I think i have done it before but cannot remember how to do it now.
I would like to print the Chord Track chords so I can play whilst not in Cubase.
Can someone please explain how I can do that?
my workaround was always to drag all the chords from the chord track to an empty MIDI track, then use the score editor to print. But that always created notes I didn’t want, I only needed the chord symbols.
So, if you just want the chords: create a new MIDI track, create a new MIDI event over the whole of the project, select that and open Score Editor. Select Settings→Instrument, chose e.g. “Singers→Lead” as the instrument type. That gives you an empty stave with the chords above.
This is the result:
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Thank you for the replies. Fese I think that is what I need. I was trying to learn these chords for a not well-known song, for a band I was going to play for but that fell through. I kind of worked out 95% of the chords myself but a few were bothering me. Thanks again
Hi,
I am still a little lost here. Sorry, I can’t quite get it to work properly and have nothing but the chords on the stave
I have gotten this step. But there is no way to just print the chord chart symbols from the chord track is that right? I can’t get that to a pdf with the bars?
If not, I go to the next step and here is where I can’t get your solution to work for me. I open the score editor
and thankfully the chords are listed but I can’t follow your instructions clearly to clean the stave. You “ Select Settings > Instrument” but there is no “Settings Tab to select. So, I looked at this
and went through those setting options but none of them really seem to fit exactly what you’ve stated, or when I try them they don’t clear the stave.
Sorry, I feel like I am missing something really obvious here but any help is appreciated. It is just as the piano lines i’ve written have become more complex the bass player wants chord charts and uses iReal Pro to create them but I am not on mac and searching it does seem like I can get cubase 14 pro to do what I want but I just can’t quite get there.
I think you missed this:
You don’t have an empty MIDI track, you have a MIDI track where you dragged the chord symbols onto. You need and empty MIDI part.
Okay, I am nearly there. I see most of it. But, I don’t know the step “create a new midi event over the whole project. So, when I am in this area I only see my Keyscape midi channel and not the Chord Track that I created
How do I get that to appear in the layout section. I see in your screenshot you have multiple lines including the chord track. I think once I work this out. I have all the missing pieces.
Sorry for the questions, I’ve never played around in this space before and this will be extremely helpful to have for the following 21 tracks I have to hand to the bass player
- create a new MIDI track
- set the locators to the beginning and the end of the project
- double click into the empty space of the MIDI track, this will create a new empty MIDI part. (Alternatively, use the pencil tool to draw a new part)
- open the empty MIDI part in the Score Editor.
