In cubase 14 pro, I have a Halion instrument track with a tuba. I’d like to add some “heavyness” to specifically the end of each note played, and specifically on the longer notes.
Is there a way to apply saturation to just every last 500 ms of a note? Or is there a way to set in the saturation just after the first 500 ms of a note (so the first 500 ms of each note, no saturation, and then the saturation comes in gradually) - so if the note is shorter than 500 ms no saturation kicks in.
How would you organize this? I don’t want to go into the tedeous drawing of saturation curves on the track for every note. There should be a smarter way, isn’t it?
You could try using modulator to automate a saturator plugin… but I guess you have to put some midi cc data for every note played to trigger the modulator?
EDIT: It seems you can trigger modulators with Midi notes.
thanks, I tried that, it seems a good suggestion. I followed the (rather limited) instructions from the documentation which you copied.
However, I cannot get it to work properly. The midi trigger mode seems rather buggy, or I don’t understand some things about it. Anyway, I was not able to get the midi notes trigger the modulator (a shaper). I used long notes as midi so I could follow, but the triggering of the modulator doesn’t restart with every midi note; it sort of seems to lead a life of its own.
Anybody succesfully used "trigger mode: midi notes”? I couldn’t find any you tube stuff about it either, it seems a rather obscure, not so much used new feature.
I also tried the envelope shaper, with the idea to let the tracks own envelope trigger the modulator. That might work, as the envelope has an attack knob. Unfortunately, the attack knob doesn’t allow the huge attack I wanted to achive; it goes max to 100% (of what?? Completely unclear and the documentation also doesn’t tell) which is in practice some 300 ms or so.