Hello,
History :
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I have a symphony already originally written in Cubase 5 VST Score, that I was able to import in Cubase 12 Pro.
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Of course it was a bad idea to write it in Cubase (which is not the best tool for scores!). But it’s now done and it’s already a chance that I could import it in a .CPR format (originally it was in an .all format…).
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After fixing all the MIDI Quantize bugs (note by note thousands of notes…), my intention is to try to import it in Dorrico to have a clean score for the orchestra.
My problem:
As I am still in Cubase, I need a solution to load multiple busses for multiple instruments in Halion for one single track.
For example, I have the flute that alternate from piccolo to flute in C to flute in G (3 different instruments played by one single musician). And I need this to be written on a single track (for the score).
Same problem for the percussionist who must alternate with timpani, and other drums…
Also I have the brass that needs to play at a certain moments with a mute (jazz noisy sound).
I found a solution that is not perfect, using in Halion the iconic opus sounds the standard flute, piccolo, and alto flute (in G), programming different silent sounds on the same bus, and with the silent keys I am able to redirect the correct instrument when I need it. But it’s not perfect, and I suspect some sounds in a common range of the flute and piccolo, or flute and alto flute, to be doubled…
But for the brass, if in the iconic opus vst sounds I have silent keys for the trumpet and trombone for standard sounds (staccato, legato etc…) I do not have an articulation that uses the mute! So I had to use a different VST sound : a noisy jazz muted trumpet, that doesn’t have silent notes! And the only solution was to use different tracks… which is complicated and not easy to follow on a score (as I have now a separate score for the trumpet and trombone… not easy to follow on a conductor score…
How to make it easy, without having different tracks, but only one track having multiple busses… saying that this note will be played by this or that instrument, using this or that different bus?
Solution?
Maybe all this is useless and I should go to Dorrico right now, forgetting cubase which is not the good tool for what I am doing… and by the way, I do not want to export all this as MIDI sounds to Dorrico, as I will have to work hundred of hours to re-write everything back in Dorrico… (as the MIDI sounds for this symphony are already shaped for « articulations in the old cubase 5 VST score, like having a 1/16th note as a MIDI sound, but that looks like an 1/8th note on the score… and if I export MIDI sounds, I will loose all the articulations, the nuances, and what is shown in the score, that is different from you hear).
Thanks.