Hi,
is it possible to have the chord track automatically follow a selected midi track?
I mean, say I have a chorus at bar 30 and the chords for it in the chord track. Then when I decide to move up the chorus 4 bars, I have to also move the chords in the chord track. But can I make the chord track follow this change automatically? Setting the ‘use monitored tracks’ doesn’t seem to do much.
Michel
I have never tried to group midi parts and chord events. Maybe that will work for you?
Pretty sure you can’t although you can go the other way & have the MIDI follow the Chord Track.
If you are moving everything starting at bar 30 out 4 bars so it starts at bar 34 you could use the Insert Silence command and you wouldn’t need to move anything, it would all get shifted by 4 bars as part of the insert.
EDIT
You might also want to explore using the Arranger Track where you can try out all sorts of variations and then flatten it down to the one you want.
Yeah that will functionally work, but I don’t think it helps much because you need to Select all the Events/Parts you want to move, Group them and then drag them to their new location. Or you could just Select all the Events/Parts you want to move and drag them to their new location without grouping. However if you were doing this repeatedly on the exact same Events/Parts the Grouping would mean you’d only need to make the Selection one time to create the Group and not each time you wanted to move them.
thank you for your suggestions, but I’m afraid none of them seem to work.
It’s not possible to group a midi part with chord track events. Trying to do so and then copying the midi part will still not copy the chord events. Would have been just what I need, but alas. If the chord events would be packed inside a part, just like midi notes or audio events, then this might work.
I think this would be a very good idea actually. then you can just treat them like any other part.
The arranger track idea is interesting, but the idea is that the chords are the same for, say, all the choruses but the instruments play all kinds of variations of the chorus, so there’s no repetition there. I’ll give it a try, though it’s pretty tricky.
The insert silence idea is a bit too cumbersome.
But what’s this ‘use monitored tracks’ good for anyway? Can’t find much in the manual.
Thanks for your input!
Michel
That is basically the midi output routing for the chord track. It generates midi events and with this setting you can tell it where to send them.
thanks!
Michel
You don’t need to group them, just select & drag.
How so? For me it’s the simplest approach.
Hi Raino,
thanks for the time you put into it, but it’s not what I mean to achieve.
take this: I want to be able to just copy the hilited chord sheet part to somewhere else in the song and I would like the chords to follow that. That’s what I mean by grouping. Now I have to copy the chords as well. In C13 (not using the cubase chord track) the chord symbols were inside a part, so if you copied the part, the chord symbols were copied as well. I know it’s just a matter of making sure you’ve selected the chords as well and then you can copy and move them as you wish. I know how to do that. It’s just a little workflow thing what I mean. If the chord track would, like other track types, consist of parts, that would be great! You can handle the in one go.
and as for the ‘insert silence’, really too cumbersome if you’re constantly moving song parts around in an arrangement (with the different chordprogresfsions). You also have to consider that maybe not all parts need to move, and pick-up measures will get seperated, so you have move them back to the right spot. Tedious if that pick-up measure is inside a part with other notes that should not move. I use it sparingly.
Michel
This is about the score editor? It got rewritten with Cubase 14.
Too well aware of that!
