Prelisten user drum midis

Cubasis
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With the help of tools I finally managed to import my most important drum midis into a subfolder structure within the Cubasis midi folder. Import into projects works fine.

Now the remaining problem is that I can’t pre-listen my midi drum grooves (pre-listen only works for Steinberg content). But it is extremely tedious to import them one by one and then hit play just to hear the content.

I would get by with the workaround of an iPad drum app allowing to import many drum midis and then listen to them on the fly. But I didn’t find a single drum app allowing that.

Any chance to get pre-listen (at least from drum midis in GM standard) into a future Cubasis update?

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Dear jimknopf,

Sorry but this is not possible, since the factory content previews for Cubasis have been specially produced for Cubasis and consist of audio files.

Greetings,
RG

3

You could create little audio snips, jimknopf, name them the same as the corresponding midi file, and preview those

4

Found another solution:

Now I manage a choice of some 1200 drum midis within a dedicated midi program named “The midiplayer”.
To get the files there I used the Windows program iFunbox (access to iOS folders).
To get some order into the drum midis, I used the help of the Bulk Rename utility (prefixes for different kinds of drum grooves)

Result: I can prelisten to all grooves at a fingertip, and then choose the same midi within the Cubase folder structure (where I also got the files by using iFunbox).

5

Good tip!

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Any plans to add this feature being added in a future update?

Not being able to preview user midi clips is frustrating.

Being able to preview then from the media browser and at the project tempo is a basic requirement for a media browser.

Thanks,
Rich