is it anyhow possible to give each note in the Key Editor a pitch increase over the course of its length? Like that a note starts with a pitch of C and ends with a pitch of C#?
I know there are probably ways to add a portamento effect in Cubase, but that’s not what I’m looking for, as a portamento would always glide up or down on a e.g. violin string IN BETWEEN notes. I want the pitch to just increase over the course of the CURRENT note, and then have NO portamento whatsoever when changing to the following note.
The reason is a sort of experiment of mine to emulate a string ensemble, where the violinists either slightly bend the finger upwards or downwards over the course of each notes duration (causing a minimal pitch increase) or there’s a second Viola ensemble that starts with the “lower” pitch note a split second before the Violins follow.
The more I listen to it, the more I doubt the latter theory though…
Yeah, no, it’s actually not at all.
Not if you want to give already recorded notes a pitch increase afterwards.
Doing this during recording would be insane, as the part is very fast paced and there are a TON of notes I’d have to use the pitch bend on, so just reducing playback speed won’t help.
Have you tried automating the pitch bend cc? Draw in the values you want after you have recorded it. You can click on an event and have a little automation window just for that individual event.
I know I can manually set pitch / velocity / etc. in there, but is there a way to do so for all notes at once? Like, on a per note basis as requested by me?
Afaik this lane is amongst the things Steinberg hilariously fu-cked up, since it doesn’t support any sort of copy/paste operations, but I’d have to double check myself.
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Starting with ‘maybe’ - if the Virtual Instrument supports Note Expression (it likely doesn’t, but maybe) you can use that to control the Pitch independently for each Note.
Other than that you’re going to need to use Pitch Bend. The PB will be applied to all the notes currently playing on that Track & Channel which may or may not be what you want depending on how the Notes overlap each other. If you want to control the Notes in different voices independently you can either use MIDI Channel Numbers to differentiate the lines. Or split them onto different Tracks. The former is more compact and keeps everything together but intertwined. While the latter is easier to see what’s happening. Personally I’d split it into Tracks.
Keep in mind you can always record new MIDI data and merge it into existing MIDI Data. In this specific case I’d go with hand entering the controller data. But if someone (not me) wanted they could slow the Tempo to 10 BPM and overdub the PB changes in slow motion.
Finally if you are on Cubase 14 you can use the new Modulators to drive Pitchbend Controllers. So that’s also in the toolbox.