The MIDI Super Tool NOBODY tells you about! 

Thank you so much for the kind words Mario! Glad the videos are useful!!!

@@DomSigalas I have a sincere question for you: Is it possible to automate the "MIDI Mute" button that is responsible for notes being read on the arranger page with Cubase? With all the MIDI capabilities that Cubase has, I sure hope so, because I'm in the market for a new DAW. I have used Cubase before, but several things have been upgraded since I last used it. I've been using Studio One, but lately I seem to have outgrown it. I'm asking about "MIDI Mute" button automation because I'm a multi-instrumentalist, but my favorite instrument is organ. At home I use a keyboard z-stand and easily split and layer different instruments across my three keyboards. For my keyboard stack, I keep my 64 note keyboard on top, my 88 note keyboard below that, and my 17 note organ style foot pedal keyboard on the floor. Being an organist and also having dexterity on several instruments, I can play entire MIDI arrangements, anything I can think of, on-the-fly using my "virtual organ" setup. After recording the initial instrumentation I've played using my "Virtual Organ" setup, I then go back and flesh out the music by adding live lead/rhythm/guitar(s), bass guitar, drums, saxophone, or whatever else fits the arrangement. I'll usually start with a click track, get a groove going, and work out a few changes. Once I'm in the groove, I'm ready to record. The problem I'm having is that I tend to hear everything at once. So, the hardest thing for me is deciding what order to arrange the changes in. This is the part in Studio One that takes me "out of my zone" and instantly dries up any creative juices that I may have had flowing. In Studio One arranging means using "the (dreaded slow-motion) mouse" and moving things around slowly and meticulously, sometimes note by note to ensure the transitions are smooth. Using "the (dreaded slow-motion) mouse", I tend to have already forgotten what order I want to play the different instruments and changes in. If it was possible to automate the "MIDI Mute" button, I could arrange on the fly, just like I recorded the instrumentation, with no down-time! So, I need to be sure the next DAW I decide to invest my money in includes the ability to automate the "MIDI Mute" Button for quick and easy MIDI sequence editing/arrangement on the fly. You might ask, "Why do I need the ability to automate the "MIDI Mute" button? Why isn't being able to automate the "Audio Mute" button on most DAW mixers good enough. Well, the "MIDI Mute" button actually controls when MIDI notation is read. So, being able to automate it amounts to controlling the rhythmic phrasing of the instrument being played; while "Audio Mute" amounts to a sound engineer cutting your microphone on and off as musically as they can. It's not a big deal until you consider the fact that most VST instrument release times can be extended. Most present day VST instruments also come with their own built in reverb and delay effects, especially software emulations of boutique hardware, which tends to impart a specific sonic character that is desirable over factory effects. Those things should not be cut off by a sound engineer, unless the style of music necessitates glitch or stutter effects. I have decided to share a video as an example of just how much time is saved by having the ability to automate the MIDI Mute button, instead of traditional copy/paste. The video starts by showing the ease of use differences inherent of "MIDI Mute" VS "Audio Mute", with time stamps in the "Show More" section below the video, but real time 1-take actual use of the MIDI Mute Workflow starts at 00:01:55. MIDI Mute V.S. Audio Mute Time Stamps: 00:00:00 MIDI Mute of Kick [Example 1A - Drums] 00:00:15 Audio Mute of Kick [Example 1B - Drums] 00:00:40 MIDI Mute of Strings [Example 2A - Strings] 00:01:00 Audio Mute of Strings [Example 2B - Strings] 00:01:27 MIDI Mute of Bass [Example 3A - Bass] 00:01:44 Audio Mute of Bass [Example 3B - Bass] 00:01:55 MIDI Mute Workflow [Example 4 MIDI Mute Workflow In Action] So, does Steinberg Cubase offer MIDI Mute automation? If so, please let me know by posting a video of this workflow in action. You'll have at least one new customer if it does. Thank you for your time! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OOrUk-X5zwU.html

Not a Cubendo user, but from what I've observed, can you not unlink your copy-pasted clips/events to no longer be a "shared event", thus not duplicating the controller data? Currently kicking the tyres from afar, so I may be wrong.

@@HammyHavoc when you copy a clip they are not linked together unless you group them. So yes you can do that. But I vastly prefer to have controller automation appear as a dedicated lane in the main arrangement window. Just my preference but you can work either way.

What is Atari?

@@InnerSyncMusic ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YQvpgqEjpVY.html

Hey man! Who were you? I am trying to connect the dots between the person- RU-vid username hahaha 😂

@@DomSigalas Yep, the audio eng Dom. I had my infamous black Synthex Tee on, sky blue back pack. Came over to you just after noon time! 😉👍

@@theaudioeng aaaah so good to see you there! ❤️ great show right?

Thank you my friend!

Not a Cubendo user, but can you elaborate a little more on what you mean by "even more detail"? More features, or size/scale of the UI? Or both? Just trying to see how it handles MIDI differently to other DAWs.

@@HammyHavoc sure, yes not really more features, but I find it much easier to manage CC data in the automation lanes in the project window. Drawing curves and using the drawing tools is easier with resizing, you have the visibility functions like ‘show all automation’ (you can set up template views for this’, I just prefer it rather than squeezed into the midi editing windows

Great question!

You know about the Logical Editor, the original MIDI one. That's as close you'd get in Cubase for SQL. You get criteria for selecting and transforming notes and controllers. You can also extract the notes to a new tracks/parts that you can colorize and then you can display the notes in any Key Editor with the color of the part. Select all the colored parts and open them in an editor and you're in rainbow land. There are also Key Commands for jumping to next and previous parts and if you locked the editor to only edit the selected part you can move back and fotth in one part at a time and move the notes around to your liking without e.g. jumping from the lead notes to the chord notes, since only the lead notes are editable. That's Cubase!

@@HowlingUlf List edit (grid edit - Atari) + Logical Edit is what makes Cubase King of midi. Its really usefull as you in list edit can also see key off velocity if you have synths that responds to this. So easy to fast put in eg a drum part, and use a logical preset to let it live. And if you are a real midi pro you can put sysex commands directly in list edit, which is really nice if you have older synths that often had hidden edit options that were only available as sysex commands, like the Roland GS compatible synths that were ony preset sounds ootb, but opened up as an almost full blown synth with adsr with nrpn commands and sysex.

Have you mentioned this to Steinberg on their forum? They seem very welcoming to feedback and feature requests.

As someone looking to jump ship to Cubendo, this is easily worth a few hundred bucks to me.

TouchOSC

@@braunhausmedia Hans says it is a custom system by Mark Wherry, who also works at RCP.

Spot on!

Check my video about the midi remote in Cubase 12 :)

@@DomSigalas Thanks Dom :)

It's layered: OB6, Juno106, Reface DX :)

@@DomSigalas Thanks 😊

Yes, I created one - I have Control-Enter for mine :)

it's called Open/Close Editor under Editors folder in key commands

@@Ravez77 not sure what I did before, but it wasn't this. Thanks!

Watch the full video :) Then try and do what I'm doing in Ableton. :)

Hey my friend! I really appreciate the time it took for you to write this. I’m may say it a lot on my channel but I own pretty much every DAW out there. FL studio is a really enjoyable DAW to use and has some really nifty features in the midi editor side of things (808 glides etc). But I personally don’t find it faster. This is because I work with multiple music genres every day- not just electronic music where everything has to be on the grid. With FL studio I find that it helps you be very mechanical and pushes you towards this direction - but this is great because it works for these music genres. But when you work with orchestral libraries, things that need to be played with emotion and a bit of looseness, I need something like Cubase. Expression maps, all the things I showed on this video, the logical editor that allows you to do super complex midi functions with one keystroke make it indispensable for me. I Am also not a fan of switching DAWs at all. And I would never mix in FL studio (I’m 100% honest here). But this is just me and my needs as I go from electronic music to orchestral writing, mixing and mastering multiple times throughout a working day. If FL studio makes you work faster then more power to you! Choosing a DAW is such a personal thing - whatever makes you more creative and efficient. If you’ve found that the sweet spot is FL and Cubase I applaud you for that- you didn’t choose blindly :)

@@DomSigalas I mostly agree with you mate. Like I said, and shown in this video, there are many things in Cubase, which is not present in other piano rolls. I have used every DAW and completely loved Cubase. I mostly work in acoustic genres that requires a lot of recording. And obviously FL Studio is not even close when it comes to recording or mixing or using stock plugs. That's is why now I produce completely in Cubase for last few years. Who likes changing DAWs ☺️ But ya, for piano roll note entry or midi editing, FL is faster for me. Intelligent cursor saves a lot of time, slightly off grid, expression maps, note by note editing, no problem. For everything else, it's always Cubase, 10 out of 10 times. It's just my humble opinion. Cheers!