10.0
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Setting up Your System
- Audio Connections
- Project Window
- Project Handling
- Tracks
- Track Handling
- Adding Tracks via the Add Track Dialog
- Adding Other Tracks
- Adding Tracks Using Track Presets
- Adding Tracks by Dragging Files from the MediaBay
- Exporting MIDI Tracks as Standard MIDI Files
- Removing Selected Tracks
- Removing Empty Tracks
- Moving Tracks in the Track List
- Renaming Tracks
- Automatically Assigning Colors to New Tracks
- Showing Track Pictures
- Setting the Track Height
- Selecting Tracks
- Deselecting Tracks
- Duplicating Tracks
- Disabling Tracks (Cubase Elements only)
- Organizing Tracks in Folder Tracks
- Handling Overlapping Audio
- Events Display on Folder Tracks
- Modifying Event Display on Folder Tracks
- Track Presets
- Audio Track Presets
- MIDI Track Presets
- Creating a Track Preset
- Loading Presets for Tracks
- Loading Presets for VST Instruments
- Instrument Track Presets
- VST Presets
- Extracting the Sound from an Instrument Track or VST Preset
- Multi-Track Presets
- Loading Multi-Track Presets
- Sampler Track Presets
- Creating a Sampler Track Preset (Cubase Elements only)
- Loading Track, VST, or Sampler Track Presets
- Parts and Events
- Events
- Parts
- Editing Techniques for Parts and Events
- Range Editing
- Playback and Transport
- On-Screen Keyboard
- Recording
- Importing Audio and MIDI Files
- Quantizing MIDI and Audio
- Fades and Crossfades
- Arranger Track (Cubase Elements only)
- Markers
- MixConsole
- MixConsole in Lower Zone
- MixConsole Window
- MixConsole Inspector (Left Zone)
- MixConsole Toolbar
- Fader Section
- Channel Racks
- Adding Notes to a MixConsole Channel
- Channel Latency Overview
- Channel Settings
- Keyboard Focus in the MixConsole
- Audio Effects
- Direct Offline Processing
- Time Stretch Algorithms
- Audio Functions
- Sample Editor
- Hitpoints
- Tempo Matching Audio
- Audio Part Editor
- Sampler Tracks (Cubase Elements only)
- Pool
- Pool Window
- Working with the Pool
- Renaming Clips or Regions in the Pool
- Duplicating Clips in the Pool
- Inserting Clips into a Project
- Deleting Clips from the Pool
- Locating Events and Clips
- Searching for Audio Files
- Missing Files
- Auditioning Clips in the Pool
- Opening Clips in the Sample Editor
- Importing Media
- Exporting Regions as Audio Files
- Changing the Pool Record Folder
- Organizing Clips and Folders
- Applying Processing to Clips in the Pool
- Minimizing Files
- Converting Files
- Conforming Files
- Extracting Audio from Video File
- MediaBay and Media Rack
- Media Rack in Right Zone (not in Cubase LE)
- MediaBay Window
- Working with Volume Databases
- MediaBay Settings
- Automation
- VST Instruments
- Adding VST Instruments (not in Cubase LE)
- VST Instrument Control Panel (not in Cubase LE)
- VST Instrument Selector
- Creating Instrument Tracks
- VST Instruments in the Right Zone (not in Cubase LE)
- VST Instruments Window (not in Cubase LE)
- VST Instruments Window Toolbar (not in Cubase LE)
- VST Instrument Controls (not in Cubase LE)
- Presets for Instruments
- Playing Back VST Instruments
- Latency
- Import and Export Options
- VST Quick Controls (not in Cubase LE)
- Installing and Managing VST Plug-ins
- Remote Controlling Cubase
- MIDI Realtime Parameters
- Using MIDI Devices
- MIDI Functions
- Transpose Setup Dialog
- Merging MIDI Events into a New Part
- Dissolve Part Dialog
- Repeating MIDI Events of Independent Track Loops
- Extending MIDI Notes
- Fixing MIDI Note Lengths
- Fixing MIDI Note Velocities
- Rendering Sustain Pedal Data to Note Lengths
- Deleting Overlaps
- Editing Velocity
- Deleting Double Notes
- Deleting Controller Data
- Deleting Continuous Controller Data
- Restricting Polyphonic Voices
- Thinning Out Controller Data
- Extracting MIDI Automation
- Reversing the Playback Order of MIDI Events
- Inverting the Order of Selected MIDI Events
- MIDI Editors
- Common MIDI Editor Functions
- Changing the Ruler Display Format
- Zooming in MIDI Editors
- Using Cut and Paste
- Handling Note Events
- Handling Several MIDI Parts
- Using the Controller Display
- Selecting Controllers within the Note Range
- Key Editor
- Key Editor Operations
- Inserting Note Events with the Object Selection Tool
- Drawing Note Events with the Draw Tool
- Modifying Note Values while Inserting Notes
- Drawing Note Events with the Line Tool
- Moving and Transposing Note Events
- Resizing Note Events
- Using the Trim Tool
- Splitting Note Events
- Gluing Note Events
- Changing the Pitch of Chords (Cubase Elements only)
- Changing the Voicing of Chords (Cubase Elements only)
- Chord Editing Section (Cubase Elements only)
- Inserting Chords (Cubase Elements only)
- Applying Chord Events to Note Events
- Drum Map Handling
- Editing Note Events via MIDI Input
- Step Input
- Score Editor
- Score Editor Operations
- Drum Editor
- Drum Editor Operations
- Drum Maps
- Common MIDI Editor Functions
- Chord Functions
- Chord Pads
- Editing Tempo and Time Signature
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- VST System Link
- Video
- ReWire (not in Cubase LE)
- Key Commands
- Adding Key Commands
- Searching for Key Commands
- Removing Key Commands
- Saving Key Commands Presets
- Loading Key Command Presets
- Importing Key Command Settings
- Resetting Key Commands
- Default Key Commands
- Add Track Category
- Audio Category
- Automation Category
- Chords Category
- Devices (Studio) Category
- Direct Offline Processing Category
- Edit Category
- Editors Category
- File Category
- Media Category
- MIDI Category
- Navigate Category
- Nudge Category
- Project Category
- Quantize Category
- Set Insert Length Category
- Tool Category
- Transport Category
- Window Zones Category
- Windows Category
- Zoom Category
- Setting up Tool Modifier Keys
- Customizing
- Optimizing
- Preferences
- Index
The chord functions provide you with many possibilities for working with chords.
The chord functions allow you to:
● Build chord progressions by adding chord events to the chord track.
●
Convert chord events to MIDI.
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Use the chord track to control MIDI playback.
● Use the chord track voicing to change the pitches of your MIDI.
●
Extract chord events from MIDI data to get an overview of the harmonic structure of a
MIDI le.
● Record chord events with a MIDI keyboard.
RELATED LINKS
Chord Editing Section (Cubase Elements only) on page 538
Chord Track
The chord track allows you to add chord events and scale events.
RELATED LINKS
Scale Events on page 580
Chord Events on page 576
Adding the Chord Track
PROCEDURE
1. In the global track controls area of the track list, click Add Other Track or Use Track
Preset .
2. Select Add Chord Track.
RESULT
The chord track is added to your project.
Chord Functions
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