord, and with key commands and macros it can be a one keystroke affair, potentially.
So, I attached several Logical Editor presets that will add an interval to the selected note.
Add dim. 5th up
Add maj 3rd up
Add minor 3rd up
Add minor 7th up
Add perfect 5th up
Once these are moved to your Logical Editor preset folder they will appear in the Key Commands dialog.
This code snippet is meant to be inserted into the macros section of the Key Commands.xml file, just be careful you follow the xml formatting and nesting in there. Or to avoid fiddling in there, simply create the macro in the Key Commands dialog, then create a key command for it.
Yes, the OP mentioned it in his post. That plugin does what it says, but is maybe overkill for simply building chords. I think it’s designed for live playing.
Plus, in order to have the actual notes in the project instead of having the note-on trigger other notes in the chord you have to use merge midi in loop. My idea comes from a notation or key edit kind of mindset.