Cubase 14 Pro both 0.20 & 0.30
I have an immediate need to generate a score sheet but bizarre behavior makes it impossible. I went through the MIDI track and adjusted all the start and end points of the notes so that the score representation would be clean. This is the kind of thing I’m getting:
Hi,
This can happen if you have multiple copies of each note on top of itself. Those duplicate notes may not be clear in the key editor since if they are directly on top of each other it may not be obvious they are there. For instance it looks like on beat 2 of bar 92 you have 21 copies of the quarter note B2 all on top of each other. If you look in the piano roll it might look as though there is only one note there, but if they are all exactly on top of each other then this can be deceiving. So the score editor is showing the split stems with the B2 split 21 times with 21 noteheads to show you these duplicate notes.
Duplicates of this nature could potentially cause problems in playback and are not always obvious when they happen in Cubase since the piano roll doesn’t flag them in any way, so in some ways it is good that the Score Editor is calling attention to this problem. In playback it could cause artifacts such as phasing or a doubling of amplitude.
You can fix it quickly in Cubase by selecting your MIDI region, going into the MIDI menu in Cubase, then “Functions”, then “Delete Doubles”. Then the score should hopefully show up fine in the Cubase Score Editor.
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Thanks so much for your help! You solved this for me. I hadn’t run into anything that looked like that in the old score editor, and it surely looked kinda crazy. Now that I understand it, I can certainly agree that it’s a good feature for checking MIDI tracks.
It’s a bit of a mystery to me how so many copies were produced in that one spot, or even a spot with 4 copies. There was copying and pasting, but large sections and the occasional single note, all into empty territory. Doubles of course do crop up for various reasons, but that huge stack is an anomaly. All’s well that ends well, though.
Thanks again,
Peter
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I would like to invite you to mark mducharme’s reply as the “Solution”, so that the topic gets amrked accordingly.