I created a “custom layout” to set up the score of a song in C14.
Now I need to do the same with another song, quite similar in terms of instruments and arrangement.
So I want to use the same custom layout, but I’m not able to figure out how I can achieve that task.
Or, more generally, how to make a custom layout available for use in projects other from the one in which it was created and configured.
It’s probably very simple (also because it’s a quite predictable need), but even consulting the user manual I wasn’t been able to find any instructions on how to do this.
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There is indeed no way to achieve that right now, aside from possibly saving the project file as template (I haven’t tried that though admittedly).
We’ve got a task on our roadmap to improve this type of workflow in a future version.
Yes some kind of template/preset system is a HUGE feature ask from me as well.
Thanks Stefan for your answer.
I am really quite surprised in learning that the developers didn’t foresee the need for such an obvious (to say the least) “workflow”, especially considering the number of options that can (and must) be set when creating and optimising a profile!
I had no hesitation in assuming that the problem was with me, with my poor ability to use the program.
Anyway, while waiting for the mentioned “future version” (which I hope will be an update to C14), I would like to know exactly how, in the opinion of Cubase designers and developers, a user should currently act to be able to use, in a C14 project, a score custom profile already created in another C14 project, without having to redo (for each project!) all the creation and setup operations from scratch.
The Dorico system that Cubase 14 Score Editor is based on doesn’t quite have this capability either, although it doesn’t really need to have it due to the way a few things work differently.
I would have expected that most people would work with Cubase 14 Score Editor by making a Cubase project template that was already set up the way you wanted with the Score Editor and using that to make new projects. However, that obviously doesn’t help much when you’re taking an old project and wanting to update it by adding a score in the new Score Editor.
I understand that.
And it’s precisely because in Dorico “a few things work differently” that perhaps the Cubase developers, well knowing the needs and habits of most Cubase users, could (or should?) have thought of the above mentioned “workflow”.
Anyway, at this point, when you need to take old projects and add scores in C14, given the impossibility of proceeding in the simplest way, perhaps you could get around the obstacle by doing all the work (create custom layouts, set options, and so on) in one project and then duplicating it (“save as”), deleting in the new file all the MIDI parts and inserting (copy/paste) those from another project, possibly adapting the instruments used.
Such a path, undoubtedly much more complex and tortuous than the one most users would expect, could be maybe more practicable than going through, in each project, the creation and configuration of the custom profile (always the same), including the “Settings” command with its 10 tabs and 24 groups of options.