Follow chord track options not being applied to multiple tracks

Hi,
when i select multiple tracks , hold down the Shift key (also tried shift + option) and under the Follow Chord Track, select Chords and Scales or any of the other options for example, only the top track changes and the rest of the tracks are still set to Off.
On one occasion when the session first launched, it worked as expected when I selected multiple tracks, hold Shift, and select Chords and Scales all the tracks changed but then when I wanted to try Voicings to the selected tracks, only the top track changed.
Is there any other way to have Follow Chord Track be applied to multiple tracks?
I’m running cubase 13.0.20 , Apple M1 pro, ventura 13.6.1, 32 GB memory

Thank you.

Hi,

We call this feature Quick Link. And this function is not available for the Follow Chords feature. The Quick Link is available mostly for the “Mixer” features.

Here’s a video at 4:05 , Greg selected multiple tracks to follow the chord track.

Hi,

Record-enable multiple tracks.

Hi Martin, thanks for the reply. Still not working on my end w record-enabled.
When multiple tracks are selected w rec-enabled, only the top selected trk change.

Hi,

Try to enable Monitor instead of Record, please. Is the Chord Track set to Use Monitor Tracks?

Enabling Monitor doesn’t work either. The Use Monitor Tracks is not used, I usually have that setting send to a dummy midi track w no in or out.
Whatever track the Use Monitor Track is sent to plays both the chords from the Chord Track plus the midi Part from the target track, that’s why I send it to a dummy track.
The only time multiple selected tracks change simultaneously is if I start w a new session, but it only works the first time. Any changes after only the top track gets changed.
I’m testing with and without all modifier keys . I think a while back when it was working ( 7 years ago) I didn’t need modifier keys as long as all tracks where selected and in the video Greg didn’t use any modifier keys.

Hi,

Then Chord Track MIDI data are sent only to this dummy MIDI Track.

I think you might be conflating two different, but similar, items.

When you set the Chord Track to play on the Monitored Tracks, or set it to play on one specific Track; in both those cases the source of the MIDI data that gets played is the Chord Track. The Chord Events generate Note Events on the playback Track(s).

What Greg is doing is different. He already has MIDI Note data on the Tracks. By setting these Tracks to follow the Chord Track it causes the already existing Notes to be moved so they conform to the Chords. But the Chord Events do not generate any new MIDI data.

If you want the Chord Events to generate MIDI data or play on multiple Tracks, here’s a workaround.

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Correct. This avoids having tracks w monitor enable playback the chords from the Chord Track plus the midi Part on that track at the same time.

yes, same here. I have existing midi Parts that I want to conform to the Chord Track. The problem is you can’t set multiple selected tracks to follow the Chord Track at the same time like Greg is doing in the video. It was possible before but lately noticed when multiple tracks are selected and you choose a setting like ‘Voicing’ or ‘Chords and Scales’ ect… it only changes the top selected track, other selected track settings don’t change. You end up having to change each track setting one at a time.

Do you have Link or Quicklink enabled on the Tracks?

No. Just to see what would happen i enable them and doesn’t work.