Make a selection and hit a Key Command and this macro will create a space as long as the selection and insert a copy of the length of the selection.
All tracks will get copied even if you only have one part on one track selected.
I tried with four cycle markers that were a verse and a chorus but I needed to have one more of that combo but thought “why am I doing this over and over??? This is Cubase, right?”
Macros !!!
The best way to make macros is if you remember the key commands and just use the “Type in key” input field to the right and then hit the [<-select ] button plus, of course, the [add command] button.
It’s easier than search and poke around for the commands in the list.
These are the ingredients:
Transport - Locators to Selection
Edit - Select none
Transport - Go to left Locator
Edit - Split Loop
Edit - Select in Loop
Edit - Copy
Edit - Insert Silence
Edit - Paste
Then add a Key Command of your choice and your Aunts husband is Bob.
Plus you also have a longer song!!!
Just tested it and it seems that there is an issue, with a project containing both audio and MIDI tracks. My test involves :
a drum part (1.1.1.0 → 9.1.1.0)
an instrument part (1.1.1.0 → 10.1.1.0) that has been rendered in place (audio track added, as a result).
Each time, before launching the macro, I check that both locators are at 1.1.1.0. Without any part selection, the duplicated area goes from 1.1.1.0 to 9.1.1.0, which means that the macro works using the shorter part : why not ?
The problem is that, if I select either the instrument part or its rendered one, the duplicated part keeps being the 1.1.1.0 to 9.1.1.0 one. So, I have tried moving the drum part at 2.1.1.0 → 10.1.1.0, the result is the same : even if the instrument part or its rendered audio event is selected, it’s the 2.1.1.0 - 10.1.1.0 that is duplicated (as if it was the drum part that was still being selected at first).
Maybe I am doing something wrong, at a point. Will investigate further and keep you informed…
Well, I looked at this a little further and actually, it seems to work as long as you have a MIDI part/audio event selected. So, sorry for the previous post, as I’m no longer able to reproduce the problem. FWIW, there is also this alternate way to do more or less the same thing :
Transport - Locators to Selection
Edit - Global Copy
Edit - Insert Silence
Transport - Go to left locator
Edit - Paste
Let me know if it works on your end…
Overall, a very useful macro, as it works with either MIDI parts or audio event. Thanks !
I cant seem to get this to work I added the exact commands but nothing is selected and pasted. When I goto the edit tab and macros, I can see my macro is greyed and and cannot be selected. Only if I manually select a range of events will it become available and actually copy and paste. Even when the range is set to several bars, it will only copy the range that the selected events occupy.
So the macro is ignoring the range I select before running the macro.
This is Cubase 12pro.
Looks like I need to have a “select all in range” but don’t understand why it work’s for you guys?
Ok so I may have misunderstood the way this should work. I was thinking I would use the cycle range to select the range I wanted copying. So it works fine If I simply use the range selection tool (which I was not really familiar with). Still not sure if this is the way it was intended to work but its working as well as I hoped it would.
thanks to all that contributed (even though its not my posy )
