Display Glitch: Polyphonic mode/Voicing for Drum staff Cubase 10.5

Chikitin · March 20, 2020, 2:58pm

Hi,

I am writing a percussion of a single staff where I need to have on different drum sound to stem up and/or down on drum staff. But It seems impossible to set the voices. I have set up my own drum map and expression maps.

Is it possible to do that? Any workarounds would be appreciated.

Edit: I edited the subject after working with TheMastero on this.

Maestro · March 21, 2020, 4:22pm

There seems to be a bug here. Or a display glitch?
(by the way, why is your time signature grey? Is it selected and intentional?)

Chikitin · March 22, 2020, 10:21am

Do you mind to try it? The time signature is greyed out because project layer is turned off. That doesn’t change anything. I tried to enter drums in different voices ( turned off my drum map), couldn’t enter any notes in layers 2,3, or 4.

Maestro · March 22, 2020, 10:49am

I had already tried, no problem here.
Could you start a new empty project and reproduce?

Chikitin · March 22, 2020, 11:36am

The issue is in Cubase 10.5. I tried in Cubase 10, it show the polyphonic staves!

BTY, What’s the use case of having drum staff in a key?

Maestro · March 22, 2020, 1:38pm

Again, no such problem here in 10.5.
Maybe an issue on Mac?
Probably a step by step procedure to reproduce could help determine.

Chikitin · March 22, 2020, 2:16pm

Not sure what else I can do.
I selected Go>Library (Hold option to reveal hidden library folder)>Preferences>Cubase 10.5 Drag this folder and any previous Cubase folders to the desktop.

Here is the step by step procedure in gif: drum-Staff — ImgBB

Thank you TheMaestro.

Maestro · March 22, 2020, 4:28pm

The Polyphonic window should never be empty!
I suppose there is something wrong with your Cubase configuration/installation.

I would try this first:
Start Cubase in Safe Mode
1- launch Cubase, when the splash screen appears, hold down Cmd+Shift+Alt
2- In the window that appears, check “Disable program preferences”
3- Click OK

Try the polyphonic mode

Chikitin · March 22, 2020, 6:32pm

I see. that is a display glitch. In safe mode the same, result.

Is it possible to have polyphonic staff have a single staff rather than two?

Maestro · March 22, 2020, 9:04pm

Sure, turn off voices 5 to 8 under Polyphonic settings (uncheck “On” column under Properties group for those voices). If you are able to see anything of course!

Chikitin · March 23, 2020, 12:34am

Thanks for the tip. I will do that. But, I really like to fix this. I created few drum maps and wanted to try them, but it seems I always have some stability issues.

Chikitin · March 24, 2020, 11:24am

Using the preset: “Optimize for two voices” did it.

Unfortunately it does not allow you to turn off the voices.

Run Cubase in safe mode ( plugin and preferences dissabled):

Convert a drum staff to polyphonic
it places a grand staff with Bass clef
Open the score setting and try to uncheck this voices. It’s nothing there to uncheck.

I suppose that is another bug on my side besides the display glitch, if I am not mistaken.