3.0

CUBASE SE
MIDI effects 2 – 35
• The display spans one octave (as indicated by the pitch list to the left).
You can scroll the displayed octave up or down by clicking in the
pitch list and dragging up or down.
This way you can insert notes at any pitch. Note that each step can contain one note
only – the Step Designer is monophonic.
Click and drag to view other octaves.
• To remove a note from the pattern, click on it again.
5. Select “Velocity” on the Controllers pop-up menu.
This pop-up menu determines what is shown in the lower controller display.
6. Adjust the velocity of the notes by dragging the velocity bars in the
controller display.
7. To make notes shorter, select “Gate” on the Controllers pop-up menu
and lower the bars in the controller display.
When a bar is set to its maximum value (fully up), the corresponding note will be the full
length of the step (as set with the Quantize parameter).
8. To make notes longer, you can tie two notes together. This is done by
inserting two notes and clicking the Tie button below the second note.
When the Tie button is lit for a note, it won’t retrigger – instead the previous note will
be lengthened. Also, the tied (second) note will automatically get the same pitch as the
first note. You can add more notes and tie them in the same way, creating longer notes.
9. If you now start playback in Cubase SE, the pattern will play as well,
sending out MIDI notes on the track’s MIDI output and channel (or, if
you have activated the Step Designer as a send effect, on the MIDI
output and channel selected for the send in the Inspector).