Specifications

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About Groups
● Audio Parts cannot be Grouped.
Defining a Group is a way to make Cubase VST look at several Parts as one entity.
This allows you to handle a set of Parts as one section, making it easier for you to
experiment with the structure of your song. To play back Groups, you need to place
them as Group Parts on a special Track called a Group Track. Groups can be used in
many ways:
• Group all the brass parts in a chorus (trumpet, sax, trombone...) so that
they can be handled as a section of the orchestra and easily be repeated
in every chorus.
• Turn every section of a song (intro, verse, chorus, etc), into a Group so
that the song can be remodelled fast, on a separate Group Track.
• Build up each Part of the song (intro, verse, chorus...) in one Arrange
window each, and assemble the song on a Group Track in yet another Ar-
range window.
As you understand from the examples above, the Groups are global for the whole
Song. A Group created in one Arrange window can easily be played back in an-
other. All in all you can have 64 groups, which are saved with the Song.
● A Part isn't muted or deleted when it is used in a Group. Parts can both be
used as members of one or several Groups and as regular Parts at the same
time. Therefore, you might have to Mute the Tracks with the Parts that make
up the Group. If you don’t and both the Group and the regular Parts are posi-
tioned at the same positions, you will get double notes that might give you an
increase in volume, reduced polyphony or unwanted flanger effects.
● Parts that have been used as components in a Group, can be moved around
without affecting what the Group plays. However, if you change the
contents
of the Parts, this will be reflected in the Groups.
Groups
Parts that belong to Groups
Group Parts on a Group Track
The Group List