MIDI Sequencing
Designed for discerning composers and musicians, Cubase Essential 4 offers versatile, easy-to-use tools and editors for MIDI sequencing and composition. You can import MIDI parts via drag & drop or play on a connected keyboard MIDI and record parts directly. Various highly versatile editors put numerous tools at your fingertips; they afford you access to every conceivable MIDI parameter for purposes of further processing.
Key Editor
The graphical Key editor lets you intuitively generate and process notes and other MIDI events such as velocity or MIDI controllers.
Score Editor
The Score Editor lets you view and edit MIDI data as musical notation. A few clicks are all it takes to adapt the view to show recorded MIDI performances correctly and print them on demand. Handy functions such as display quantization and transposition make this task even easier.
Drum Editor
The Drum Editor was developed for special drum sequencing tasks - complete drum tracks can be easily created here with only a few mouse clicks. An individual drum map can be created for each instrument in the project.
MIDI Effects
Cubase Essential 4 offers numerous MIDI effect plug-ins for every MIDI track, including creative tools such as an Arpeggiator, a MIDI Pattern Sequencer and a MIDI Chord Processor, as well as functional plug-ins such as a MIDI compressor for equalizing velocity variance and a Context Gate for selective MIDI data triggering/filtering. 15 different MIDI effect plug-ins are available. You can insert most effects directly while playing and of course automate them as well.
Quantization Functions
Alongside standard quantization options for fixing mistakes, Cubase Essential 4 offers special quantization functions that you can use for creative purposes. Ultra precise quantization right on the beat usually sounds stale. Cubase Essential 4 solves the problem by letting you do things like exempt selected notes from the quantization operation or automatically generate random mistakes. Twist the Swing knob, and the position of every other note is shifted slightly in the grid to create swinging or shuffled grooves.
