I have an issue here in the midi editor. It’s about the simple function of repeating a note event. When I duplicate or repeat a note event, whether I do it by dragging the event while I hold down Alt/Opt, or by selecting Edit>Functions>Duplicate, the note events are repeated one after the other, without any space in between. Consequently, the position of the duplicated notes is based only on the lenght of the note event.
Based in Cubase documentation, this could be fixed by doing the following :
Set the Snap On
Having the Snap set to “Grid”
Having the Quantise value defined to the aimed position
And by selecting the Bars+Beats time format.
I did all of the above, but doesn’t work. Any clue? What am I missing? It’s a behavior very strange since repeating note events without being able to position them on the right time makes the repeat function basically useless.
Your solution works and I do not need another one. But still, as you can see in the documentation, we shouldn’t have to use the selection tool prior to execute the duplication. Also, seems to me that repeating one note event after the other without taking account of the snap factor shouldn’t be the default behavior, since for most of the situations (bass riff, drums, strings playing staccato), the lenght of the note event has nothing to do with the desired position.
I see, now I know what you mean, thank you for sharing.
Sorry, English is not my first language. So I might not be precise in the text understanding, and your understanding might be precise. But what I can see…
To duplicate the selected note events, hold down Alt/Opt, and drag the note events to a new position.
If Snap is activated, it determines to positions to which you can copy notes.
To copy the selected note events and to place them behind the original, select Edit > and then Functions > and then Duplicate. If several note events are selected, all of them are copied as one unit, maintaining the relative distance between the note events.
To create a number of copies of the selected note events, select Edit > and then Functions > and then Repeat, specify the number, and click OK.
You can also press Alt/Opt, and drag the right edge of the note events to the right to create copies of the note events.
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So the Snap info is related to the 1st method:
To duplicate the selected note events, hold down Alt/Opt, and drag the note events to a new position.
This method expects you to drag the note events the very same way, as if you want to copy/move them. So you click to the centre of the note, not to the end. If you click to the end of the note (what you are doing), then you are taking the 4th option (but there is no Snap mentioned):
To duplicate the selected note events, hold down Alt/Opt, and drag the note events to a new position.
This is my understanding of the manual (if I know, how does it work).
It would be great if the selection could be resized to a single note or group of notes, rather than forced to fit the entire vertical content as allowed in Cubase. I’ve discovered that this is possible in Logic Pro.
In the Key Editor you can activate the Time Handles as you can see in the screenshot below.
In the other screenshots you can see how you can select only some notes and how the highlighted area is duplicated. In addition, I point out that the time handles also allow the stretching or compression of the midi execution.
It is certainly one of the many conveniences that it would be nice to see in Cubase’s key editor and that I admit that I often miss it.
No no, my friend.
Imagine I have chords in a midi part and I only want to duplicate the base notes with the Range Tool - impossible in Cubase. I need to revert back to the Object Selection Tool and take care of the pauses in between the last and first note myself.
Imagine I have drums in a midi part. I want to duplicate only the hihats. Impossible with the Range Tool.
