10 Well Hidden Cubase Tips you SHOULD use! 

Dom i know we dont know each other in person BUT i want to THANK YOU SO MUCH for everthing you do! Im an SAE Alumni myself and i still learn stuff every day and this channel is such a blessing!

Well, I guess I am an advanced Cubase user ;) knew most of these except the first one (I never draw chords anyway). Extra tip for the Step Designer: Hit “randomize”, to generate a random sequence. Then insert the MIDI Modifiers plugin after the Step Designer and use “Scale Transpose” to force the random sequence to your favorite scale and key, and Boom!, your random sequence now plays in keys instead of some 12 tone music.

I'm going to give you a tip that I think few people know. If it helps, give it a like! In the sending channel when we are in the channel strip sometimes we add an FX and we want to modify that FX so the normal thing is that we look for the effect channel and open the plugin and modify it. but you can save this step by pressing ALT+double click on the submission and the plugin will open!

Great tips! I did not know most. TIP: to quickly copy a plugin to another track, in the mix window, hold ALT & click the plugin & drag & drop to the insert of a desired track = BOOM! Thx Dom

Thank you so much for making me aware of the Re-Record function. You have added 6 years to my life! And showing me how to copy and paste plugin settings has added another 2 years to my life!

Most people use a mouse to put chords in?? Man, I am WAY out of the "Most" then. I am not being dumb, but don't "most" people who use things like cubase just PLAY a D min7 ? I don't understand. I swear to God I'm not trying to be oblivious to what musicians do, but since the 80s, if I have ever wanted to record a chord, I recorded the MIDI notes of me playing a chord progression. But aside from that, Dom kicks serious ass with Cubase tips. ALways love what you do brother.

You asked if there were any "Boom" moments ... I was blown away with most of these features you showed ... I didn't know about them. Thank you for making this video!

🎵 Dom’s the best…all around…no one’s ever gonna keep him down! 🎵

Great tips Dom. I use most of the tips so it's great to see. I love also using the 'P' key when a clip or a group of clips are selected to set left and right locator around the clips. Makes recording or looping easier and faster.

Thanks Dom for the tips, most I knew, some I forgot, some I wasn't aware of... Now, all I need is a colour-changing t-shirt... lol!

Another great thing I discovered a few years ago related to the last tip you gave - You can hold the 'Alt' key while dragging a plugin from one channel to another, and it will copy it to the new channel with the exact same settings :)

I wish there was a musician as good as you who gave tips for FL Studio! Your videos make me wanna change to Cubase, but I feel like it is a bit late for me to change DAWs, I've been using FL for years now

Changing the color of your t shirt is also a boom moment for me :3

Great and informative as always! My own favourite tip is something I do when programming MIDI drums. First, I program all the drum parts to a grid - preferably 16ths. Then I use the MIDI Logical Editor to either 'Rockify' or 'Jazzify' (for lack of better phrases) the drums. Assuming about 120 BPM and starting with the kick, I randomize the kick from about -4 to +4 ticks. I do this to all the drums. Then, for 'Rockifying', I move all snare hits 4 ticks forward, so they fall a little bit later than the beat. Similarly, I move the hi-hat 6 ticks forward, and finally I move other cymbals and toms 8 ticks forward. This is an easy way to create the coveted 'pocket' which functions so well in rock and funk music. When 'Jazzifying', Instead I move the snare 4 ticks backwards making it fall a bit before the beat, hi-hat 6 ticks ahead and cymbals and toms 8 ticks ahead. As mentioned, this is easily done with the Midi Logical editor. This small trick can make even the stiffest, most boring beat danceable. Try it!

Re-record! That’s a boom!!! Thanks Dom

When it comes to copying inserts between channels, I use the combination of Alt+Shift in Win, Command+Shift in Mac. when I hold these keys, the tab at the top "Q-Link" lights up, and when I grab a specific plug-in, still holding the keys, I simply grab it and drop it on the target channel, or in the same way, when I hold these two keys, I grab the "inserts" tab and drop the entire chain of inserts on specific channel. Also, the same Q-Link option is helpful when I have several channels and I want to remove several decibels at the same time or add them on specific channels. I mark the channels that interest me (also groups and midi) I hold Alt+Shift all the time and use the cursor to select one fader and adjust the entire selected section.

I bought Cubase Pro 13 when it came out, I have never seen or heard of D.A.W.S before, so I am so fresh and new like a baby!! I watched the video tutorial how to get around in 14 minutes.. . And the whole set up screen was different! Can you please please do a NOOB video using Cubase Pro 13? From the basics up! So we are seeing the same thing and dont get lost!

Boom! Re-record. Can’t believe I’ve only just heard about this!

Today I used some of your wisdom and I can boldly say..... You are an amazing teacher.

Dom's t-shirt changing to blue from time to time. 7:36 and at the end.👕

It took me a few moments to realize your shirt was changing colors at the beginning haha!

booom moment! I've been searching for that for years!

Thanks Dom, this was super helpful. I especially like the one about delay compensation! My tip to add that I recently discovered is in creating user kit presets in Groove Agent!!! I'm currently producing for a singer songwriter client. Most of my other clients are R&B. Before our session I created a special session template for her and auditioned the sounds from my library - creating kits of things I found that could possibly work great with her specifically. So now I have a sonic pallet already saved and ready to go AND they can easily be loaded within ANY instance of Groove Agent. (side note, things got a little buggy when renaming the kits and also loading so many back to back to check each one. But other than that this is an AWESOME feature for me). Cheers!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Re-record! Much obliged. :)

Another nice one Dom! Cubase has almost as many hidden gems as 3DS Max... almost.

Finally...Thanx Dom, I always feel motivated and inspired after watching your video's. I think learning how your DAW works streamlines the creative process! There were a few tips I instantly tried out. My "BooM" moment was the hidden controles. Never could figure out how to customise my controles. Thanks Dom.

Thanks so much for this! I only knew of about 4 of the 10, and forgot about 3 of the 4. The rest were totally new to me and I have been a Cubase user for almost 20 years.

you are THE BEST thank you again and again for all your Cubase videos

The Chords tip is cool , I didn’t know about it. The other tips are not new for me but when you put them in the context they became more powerful and want to use them. I wish if you do more videos about the SuperVision, I’m sure when you explain it with a real examples we will appreciate it even more.

Those visual zooms to the right and left Cubase zones are EXTREMELY cool! And seeing your screen that closely is also wonderfully helpful for my aging eyes! 👀😁 Thank you 😎

Step Designer is an interesting tool. All tips are very valuable to do the job easer. Thanks a lot.

Re-record - BOOM!

Thanks Dom! ❤️ Can you make a vid to show how to “glide” an 808 sample - like people do in FL STUDIO? I love cubase and dont want to retoll daw!

This channel is absolute GOLD ❤

BOOM for the re-record fonction 👍🏻😯 BOOM for DOM 🩷🩵 BOOM for Cubase 💕

Great tips, and the versicolor T-shirt is a nice touch...

First one blow my mind... also color changing t shirt 😮😅

Since I started following you last week, I get better at Cubase in a few days, after months of struggling 😅

and the shirt is back

Dom you are awesome ❤❤❤ you changed me a lot, I became a good producer because of you. Million Thanks 🎉🎉🎉

Hey Dom. I just bought my first Cubase 13 Pro, so I am watching all your terrific videos on the amazing features Cubase provides. One comment on the MIDI Step Sequencer that maybe you can suggest to Steinberg is that Cakewalk has a step sequencer that does some amazing things that I wish Cubase could emulate. The Cakewalk step sequencer allows you to create ""flam" hits for drums like snares, and it allows you to set a probability for any particular note to be played (or not). That allows you to create some beats that are dynamic in the sense that some notes are there some of the time only, giving a stiff drum pattern some random variations. An even better feature would be to make the Velocity of any note, a random value between 2 set values. Please consider feeding this suggestion to Steinberg. Thank you for the great videos.

The "Re-Record" is definitely a BOOM! tip!

best teacher DOM BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

You’re a saviour!!!

Honestly I did not know any of them!. thanks Dom!

You're the bomber, Dom 😉

I've been using Nuendo (Cubase's big brother) for over 20 years, and every time I watch Dom, I learn something new. . . . thanks Dom!

As a Cubase user for some time this is OUTSTANDING. Zillion thanks Dom.

Hi Dom - "Re-Record" was absolutely a BOOM for me. I'll be using it during my very next track session, and beyond. Re: "Constrain Delay Compensation" - - I never took time to understand that it's less complicated than I thought. It's mostly a nice convenience tool for live tracking/recording when a project is already full. Nice :-) The copying of a plug-in setting is handy, and I'm sure many will like it a lot. I still prefer to save any good setting as a preset, then launch the plug-in and select the preset. GREAT video once again! Keep them coming.

Boom shakalaka! 😊

Dom bringing the pure gold!

Very useful video, I learned a lot! It seems "expand routing" and "copy/paste settings" are the only tricks here that I knew about. :D I use copy/paste settings all the time since Cubase 10. I've been using Cubase since early 2006.

Thanks for the useful tips Don. New to me were the chord input function (although I'm a midi head from the eigthies, so I knew the midi step sequencer already from SX). New to me was also the Pulteq EQ curve in the standard EQ, also with curve IV. And Rerecord is a time saver, although Ctrl + Z worked a lot quicker already, compared to stop, delete, go the start en hit Record again. The . button for bars/seconds is new to me and copy plugin settings by right clicking in the mixer slot. So it was an educating video. Keep up the good work 🙂

Thank you, Dom. After 20 years with Cubase, I'm still a learner, and always appreciate what you do!

DOM a.k.a. The Chameleon , nice content 👌 😉

Rerecord is definitely a boom moment. Thank you

I can't work without Selected track enlarge setting on. VERY useful to easy workflow and follow at what track am I at the moment. Same as "locate when clicked in empty space. :)

That chord editing tip is a real beauty! Thank you so much

While I am well aware of chord creation feature (and I keep forgetting to use it 😆) I didn't know that you can change chord types with and Alt key and mouse drag. Thank You Sir for this tip!!

Hi Dom ! Thanks for these tips. The re-record I am already using since years constantly 🙂

Thank you very much! Not only for this content but for everything you do. I learned a lot from your content and you always transmit such good vibes! Take care.

Great stuff!

Awsome!!

Those videos are really helpful … and I wonder if anybody has started creating some kind of searchable index for them. More often than not, I find myself thinking: Dom sure has a video with a hint on this - I sure watched it, but which one was it? 😅 Anyway, thank you very much for investing the time to create these videos!

Seriously, I always go into a video titled like this with a food in my hand just playing in the backround and end up sitting down wit a notepad. Cheers Dom 👍👍👍

Since I am not a keyboard player, using the chord options is great timesaver for me. For this, I no longer have to use step entry and I can adjust the chords to the rhythmic value I want. Thank you for the great idea.

A good addition would be if the plugin with automation in the insert was highlighted in a different color

Amazing stuff!!! Thank you!!!

Love these kind of videos.............THANKS Dom

Constrain delay compensation! Sheesh. I was using this in sort of a hacky, random way. Thanks for clarifying. The copy setting tip will also be useful. Great video.

Cool!

Always so much helpful information! THANK YOU!!!

very nice, thanks !!!

I liked all the booms!! Excellent thanks a bunch

Great tips but anyone realized how his t-shirt changes its color? Amazing!!!

As always, I learned something new!!!

Awesome video Dom!!!

Pure GOLD. Thanks Dom.

Thanks ! I didn't know: re-record and the alt key + moving cursor to change the chord type

Thanks a lot for great tips!

Thanks Dom! Always useful to watch your videos💥

Great video Dom Thanks :-)

These are all super valuable tips!

The icon tip is amazing. Thanks Dom!

Excellent tips!

Perfekt

There is a hidden feature in Cubase that I discovered recently, which was making me upset about my mixing in cubase and this is the “sends follow pan” on the top right settings of the channel window. I dont know if maybe this was added in cubase 13 or It was before but… life saver!!!🎉🎉

Thanks Dom!!!!!!!!!!

Very useful

Thank you so much🙏

Fantastically helpful, Dom! Thank you so much!

Amazing channel 🙏🏽⚡️

Dom love your video But can you when you are showing this stuff Some of these functions are not on all cubase versions Can you explain when you are showing us which of these functions apply to which versions of cubase

Amazing tips! Thank you Dom❤️

Thanks again Don!!

Thanks for all your content, pure gold!

Thank you Dom!!!!

Great Tips

Great stuff Dom, that last tip was really useful! Cheers Dave

Thank you Dom great tips 👍