I am testing C14.
I have imported a midi song with midi lyrics and midi chords.
Cubase 14 score editor does only display the midi note events.
The tracks with the midi text events and the midi chord events are empty.
What can I do to display the lyrics of the midi file in the score editor?
Without I can not use Cubase 14
Nobody knows?
Nobody wants to import professional midi files with chords and lyrics and display them in the score editor?
Are you serious that you have to re-enter all the text events and chords into cubase 14?
This thread is in: Cubase14/Score Editor.
I do, but I had the weekend off.
Chords are synchronised with the Chord track. So any imported chords that display in the Chord track will also show in the score. If you find thatās not the case, please provide a few more details.
Lyrics imported from midi donāt currently display in the Score Editor. To provide a little background: those lyrics import as text attached to individual notes. However, we arenāt able to unambiguously convert them to proper Lyrics, because that functionality is also occupied by expression map entries if they are set as attributes.
Since midi files with Lyrics appear to be less common (Iād be curious what your workflow is, and whether it involves karaoke machines), we felt this was the less disruptive compromise.
Please give our new lyric entry mechanism a try. Find the lyric entry button in the symbol palette. click a note where you want to start entering text. Just type the words, with a dash if itās hyphenated across notes, or space to advance to the next note.
Yes, but the questions from @mhazdra above your post are none the less validā¦ For example did you have a good experience with C13 (or maybe another app/DAW entirely) regarding importing MIDI files that contain Lyrics.? Why not say what app that was for comparative purposes.? Maybe thereās some tips to be learned for SB devs, you never knowā¦
Another thought - maybe there is a 3rd party app that āextractsā lyrics embedded in MIDI files and collects these as text in a container/text editor type area, ready for bulk copy/paste purposesā¦
Maybe, the new score editor in C14 could be adapted to perform this function as an import MIDI file option; then make use of copy/paste via its existing lyric input mechanism, to ease actually getting the lyrics added.
Sorry, I am new in Cubase. Reaper was my favourite DAW.
Chords: Imported chords from MIDI Files do not show in the chord track in my Cubase 14. I can find them in a separate track as āchord eventsā.
How can I bring these chord events to the chord track to be displayed?
Lyrics: I have hundreds of MIDI Files with chords and lyrics.
I would like to import them into Cubase14 and play the melody and chords myself on an arranger keyboard. Reaper DAW is able to import and display the lyrics. Lyrics has a time stamp. You could link it to the melody track and bind it to the neares note event. Look at the software ānotation composerā they can do it as well. Cubase Pro (>500 Euro) can not?
I like Cubase 14 very much with the Dorico Score Editor. But it could be much better for me.
Is it you and Reaper that is creating/has created these MIDI files with the ātime-stampedā lyric content.? Or are they just āstandardā files freely available to anyone (and they always have lyrics ātime-stampedā).?
āNotation Composerā seems a very comprehensive software for this exact purpose (handling MIDI/lyric files to score) and more.
But, well if you need it, you have to pay for the luxury ($198 plus tax), etcā¦ Cubase too gives many features besides importing MIDI files of courseā¦ Crossgrade from Reaper Commercial licence to Cubase Pro 14, currently Ā£298 (inc tax).
(PS:- Sorry for all the questions; my knowledge is low about these things)
Create a Chord Track if there isnāt one yet. You should then be able to drag that entire āchord eventsā track into the chord track.
Weāre looking at importing those lyrics in a future update.
Thats what I did.
But it is not possible, or I am doing somethin wrong.
It seem that only note events are accepted to create chord events in the chord track.
I tried to drag the part from the MIDI event track and drop it to the chord track. Is that the way to merge two tracks?
In Cubase 14.0.10, Lyrics are now imported from MIDI files. There are also two different ways of pasting lyrics from the clipboard. See here: Sheet Music Editor ā Lyrics - #3 by PaulWalmsley
Thanx a lot.
I hope, you will find a solution for the CHORD EVENTS in the imported āCHORDSā track too, to drag them into the chord track.
regards
thomas
I have the same problem. I have many leadsheets created in CUBASE 13 and before. The Chord events were created in the score editor. Now if I want to update these sheets in Cubase 14 all the chords are gone. The chord events are in the midi track. I can see them in the MIDI List Editor. Is there a way to extract these chord events from Cubase 13 into a chord track of Cubase 14.
There isnāt a defined MIDI chord event. So I assume these MIDI files have been created in some non-standard way, and the chords are just text events. Can you provide an example, or a link to the authoring standard that they use?
Chords created in Cubaseās chord track are shown in the new score editor, but currently unfortunately it isnāt possible to show the different type of chord events created in the C13 score editor.
Thank you for your answer. Can I reinstall Cubase 13 over the Cubase 14 installation so that both work. This would allow me to edit my old files/scores.
Yes, both versions work independently.
Let the chord events be text events with a time stamp.
Where is the problem to insert them into the chord track?
Regards
Thomas
Hi Thomas,
I can only agree with you.
In general, displaying chord symbols in the score using these old chord events would be much more flexible and independent of the chord track.
Being independent of the chord track (there is only one, what a nonsense. Maybe, there is only one active) is important to me. Thatās far too inflexible, since the chord track is there to control MIDI playback, not to display chord symbols in the score.
What if I want to have different chord representations in the score?
Thank you
