Cubasis 2 had an option on the keyboard for custom chords. I’d like to see it return, except on the Pads, where I think it would be more useful and easier to play compared to the small custom chord buttons in Cubasis 2.
I’ve attached a crude mockup showing how it could fit on the Pad window, with:
-a “custom” button, tap on it to activate the piano roll to choose notes
-a piano roll located above the pads, to choose notes
-a name button, to name your custom pad
It would be very awesome to create chordpads using the onscreen keyboard, selecting the notes in whatever spread of notes regardless of octave, and render that into a pad. Maybe a name that pad option in case our notes selected didn’t make an easy to name chord. Similar to the app ChordPolyPad.
I’m a longtime Cubase user - since the very beginning on Ataris - who’s only recently started using Cubasis and I have to be honest that I’m quite disappointed with how many seemingly basic features and functions are missing. But, given that the mighty Cubase doesn’t offer this, I don’t really know why I’m that surprised.
C’mon, Steinberg! Why do you insist on removing functionality from software … especially when it’s as fundamental as this? It’s a PITA in Cubase and more so in Cubasis with its limited screen real estate and peripatetic leanings.
So, howsabout an update to this post … and then a date about when you’re going to implement it? Some of us use more than basic triads and their simple derivatives in our compositions! Or at least we’d like to…
