I’m currently working on an orchestral score in Cubase. (I recently updated to 13).
I was used to keeping a marking of MIDI events when opening the parallel MIDI parts of different instrument tracks in the MIDI editor at the same time, even when I switch from one instrument to another in the dropdown menu for part/track selection next to the toolbar.
This made it very handy to select parallel MIDI events from different tracks, all of which should be assigned similar articulations, and then to quickly assign the corresponding articulations to all of them by simply changing the voice, without having to mark them again each time.
Somehow this no longer seems to work in Cubase 13. Every time I change the track in the foreground in the dropdown menu of the open MIDI editor, the entire marking is gone. This is annoying and, as far as I remember, it worked much better in 12.
Does anyone have any idea if, what or how one could change the settings?
Yes that is the problem. And I am used to have the Selection to remain in the same Editorwindow of different Midiparts from different Tracks. I have already played a bit around with The Editing Mode (“All Parts”, “active Parts”, “all Parts from one Track”) but that doesn’t seem to solve my problem as far as I can see.
What I am talking about is the option to open several (parallel) Parts at once in one Editor. There is a dropdownmenu in the Editorwindow where you can chose wich of the together opened Parts is in the “foreground” “active”.
I am used from up to Cubase 12, that I was able to mark one or multiple Midievents in the Editorwindow by drawing with the Mouse a selection-rectangle. Than everything inside this rectangle was marked and would be affected, by what I edit for instance in the infoline.
This selection of multiple midievents in diferent parts which I opened together in the same Midieditor, was kept no matter which of the together opened parts I chose to be in the foreground. That was very usefull, since I could mark a group of (parallel) Midi-Eevents in different (together opened) Parts and could apply similar changes om them without every time have to select the group new when I changed the Part which I chose by the dropdown menu to be in the foreground.
Now the previous Selection of Midievents is completly lost as soon I change via dropdown menu, which of the opened Parts are in the foreground/active:
I am already in “All Parts” Editing Mode. But as soon I change the (in your exsample) from the green to the blue Part in the Dropdownmenu of the opened Editor, all Markings I have made with the lasso are completely lost. And this is simply really annoying.
I was used in previous Cubase Versions, that the selection made in an open Editor does not change no matter which one of the opened Part are chosen in the Editor-Dropdownmenu to be “active”.
Thank you for confirming, that there is obviously a problem, because it is really annoying when working on a larger Score with Groups of instruments playing parallel Phrases, if for Cubase 13 you now have to select the same phrase for each Instrument again and again.
They have improved many details for working like that, but: to keep that Selection is really important to have. I hope Steinberg, will have an Ear for that Problem and solve it soon.
