When inside the Key/MIDI Editor, I can see the piano roll on the left (vertically).
When I press play to listen to my MIDI recording, I could, of course, align a specific MIDI note or a chord of notes with the piano roll to help me remember where on my MIDI keyboard those keys are located.
But is there a way to make it more seamless and let Cubase show me specifically which keys are being pressed, while the MIDI notes are playing? That way it can help me re-record a portion of the melody, when I know exactly where those notes are on my MIDI keyboard.
Hi,
Iām afraid itās not possible neither in the key editor nor in the in-place-editor.
Other than @Rainoās solution you could also get visual feedback by opening the VST instrument with its piano roll (if available, works in Halion). Itās not a vertical piano roll, though.
Thanks, but I meant the visual feedback of actually seeing which piano-roll keys are played (in real time), not their ācodesā or whatever they are called.
Thatās a shame. But actually, what you suggested might work as a workaround - and I do prefer the piano roll to be horizontal in this situation. It does indeed work in Halion, although itās a bit hard to see, which keys being pressed. The visual contrast of Halionās piano roll needs some work, imo.
I am currently working with Arturia Pigments, and I just found out that the piano roll in there can also be used for this pupose, as a workaround, at least.
I hope Steinberg can add this as a feature in the future. Perhaps by enabling ālive feedbackā on their built-in virtual keyboard or something like that.
It could be useful to have a miniature piano showing the visual feedback of which recorded midi notes are triggered in real-time, while editing notes within the key editor. So when you press play and hear the recorded midi notes in action, you know exactly where to place your fingers on your midi keyboard to re-record a certain chord progression, if that makes sense.
Iām not at Cubase to actually try this, so take it with a grain of salt.
But if I recall correctly the MIDI Key Editorās keyboard display does show which Notes are being played realtime when the Trackās Monitoring is enabled. So you could add a MIDI Track just for display purposes with an dummy MIDI Part opened & Monitoring Enabled. Then route your recorded MIDI to the input of this display Track. If the recorded data is on a MIDI Track you can just use a MIDI Send, if not youād probably need to use some virtual MIDI cables. Routing the data would be the tricky part to figure out.
VSTi, that visualizes the MIDI notes being played, live or from a track, on a piano keyboard. Itās not free, but itās definitely worth the relative small amount of money it costs, if you need something like this.
Thank you, but I canāt find a way to route a Midi output to a Midi input. Iām sure Iām missing somethingā¦ Anyway, using LoopMidi or similars your suggestion works.
