Recently upgraded my cubase from 11 to 15. For piano, I like to do one track for right hand and one track for left hand. When i selete the both tracks and open score editor, they are in one grand staff for me to edit. But in the new version, each track has its own grand staff in the new score editor. Is there a way to change it back?
thanks for the reply, but this way the bracket on the left is not curly like in a normal grand staff.
Record your independent tracks as you like.
Freeze and Combine The Events into a single Track
From the main Project DisplayâŠ
In the track inspector, or in the Track Pane, set your Right hand channel to something like 1 or 2, and your Left Hand channel to something like 3 or 4.
Hold ctrl and select the two tracks. Right click one of your selected tracks and choose âSelect All Eventsâ.
Freeze the two tracks. (Top Menu/MIDI/Freeze MIDI Modifiers)
When you freeze a MIDI track like this it will hard set whatever you have established in the Track Inspector into the MIDI events on the track. This includes the âMIDI Channelâ that was set in the Track Inspector. The Score Editor treats the MIDI channel of individual MIDI events as a (Voice).
Toggle the Right Hand Track so it it displays your Track âLanesâ. Drag your Left Hand Element into an empty lane of the Right Hand part. It will snap on top of the Right Hand Part when you let your mouse button go. Drag it again into an empty lane.
If you donât see this Lane icon, drag the track so it is taller. If you still donât see it, you can add it to MIDI and/or Instrument tracks with the settings cog in bottom right of the Tracks pane.
By having the MIDI parts/events on the same track, and sorted by channels, you should find that you can sort it all out on a single grand staff, and each note on a different channel will be an independent âvoiceâ (like in contrapuntal music). I believe the Score Editor built into Cubase can handle up to 4 voices per track or stave.
Note, if something is missing or you end up with two grand staffs again, select the track, right click it, and choose âselect all eventsâ before opening the score editor. That will force all of the events on the track into the same stave system.
You can delete the now empty Left Hand Track, fold up the lane view, and change the main Playback channel back to what your instrument needs in the Track Inspector.
Note, you could also simply freeze the tracks to different MIDI channels, and truly merge them together, so all the notes are in the same event. See Merge MIDI In Loop, and Bounce MIDI.
Thanks! I also figured out a kind of stupid way to do it. I just copy and paste the midi event on one track on top of the other track without merging them, it magically works..
Hi @ezmusic,
youâve probably figured this out already, so just for the record:
In Cubase 15 Score Editor (Menu: Score â Open Score Editor):
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whenever you create a single instrument voice staff (like Violin, Flute, etc.), and perhaps double it by MIDI / Instrument track duplication in the project editor, and then select both related MIDI clip contents before you open the score editor - via the menu or by key command -, you should get the straight bracket which combines them both as still distinct instrument voices, but now grouped (group bracket, as itâs commonly being used in printed classical multi-instrument scores). You only get that group bracket if both staves represent the same instrument or the same instrument group (like Strings, Woodwinds, Brass) - otherwise youâd get no bracket at all.
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â Same instrument â
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â Same instrument group â
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â Instruments from different groups â
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whenever you create a two-handed staff (piano, organ) as such via the menu and
Score â Change Instrument type for Active TrackâŠ, you should get the curved bracket that youâd expect with a piano score (traditional keyboard notation).
Best wishes,
Markus