Hi I’m on C13 pro ( also using C14 trial vesion). On C13 pro I very often use Score/ Function/ Explode function for vocals, ochestral music etc. Please let me know how to do the same on C14 pro. Thank you very much.
Explode the Chords in Cubase 14
watch this video from the Digital Audio Manual.
Thank you @andy1324 for your answer, I’ve alredy watched this video .it is very useful for three part music but very often I write two part music for vocals, brasses etc and i don’t know how to separate tracks on C14. OK it is possible to do it in the lower zone’s editor highlighting notes (channel 1 - 2) then disolve /part separate channels but it’s very time consuming. C14 pro is amazing ,the new score editor is fantastic but this function is missing or I haven’t find the solution yet.
I generally keep three versions of Cubase on my Mac. Some older projects can be ‘difficult’ so I work on them in an older version.
Why don’t you just use the explode option in 13, import your chords, save the project, explode and then import the necessary midi tracks back into 14?
The Score/Function/Explode function is indeed not available in the Cubase 14 Score Editor anymore. We’ll consider how we can bring this back in future.
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nice fuction be killed，so sad
If I can weigh in on this one, in orchestral music we would greatly benefit from an option to explode selected notes onto following, adjacent tracks. This is very useful when, for example, mocking up for a midi coming from a notation program where you wrote in condensed state (I know this is not your notation program’s main workflow, but it can be even in that program, hehe).
Say you write a chord in a Flute 1 track that is followed by 2 more Flute tracks, 2 and 3. It would awesome to be able to open the key editor, select the chord, and have a command that puts 2nd and 3rd notes from the top in the two next tracks, which in this case are Flute 2 and 3. If not enough tracks are available, then it will create the missing ones, just like when dropping multiple audio files and choosing “Different Tracks” as the target.
Even when we had Explode in Score editor, it was still a workaround for a purely MIDI workflow
If we want to bring this even further, it would be awesome to also have the option to directly step-input chords in multiple tracks, leveraging the amazing new Key Editor visibility infrastructure introduced in C13. This would also be a little step in aligning note-input logic to Dorico’s one, which allows that.
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Nice; hoping you can find a good way…
Bummer. As primarily a Dorico user, I was very excited when I learned that the new Cubase score editor was adopted from Dorico; however I would say two tools I use all day long are explode & reduce. They’re so helpful, explode in particular when working out piano sketches or string arrangements (on a single track), to then explode each voice on individual tracks and quickly orchestrate from there. I really hope to see this return soon – thank you!
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I only just discovered this for the very reason mentioned earlier of taking block chords and easily getting them separated into parts for individual strings. PLEASE bring this feature back.
EDIT: I will say that video will be helpful and I’ll build a Macro to do this for now.
Yes, please 
This would be really great! Thanks!
“Explode” often got things wrong, though. It would be so great if there were an explode that would actually figure out that if, say, the arrangment is for four string parts, occasionally there are three, and the violins would play the same, and ocasionally there are more than four, and that means divisi, and the result would make sense.
My workaround: Play live on e.g. the cello track, edit a bit, then copy the cello track to the other tracks and delete notes. Then more tinkering and editing. This way, I get the expression data from the cello track on all tracks, which can also be edited if needs be.
It works, but it’s really tedious.