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Tutorial 3: Recording and Editing MIDI
5. Activate the Record Enable and Monitor buttons on
the track and play some notes on your MIDI keyboard.
You should see and hear the MIDI signals coming in to the right of the
track.
Setting the track to Record Enable lets Cubase AI know that you want to
record on this track and no other one. You can have many tracks Record
Enabled at a time.
6. Set the left locator to bar “1” and the right locator to
bar “57”.
7. Make sure Cycle is turned off.
We are going to record without looping. We’ll cover MIDI cycle recording
in the section “Cycle recording” on page 44.
8. Press [1] on the numeric keypad of your computer
keyboard.
This will move the cursor to the left locator.
9. Click the Record button and record a few bars of mu-
sic.
10. Click the Stop button when you are finished.
11. Turn off the Monitor and Record Enable buttons on the
track so that we don’t hear the input or record on the track
any more.
Congratulations! You have just created your first MIDI re-
cording in Cubase AI. Move ahead to the next section to
learn how to play back MIDI.
MIDI playback
We are now going to learn how to play back MIDI in Cu-
base AI. You might think this is very simple – just hit
“Play”. It is actually this simple but there are a few tricks to
learn so that you’ll be playing back what you want with
precision.
To start playback
• Click the Start button on the Transport panel.
• Press the space bar on your computer keyboard.
This toggles between start and stop.
• Press the [Enter] key of the numerical computer keypad.
• Double-click in the lower half of the ruler.
• Select the MIDI event called “Strings” and choose
“Loop Selection” from the Transport menu.
To stop playback
• Click the Stop button on the Transport panel.
• Clicking the Stop button twice moves the cursor to the
position in the project, where you started playback.
• Press the space bar on your computer keyboard.
This toggles between stop and start.
• Press the “0” key of the numerical computer keypad.
Cycle playback
Cubase AI has the ability to loop or cycle a section of your
project. To set the cycle location you need to use the left
and right locator.
1. On the Transport panel, set the left locator to “1” and
the right locator to “5”.
This tells Cubase AI that we want to loop or cycle between bars 1 and 5.
Meaning we will have a 4 bar loop since the end of bar 4 is the beginning
of bar 5.
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For this section, make sure you load the project
“MIDI Playback” found in the “Tutorial 3” folder.
Record Enable
Monitor
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The default key command for this is [Shift]+[G]. This
is the quickest way to loop the selected MIDI event
and start playback!
The left locator set to “1”.
The right locator set to “5”.
Cycle activated