Hello everyone.
As a long-term user that never created a full template because creating expression maps is soooo tedious, I finally came around and created a fully functional webpage for creating expression maps.
Make sure to check the help page to get started
Some features
Unlike Cubase’s own editor with this tool you can assign triggers (key/cc/pgc) to articulations!
Slots are then generated from these articulations, combining the articulations’ triggers.
You can assign increasing triggers to multiple articulations with just a few clicks. Just select multiple articulations, press the “+++” button and each articulation gets its own trigger, either increasing chromatically or just white keys or just black keys
Override any value in the generated slots
Enter values:
with your keyboard (“C#-2” or “1”, “D-2” or “2”)
with a visual midi keyboard (see 2nd screenshot)
by just using an actual midi keyboard (works for keys, CC and velocity)
This is awesome!
I have found an issue.
On Mac, looks like selecting multiple articulations to add to a slot is not working.
I can shift select, but not command select.
Also would be cool to have the page justified to the center rather than left of the screen.
On a 4k monitor you end up working on the very top left of the window.
But this tool is gonna make a lot of people happy, congrats!
Yeah, Macs are very “special” in various ways. I don’t own a Mac so testing is gonna be difficult. I’ll probably get back to you on that, but already have an idea how to handle that. Thanks for pointing it out.
Ah! this is great. So well executed. Thanks so much for your hard work here, and for sharing. Really appreciate it.
Steinberg - can I recommend sending mk1x86 a free copy of something cool for being an outstanding citizen of the cubase community here? He kinda nailed it!
Seconded -thank you - fantastic work, and if Steinberg gets you a copy of Dorico Pro, maybe you could find a way to adapt the site to make expression maps in Dorico?
@G_Garcia@ShikiSuen
No, you cannot create “Dorico expression maps”, they work differently because you have infinite look-ahead. That means that you can decide whether to play arco v staccato based on the note-length which is usually not known when playing live (i.e. in Cubase), but is known when using Dorico.
However it seems like Dorico can import Cubase expression maps so in the widest sense you can create expression maps for Dorico.
