How to select a lower voice in Score Editor

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Hello. Here is what I need to do

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I currently have Soprano voice selected, how can I move the selection to the voice below using my keypad? L & R buttons select previous or next note in the same voice but I need to select a lower voice.

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You need a Macro for that.

Example:

  1. Assign a key command to “Insert Voice: x” (x = the voice of your choice) in the Score Functions folder.
  2. Create the following Macro:
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  3. Assign a key command to your Macro

Then use the key command assigned to your Macro and L & R arrows to select events in the corresponding voice.

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Hi @attaboy_jhb,

Thanks to @Maestro’s excellent advice, you can do exactly what you intended to do.

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More fundamentally:
sadly, there’s no simple default key / keypad function which does what you need in Cubase Pro’s score editor, since this editor doesn’t explicitly follow a SATB oriented concept.
Short attempt at an explanation: (please open my short Summary)

Summary

Note voices in score editor are MIDI channel related, not score voice register related, and that’s something which (more or less) points at Cubase’s oldest heritage as a MIDI only sequencer.

However, the Key Editor would allow to be used as a “fast workflow SATB editor”, where you can fast jump to voices more freely, by simple key command (arrow keys, vertical arrows).

Apart from that, score editor navigation still remains pretty straight forward for simpler tasks, in polyphonic mode one can still…:

  • select staff / staves: → Up / Down arrow keys
  • Select staff note(s): → Left / Right arrow keys (non-polyphonic, within single staff)

…as long all the notes within that single staff belong to a single voice only.
If one wants to jump to an additional (layout) voice, one needs to click it with the mouse cursor, from then on one can use the L/R arrow keys like before.

Cheers,
Markus

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Thank you. The macro does allow me to select the correct voice but but it doesn’t actually select the voice below the voice I have selected. I may have to use the arrow key several times to get back to the correct position in the score after using the macro which makes me question whether just selecting the note with my mouse would be the quicker option.

Thank you!