Hey guys,
I’m curious as to if anyone has found a way to detect parallel 5ths or octaves in the note editor. Octaves I suppose could be detected visually using the note color option, but parallel 5ths would be great.
I’m thinking maybe a Logical Editor preset that selects 5ths.
Anyone have any clever ideas?
Thanks so much! 
Hey vic!
Your posts have helped me many times so its really cool to see you respond 
Is this chord based? If so in a contrapuntal texture it might not cover all the ground. Its a shame that the Logical Editor doesn’t have a ‘Select Interval’ function. There has to be some workaround.
No, I didn’t have a Chord track in this example.
To see the extent to which the Logical Editor can meet your needs here, create a Target Line…
Context Variable___Equal___[then click/hold the “Parameter 1” field, to see the pop-up options. Here, I selected “Position in Chord (Part)”, then click/hold “Parameter 2” to see what is available.]
Notice that, in my screenshot, the third “chord” didn’t have any note selected in it, because that chord didn’t contain a perfect fifth 
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Obviously, it is calculating the “perfect fifth”, based on what it considers the chord to be… I didn’t (yet) try this other than with the chords in root position… not sure how it would handle 1st or 2nd inversions, for example .
Inversions are handled wonderfully, as long as there is a 3rd for Cubase to use to figure out which is the 5th and which is the root.
It doesn’t have the function of freely searching for a particular interval, except in the context of a chord it can recognize. That type of thing would be pretty cool though.
Makes sense, Vic
Steve, thanks for chiming in! Glad you agree that it would be a pretty cool feature. Maybe in the future
Thanks guys!
A couple years ago I took a Coursera MOOC called Write ‘Like Mozart’, although it could have more accurately been titled ‘Write using the Constraints Generally In Effect at the Time of Mozart’ - but where is the zing in that. Full disclosure I still cannot write like Mozart. 
Anyway one of the student’s wrote a program to check voice leading. To use it you need to export to MusicXML. Then open that in a text editor, copy the XML and paste that into the site. It does not like empty bars at the start. So if you had a part that ran from bar 25 to 48 you wanted to check, temporarily move it to bar 1 before doing the export.
