Hey Dom - As well as being able to rename each row/lane in the drum editor it's worth a mention that you can also drag and drop the rows to change the order they display from top to bottom. I love to use this feature to make the rows display more like a drum score with the kick drum at the bottom, snare in the middle and cymbals at the top. It just makes everything a bit more visual if you are working from score - I also prefer to think of the pitches of the drums or even the visual appearance of an acoustic kit with kick low down, the toms and snare in the middle and the cymbals up high. You can do this really easily in the Drum editor. Changing the order the rows appear by dragging them doesn't change the note the they trigger from the drum map; just the orders they appear in.
I will never RTFM, but I will watch Dom Sigalas videos! This is great condensed information by presenting use cases. I have bought Cubase tutorial videos before, but it has never felt wholesome, as the presenter skipped over features rather quickly if he didn't use it personally. Feature request: have a Dom SIgalas, Chris Selim or Greg Ondo video under every topic in the manual of Cubase. Having the features explained is one part, but getting it presented with real use cases is another level.
Again a great one. Thank you Dom. "Independent Rack Loop" - if I only had known about it earlier 🤔 Although - talking about VST3 - IMHO you forgot to mention the "Generate Drum Map from Instrument" feature - this is extremely useful e. g. when you put together very large sets with your favourite drum samples in - let's say - Groove Agent.
Thanks again Dom for show all these Drum editor features that I forgot about did'nt know existed It makes Cubase invailuable adds so much to creativity to my work flow. I still get excited about cubase.People who are into Harware never realize that DAW software Cubase can make you feel the same way.For me more so.
That was an eye-opener Dom. So many features that were hidden under the "skins" 🙂 Thank you for taking the time to make this wonderful videos and sharing.
Thank you for making these great videos. You really help me to find small things in Cubase that makes me love cubase even more. In this case I knew the drum editor quite well and also made a drum map for my TR8S but never had an idea of Independent Track loop excisted, also to show the note lengths is for me a better taste and not to mention to isolate and only show used keys! You are important for the cubase team and making this product even more understood! Thanks alot for your videos!
Thanks Dom. Maybe make a video showing how to map the drum editor to specific VST or Kontakt drum instruments, so that the editor automatically puts the correct drum names for the instrument on that track.
I cant believe this. Ive been using Cubase for almost two decades. Now that my MIDI Keyboard is having trouble connecting, I had to program my drums this way. WOW all this time I probably could have saved some time by programing my drums, instead of playing them out.
I have used the drum editor post production and now with all the features that you showed us I will try flipping the order and program then embellish. Thanks
I have been using Cubase since 90s and in those days, most of our time went into drum programming. I have learnt how to do bunch of stuff standard midi key editor, and I must admit that for years, I was ignoring drum editor. I don't have much need for it, I sequence most of my drums from exteral sequencers, but this editor is really time saving for those that sped hours fine tuning Superior Drummer.
Actually used the Drum Editor all the way back to the Atari ST Cubase 1.0 version! The fantastic thing is that this is probably the editor that has changed the least of all the editors that still remain from the 1.0 version(because it was so great from the get go to do a very specific task). I think most if not all the functions shown here (minus the one related to virtual instruments signaling) already was there with the 1989 1.0 version. The drumstick editing with the diamonds, the individual snaps (in a quantize column back then, but the same), the velocity levels drawing at the bottom and the individual loops within the edit window.... all there even back then! (don't remember if all the keyboard shortcuts were there though) You can just imagine how absolutely fantastic that first version of Cubase was when it was released.
This is so coooool! I knew to loop outside the actual time line. But not that you can uuse Drum Editor. From now on. -I ❤️ Drum Editor. It’s so difficult to get a steady groove in many cases the lack of feeling. And it’s very nice to be free from the metronome.
Thanks, yet again very helpful. I've been using the Drum Editor for years and years now, but you've still managed to show me great features that I had no idea existed. Also, your videos are enjoyable to watch and perfectly paced
Lots of useful information, thanks! I’d never heard of the independent track loop! HOWEVER, this video assumes Cubase has the map for your vsti. This is something I have not solved satisfactorily for my favourite, Superior Drummer 3. Perhaps you could give us some tips for an easy way to create maps for drum vsts with a huge number of articulations?
My jaw dropped to the floor when you made the drum editor loop play on with the track! Argggghhhhhhh. Has this always been there? Been using Cubase for 19 years. Feel like such an idiot.
The whole reason I haven't been using the drum editor is because I thought you couldn't use the global quantize. It was always defaulted to "snap from drum map." I even asked in a club cubase and they said it wasn't possible at the moment. I guess I should have read the manual but thank you so much. I always learn something new from your videos.
Thanks Dom. Great video. I use the drum editor but I have yet to find an easy way of selecting specific notes - for example I often want to select alternate high hat hits to have alternating velocity. Is there any way to do this apart from drawing the velocities in manually.
Oh mann!! That’s an awesome tutorial and now I want to play with modern 80’s kit! Also nice simple loop that you created for this tutorial! Wonder how you got just 56k subscribers. You deserve more😍
Hello Dom, Could you make tutorial about using REX file in cubase mediabay + groove agent. Don't know why my rex file in mediabay are playing too fast - whatever tempo is the project
I always use the drum editor for drums. Why was there no shortcut before? Enter Dom, who showed me at least 10 things I didn't know about it. Thanks Brother.
I never knew about the independent track loop! 🤯😱 I also never used the drum editor because something about those little diamonds didn't feel right with me-idk why🤣 I'm going to use it all the time now that I knowI can switch it to the bar mode
I'm working with Cubase since version 4 and I'm very happy with what it is today. Best DAW. But with drums it been allways a pain to make them sound natural. Thats why I make drums allways in FL Studio. Swing in FL does something I cant achieve with the Cubase swing.. drum samples hit different. Very nice randomize functions in FL and so on. I wish Cubase will improve because I hate to switch to FL and export back to Cubase.
Oh Wow!! The "Show drum sounds in use by instrument" resolves such an obvious annoyance that I've had for years. So much exciting info here. Sometimes we weekend warriors have such limited time that we say "I'll search for a solution later" and then don't get to it for quite some time.
Thanks Dom. Did not know that. Have not used the Drum Editor, but now cannot wait. Question, are there limits on the Cubase 10.5 version that came with my Yamaha MODX?
Thank you for this! You know what's missing from this? Ordering the instruments by name. It would be nice to have everything grouped in this case. All the toms, snares, hi-hats, cymbals. Or is there such feature?
Great vid i love the drum editor in cubase! the drum editor works great with drum maps for external drum machines too. i set up a template for my tr626 and its much nicer doing drums in the drum editor. i also love being able to dissolve midi events to split to seperate tracks in cubase , makes adding extra layers super easy :)
Great video sir! A couple of points: something that's annoying is that, say you want to draw in a house open hat by clicking and dragging. Well, you can't, because the quantize you want is quarter notes, but they need to start on an 8th note (relative to the bar start). So actually, on the left, where "snap" is, you want a second option box which specifies the snap value of the note start. Secondly: towards the end of the vid, you show how to hide most of the useless notes by clicking the pitch visibility button. What you didn't show was that if you then delete the dummy notes that you drew in to keep them visible, that midi note stays visible for when you actually want to add a note there. "Great", you think. Problem is, if you were to hide the drum editor, then re-open it, you'll find those notes (that contain no drum hits) will be hidden. Why-o-why doesn't Steiny let us hide the unused notes manually?
Thank Dom for all you do! We very appreciate you! I got a question that's not related to this video about cubase 12 That will be out next year. I've seen a lot of changes that will be made. I am very very concerned! I saw that they were talking about getting rid of the usb elicenser, that's a big concern of mine. Can you give us more details about that?? And also the grace period that they were talking about too please and thank you!
