Using Cubase Studio 5 - I am trying to enter drum notes into the drum editor by following a drum score sheet. The song is in 4/4 time, on a couple of bars the last beat needs to be divided into 6 equal divisions to add a ‘drum fill’ which includes snare, high tom and low tom.
So how do I divide the last beat into 6 divisions or the complete bar into 24 divisions I can’t find a suitable quantise value.
Well, you wouldn’t actually be changing the time-signature in this instance (it’s still 4/4, but subdivided into 16th triplets).
So, just set the Quantize value to 16th triplets. Don’t forget, you have the option, in the Drum Editor’s extended toolbar, to choose whether to use a Global quantize value, or individual, per drum.
No, but why would you need to? Just because Quantize (and its grid) is set to a particular value, doesn’t change the position of existing notes, unless you want it to. Simply select the notes for which you wish to apply the current Quantize setting.
at 6 times the tempo of the preceding bar. Of course you would then have to change the time sig of the preceeding bar to 3/4, and then change both the sig back to 4/4 and the tempo back to the original for the following bar.