I’m really pleased to see the new score editor in Cubase 14! I’ve been waiting for this to happen since Dorico was first announced.
In it’s current form however, I don’t find it as useful because of the missing feature below.
Please can we combine multiple tracks as one instrument in the score editor? For those people who use a “track per articulation” template
It’s often standard practise to have one “Violin Spicc” track, another “Violin Legato” track, and so on.
In Dorico, you can import all these tracks and combine them into one instrument stave via the MIDI import feature. However, the new score editor doesn’t do this. The current result is multiple staves for the same instrument (eg 10x violin 1 staves in the score editor).
Right now in the Cubase 14 trial, I now have a beautiful looking score but 10+ tracks for each instrument (one for each articulation). This results in scores with 100+ instruments/staves - making it impossible to use!
Steinberg - please can you consider the option to combine multiple tracks into one instrument for the use case above? A lot of people use a “track per articulation” template and will be affected by this. Thanks!
Absolutely not a score editor specialist but, just in case : have you considered using the MIDI > Merge MIDI in Loop function, before using the score editor ?
This is definitely where we’d like to get to in the fullness of time, because in cases like you describe, tracks don’t correspond to players in the score, and we know this use case is important for composers who are doing mockups with VSTs but printing for actual players.
However… this is way more than adding an option. It’s major architectural work to do this, so I think you may need to be patient for this one.
Completely agree, the new Score Editor in Cubase is useless for me at least at this stage : all the pro musicians working in film music presenting their templates in Cubase on Youtube use to work one track per articulation with several tracks for the same articulation for many good reasons. I hope the development team will try to take tis into account in the future version of Cubase. I will try the Merge Midi in loop.
Hi, thank you very much for the tip : it works well. Each instrument in my template has a dedicated folder with instrument tracks for each articulation by libraries. I created a macro I apply once such folder selected that :
1 / Solo all the tracks in the folder
2 / Render midi in loop, creating at the end of my template a “MIDI 01” track
3 / selecting this track and deleting doubles
4 / Unsoloing everything
4 / Selecting the MIDI 01 track and asking to rename it
Then I iterated accross all my instrument folders and had at the end of my template as many MIDI track as I have Instruments. Selecting these tracks and opening the score editor and VOILA !
The only thing I cannot figure out is to set the articulation by default for each of my Instruments tracks (eg. trem or pizz). But this is already a nice turnround solution to start with.