Good day, everyone.
So I’m working on a piece with a ton of different midi instruments. Often, I’ll have written or recorded parts for specific instruments, but later I decide to swap certain notes from one instrument to another.
Here’s one example situation, and the kind of functionality I hope to discover:
- Two concurrent clips are selected. Each belongs to a separate track/instrument. Let’s say that one is cello, and the other is violin.
- The editor displays all the notes from both instruments. Certain notes would sound better if I swapped them from cello to violin, or the other way around.
- After selecting the notes that I intend to swap, I press the super awesome magical hotkey that you guys are about to tell me about. Maybe a special dialog comes up, wherein I can select which track I want to move the notes to. Or, maybe it automatically swaps them to the other selected clip/instrument that I’m editing.
There are multiple approaches to this problem, but the ones I already know about are pretty inefficient. Here’s the fastest one I know:
- select the notes that I intend to swap. Let’s say I’m swapping them from violin to cello.
- press l to move the playhead to the start of the first selected note
- press cmd-x to cut the notes out of their original violin clip
- select the cello track
- press cmd-v to paste the notes, creating a new clip in the cello track
- if applicable/desired: merge the new cello clip with the original that it’s sitting atop
If my described quick swap functionality isn’t yet a thing, what’s the fastest way to achieve it within Cubase today? I’m working with version 12 Pro.
Thanks for your time.