Essential Cubase Key Editor Overview. Best MIDI editing capabilities of any DAW! 

In 8 years post-secondary Jef was the best professor I ever had. So glad these videos are here! If anyone ever gets the chance to learn from him I recommend it!

Mastery of the shortcuts makes all the difference with Cubase. Great video, Jef!

Why someone would thumbs down is beyond me.. Honestly Jef.. I am so grateful for you taking the time in creating these amazing tutorial videos while carefully explaining all these otherwise hidden features in Cubase so brilliantly. I started producing back in 89 with the Alesis HR-16 drum machine & MMT-8 so whenever you get into MIDI I'm taken back to those early years with a new excitement for creating music again and have you to thank for this! Keep up the wonderful work and speaking of the Alesis HR-16 which I haven't played with since 1993.. I just purchased the Maschine Mk3 because of you!

These are by far the best, most professional tutorial videos on RU-vid. Thank you very much.

You're the best, one video to another you are simply, direct and the most greater teacher ever! Thanks to you and your best videos on youtube!

Jef, this is exactly what I needed, having moved from using Logic Pro and needing to familiarize myself with Cubase as quickly as possible. Clear, comprehensive and presented engagingly with professional presentation (both the audio and video aspects). Terrific - so thank you very much. I have subscribed and will be listening to your other videos. Greetings from Wales, UK.

Dude your studio is amazing!❤️

This guy has got to be the most pleasant guy on the internet...

I'm getting so much stuff from your videos. Logical clear and precise instruction. Brilliant!

1 Person doesn't know a good teacher when they see one. Such great stuff man. Subscribed!

So many tidbits Jef covers here that helps me streamline my workflow in Cubase - the only people that say Cubase is not a powerful DAW obviously have not gone deep enough down into the tunnel with explorers like Jef! Thank you sir - I seem to keep coming back here to learn more things!

Great video. Valuable tips. Thanks a lot! Possible idea for next video could be: what you can do with Cubase "Key commands" which are not default and what functions you have assigned on your Cubase setup and find useful.

Please more cubase videos. Thanks in advance!

Best ever tutorial I've found on this subject. Thanks.

So much essential information, and so fast. I will be returning to this several times. It's also great to hear that you had missed out some of this 'for years' yourself. One essential problem was isolating one or two tracks. I always thought that it was the 'solo' on the main page that was supposed to do this - but of course that didn't work, and I realised it had to be via the Key Editor using its Solo button. Yes, it was about time to use the 'other lanes' for modulating the volume of sustained notes such as strings. I've visual/cognitive problems - and I had to hear someone tell me about it - as I would not see so many extremely small functions that Cubase has. All I need to remember is - search for 'Jef Gibbons and Key Editor' when I get to edit the strings. I also just enjoyed the Kontact tutorial - and how I may have to conserve CPU eventually. [I got my MSI laptop last year - just for music, but I'm not sure of how much capacity one needs for a whole orchestra of instruments with a range of modulation, mixing and other data. [I'm in my sort of second restart with music composition - the first was just MIDI without wave files in Atari C-Lab. Extremely cumbersome stuff in the late eighties! I still hope the builders will arrive to fix the shed up for a proper music studio to set up the old MIDI keyboards - not used in over 15 years.] My immediate 'problem' is still selecting the right complementary range of VST instruments - in one go - and not duplicate stuff. Guy Michelmore uses a Spitfire for 'sketching'. but is this necessary? Wouldn't a complete Kontact library be the most inclusive of orchestra, big band and ethnic sounds? Or do I compliment this with separate orchestral sections of strings, brass etc. - that give a more complete range of articulations? Even off the Internet, having the instruments sampled in a room setting - sounds so much better for real orchestra, piano etc. Yes, many are after free, or low budget purchases, but what should one spend for a range of software that works for professional recordings? Would it be more than US/CAN/AUS $3,000? Or more than $5,000? [I'll still be looking through more RU-vid videos, but there's always new things coming out. Oh, I also would like vocal modulation and correction - especially to layer 'backing vocals', choirs etc. - I'm not sure if you've covered vocal stuff. Maybe, I just have to search through all of your RU-vid clips.

You the only one on RU-vid that i can get the idea from first time u say it 🤔 much love for all helpful tips 💐😊

Very useful information Jeff! Thank you! I haven't used Cubase for 5 or 6 years, so it helps me a lot to get back on track

That's an awesome looking monitor. do you have any info or video on the spec and how to set it up?

Excellent presentation.

Hi Jef! Thank you for your content. Your videos and explanations are top notch! I wish RU-vid would have recommended your channel to me much sooner. I am on my Cubase learning journey and your channel will be a tremendously helpful resource! Thanks a billion!

Many thanks for awesome tutorial.

Great tutorial. The modulation trick you showed has really helped me. Thanks!

Great tutorial - much appreciated!

Just what I was looking for in the Key Editor. You're a lifesaver💯🙌🏾

Thanks Jeff! Would love to see how you use key switches / expression maps in Cubase.

Hi Mr. Jef Gibbons. This was a very interesting and informative video. Ive learned a lot this morning. I learn things from your videos every time I watch any of them. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful time and ideas with us all. I wish you continued success with all of your future musical endeavors. Thank you again for sharing everything.

MIND BLOWN! Thank you! I think my classwork just got waaaay faster.

Very nice, succinct presentation! Looking forward to more!

awesome tutorial- thanks

Great Job! Thank You!

Thanx Jef. Certaily opened my eyes to a few little tricks I never knew about. 😀😀😁

Great tutorial, thanks!

Thanks for the tutorial Jef. You're awesome.

You are awesome man! Not being very technically inclined I have really struggled learning Cubase - have 10.5 version. Completely new to this technology - you cover a whole lot in your videos - i stop and start a lot to take notes. A lot of the training out there is geared toward EDM. I am creating sequences for vocalists to sing to for my church gig, and rather involved ones for the 80's dance band I am in. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for this video! I'm transitioning to Cubase and this was exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks a lot for outstanding and clear tutorials.

Great tips, man! Thank you!

Very helpful. Great tutorial. Thank you very much.

Your videos are great value! Thank you for your time and effort. 👍👍👍

Very useful content. Thank you.

Please! Do a tutorial on program changes in both the key editor and the line editor! This has been stopping me dead in my tracks for months. I have many midi files that need program changes within individual tracks and I keep getting anomalies where things change by themselves! Your teaching is so clear and understandable to me (Do you do individual tutoring?)that I hope that you can find the time to do the requested tutorial. Thanks so much, I've learned a lot from you.

Very informativ and easy to understand...super

Excellent Video. Can you do a in depth video on the Logic Editor? Thanks

Thanks so much Jef!!

Nice, you should do more of Cubase videos and tutorials and key commands :)

Brilliant video......

thank you

Thank you so much. I'm still learning something.

Great attention to detail!

Really wish Ableton has the colour options 😭 I'm going to start using cubase and that's one of the reasons lol

THANK YOUUUU

Hey plz also make a video on the Midi Logical Editor.

Nice one, Prof G :)

great Tutorial! Thank you.Instantly added a link to here to the Cubase Hangout Discord!

Thanks Jef from the Canary Islands and take care !!!

The word you were looking for regarding scaling the velocities was "proportional" scaling. :)

Thank you very much.

Very nice n fantastic. Thank you very much.

Awesome video..❤❤❤

Thank you so much!!! :)

Thank you so much❤️❤️ This is going to help me a lot❤️

Thanks Jef. I never understood why people only showed Pitch instead of Velocity in the editor, but your explanation made perfect sense - thanks for the tip. Do you have any suggestions on how to efficiently edit Sustain data, especially if it's a long piano piece? My pedal playing is not perfect and that seems to take a significant amount of time to edit.

I've been using Cubase since it first came out but I have tended to fall into patterns of workflow which aren't all that optimal. Watching your video has been quite the refresher course. Cheers. On another 'note', I'm currently using 3 large monitors but I think I prefer your setup. Can you tell me what your monitor spec is, Jef?

Thank you, that was verry helpfull.

Hello I am willy van jaarsveld and live in the Netherlands so my English language is not that good. But I like to look at your vidio,s about qbase very professional with a clear explanation and good vidio images and your voice can also be Perfect to heard thank you for that

thank you so much!!

Hi, Jef. I've returned to revue this. I still have to open two tracks into one key editor - to change harmonies, or see which notes are 'clashing'. Because of flat ninths, grace notes etc. I wouldn't use the chord track for this. I'm finding on careful listening, just because notes are playing the right notes in a chord, the chord or arpeggio/rhythm may be the wrong inversion of the chord or need the more irregular seventh or augmented fifth chord notes etc. rather than the tonic, third or fifth note of a scale. Often, I need to delete notes or reduce their volume in chords. Using full [block] chords may be a bad habit from organ lesson days, rather than the arpeggios that piano pieces have. Even when several parts, such as bass and treble clef on the same piano, are recorded together on one track, I find I want to separate them on different tracks to later assign different instrumentation. From one piano track, I can then reassign piano bass to a bass instrument or copy and edit a second bass to strengthen that. I then can use the iterative quantise on the length of the bass in the Inspector window, or highlight parts of it in the editor page. [I haven't worked out if I have a reasonable compressor free with Cubase to use on a booming bass yet. However, I'm highlighting groups of bass notes to uniformly reduce the volume levels. I'll rewatch this video again, as I need to see where I switch this to a percentage reduction of note volume. With visual problems in the area of small icons, I appreciate that someone can tell me where all the stuff is, such as iterative quantise. I have a problem of accidently changing settings. Except for the occasional grace notes or similar irregular notes off the beat, to get a clear sound in the mix, it seems clear that one can't over-quantise - if our playing skills tend to be ahead or late in timing. However, it's good to see what kind of a rhythm or swing one is trying to make naturally. Quantising may place a note in the wrong groove. As for colours, I'm getting used to the irregular spacing of notes over the octave in the key editor and also have the notes large enough to have the name on them. Even though the volume at the bottom of the page appears fine to view volume levels, for me, it is the colouring of their volume that alerts me the note volume levels are often too high from the start and restricting the volume range. I will find how to change editing volume to a percentage. There are just so many small grey-toned icons in Cubase that need practising to become automatically used. Thanks for all the very useful stuff - that can't be taken for granted. [P.S. Where I do like to use colour creatively is when colourising the chord track chords. perhaps if the note editor used our own chord colour-schemes, we'd be able to see if notes are in the right chord. However, I'm at the stage of just listening to what I've put together, and finding many clashes, not just with wrong or extra notes - but notes that are wrong for an instrument with odd or individual overtones [timbre] etc.]

Coolness, thanks for these 🎹!

Insightful

What is that monitor you have? Looks amazing.

Hi Jeff great as always, any chance of explaining EQ settings I know you've done some stuff on this before,but I'm referring to setting every instrument to a different frequency so they don't clash IE if you have a sub bass , a bass guitar , and a synth bass rather than just guessing is there a figure EG: 80 hertz etc. that you can input. thanks again.

Hi Jeff , thanks again very useful information, I have the same speakers a you do you have any tips as to setting them up on the back IE: volume ,db etc: Thanks.

Jeff , what monitor or tv or you using ? Great tutorials!

outstanding !!

Thanks Jeff... this is great, I learned some really valuable workflow tips. A question: what is the best way to build off a note? What I mean is, say I want to make a chord. I have the root and I want to add a third in above it. Everything is how I want it with the root note, I want to copy that note and replicate all the details in the same position but higher or lower. Is there a way to select a note, copy it and move it easily? Doubling an octave would be a good example of this. Right now it seems difficult, but I think I am missing something. Thank you for your help.

very informative!

Great content what a wakeup for me thankx jef

Hi Jef, slightly off topic question...what computer monitor are you using? Looks gorgeous!

Thanks! I'm currently researching a replacement/alternative to Studio One. Though I didn't see much here not available in S1, Cubase's mixer and a few other features are looking great. If not for the dongle requirement, I would've already made the move. I'm out of USB slots, so I'd need a hub just to use Cubase. I see you have a Cubase playlist. I'll be going through it.

Hi! Thanks for the video! What's the display's resolution?

There’s no an easy way where we can link maschine to cubase? I know u have a video on your channel but i was wondering nothing has changed since last time!

Hi Jeff would it be possible for you to do a video on how we could use the maschine mk3 as a controller for Logic Pro x so I don’t need a keyboard as well as my maschine controller. Thanks in advance David.

Wish the listen function would work in the key editor. The keyboard shortcut doesn't work.

Hello, I have a track with 2 MIDI inserts. Chorder and Arpache 5. I made a basic sequence of chords with 1 note from chorder and modified it to a single note melody with Arpache and i need score editor to display the melody made with Arpache 5. When I open Score Editor I cant seem to find the sequence of individual notes made with Arpache 5. Is there a way to read the MIDI inserts changes with Score Editor? I cant seem to find any info. Thanks a lot.

Hey jeff. I don't know what the chances are that you're going to see this, but I recently upgraded to Cubase 13 Pro. I've been following you for years and your tutorials are always something I save and refer to. I wonder if you might have some suggestions about a variety of preferences for the mini editing part of the program for pc like Windows 10. I've got a feeling you have Apple products so I'm not sure what I'm asking for is even very likely. I'm trying to use my midi and I'm coming across some odd things that don't jibe with online tutorials. I think I need some basic setup tips to get the most out of this thing. Thank you in advance if you have any videos to which you could direct me.

Hi Jef, with film scoring, is there a way to create a macro that adds a marker and reassigns the markers's ID, so reorders them again when adding a marker?

Jef - Great video. Im a long time Cubase user (I think first version was like 6 Professional). I have noticed in 10.5 that i cant select audio events and operate on them, while the play head is going. Is this something that changed? I used to be able to grab events and open the note editor, etc while the song was playing back, but now Cubase is resisting the selection while play is running.

hello i would like to know if cubase already has piano roll strumizer? thanks

Waiting to upgrade my Mac, but I have to buy a new one and they are not cheap. If I was thinking of getting a PC which one or have one built? I use Logic, but does Cubase run in Logic and is it more interesting to use than Logic itself?

hello, how do you change the key signature of the notes from sharps to flats?

is there another way to strumming midi notes except using the trim tool?

MIDI king since Atari

How can I loop a piano roll midi when set over several bars? E.G. I set 4 bars from 1 to 5 and set one midi piano bar at the first bar only, so the other three will repeat?

Thank you sir ❤❤❤

NICE

you buy the material acoustic behind the adam speakar? I need something like this to absorve the bass (Whoof) against the wall!

How can I make the piano keys at the bottom of VST visible?

My biggest problem with page scroll in edit mode is the disappearing hair cursor bug (cursor turn grey).. so far no workaround for me except use the stationary mode.

Can we assign a short cut key to acoustic feedback yet?

Jef, PLEASE HELP!!! PLEASE explain time signature. I don't understand how to create a song with particular rhythms. I get 4/4 and the simple divisibles, but I began writing a song which turned out to be clearly country (that's been happening to me for some reason lately) and when I hear it in my head, it sounds a certain way. I am not interested into forcing it to be what it's not. So I need to figure out how to give it a certain swing which I can only imagine is in time signatures.