Tips Tricks And Workflow Goodness

Wow, how long has this one been hidden from the general public?
Haven’t been able to do this since Nu2 and I’ve missed it badly.
Has this been there all along?
Let’s hear it for Steinberg’s documentation!

Thank you so much for this one!
I have brought this up before but no one ever had an answer.
I thought they did away with it.

it’s been this way as far as i can remember. i habitually try all different modifiers on various controls, it’s usually faster then reading the manual which is lacking sometimes.

the issue is, there’s no KC assignable to opening the GUIs of all the inserts on a channel. (there are, however, individual generic remote commands to open insert #1, insert #2, and so forth.)

there is, however, a KC to ‘close all’ plugin GUIs that are currently opened on the screen, at once. pretty handy. (ie. the same as going shift+left mouse click on any ‘e’ button in the arrange. found under “mixer > windows: close all plugins”.)

what you’re in fact describing is the “size objects>common position” modifier. (“select full vertical” is handy for moving around chunks of the whole arrange.)

Attach one of those alarms for keys that beeps when you whistle. But turn it off while mixing, else it might be triggered by something in the mix.

i think a new section on the manual or a separate PDF of all Tips and Tricks could be very refreshing way on how to work more efficiently.


Well… i was more thinking of steinberg to put all Tip and Tricks known by them… its their software i guess they know all of the tricks… :exclamation:

That assumes they defined ALL the possible usage scenarios, and PREVENTED ANY others, otherwise just providing a whole bunch of facilities will guarantee that there will be a myriad of things users will be able to do that were never thought of in the design.

im just saying there are good tricks not documented or documented here and there , its good to know them… the user can use them(or not) and also use their own methods and have suggestions too… there is no conflict here.

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Hi All,

Just a little bump to let you know I’ve updated the post to include the last weeks or so worth of helpful stuff from you to you and sorry it took a while for me to get onto it.

Massive thanks to all those who add their expertise to this.

Also apologies to those tips that aren’t there…some of them are Cubase 6 related or of a more general nature than the post’s intent but are relevant, helpful and definitely appreciated, keep em coming.

Thanks People!

sorry if this has already been done;


Bounce in Place Macro; very useful


http://www.cubasetutorial.net/category/cubase-tutorials/bounce-in-place/



MC

First- Thanks to Rhino for the links. Very helpful info.

Second- could Bane’s ‘The Steinberg Forum Knowledgebase for Users by Users’ be used for this?
There is already a ‘Tips and Tricks’ section.

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Hiya Curteye,

Thanks for the info, I hadn’t found that excellent thread in the lounge, but I was looking for that type of info on Cubase 7 in the Cubase 7 forum, crazy I know.
As you may have noticed, I’m trying to keep all the info in the first post here accessible, C7 specific and ego-less.
I’m happy for this thread to be moved over to the lounge I suppose, but having been lurking this forum in various guises since last century I’d never found that thread and not for a lack of looking.
This one seems to be humming along nicely now and I can’t really see why a C7 specific thread should be moved away from the C7 specific forum.
That said, I will link the knowledgebase thread to the tips post, it looks truly excellent and once again, thanks for pointing it out.
Ohh and I just noticed the tips n tricks section there, is a link to this thread :wink:

Cheers,

Good move Paul. And as you said let’s keep this one going as well.

IMHO it is one of the most useful threads on the site.

A major ‘Mahalo’ for its creation.
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Just noticed this:

BEWARE, don’t choose erase unless you don’t need the files, choose the‘remove from pool’ option. Erase option will send your files to digital heaven. Then choose Save as Template option from the file menu.

I’ve started a thread in the Features and Suggestions list to get this fixed called “Save Template without Media”. If you guys could +1 that thread it would help get this very flawed template problem fixed

thanks

Martin

Shameless bump!
Oh, but I did add some more joy in the first post though…

@ Rhino, ‘backup project’ very frequently used here too, sometimes even for arrangement edits that are undoable… once bitten.
And HDD’s are cheap.

If you require more than 8 Inserts on a track, just route into a clean group channel and add another 8 Inserts…

Macro
I’ve created a macro to see the entire project at once.

Whole Project:
Zoom - Zoom Full
Zoom - Zoom Track Full

It’s my most used macro. Better yet if you assign two KC for Undo Zoom and Redo Zoom. (this way you can use the macro to see your entire project at once and one KC to go back to the previous position.

regards

For me, some of the best tips are keyboard shortcut or modifier keys and are not really hidden but I’ll post them anyways:

-Hold shift + Ctrl, left click and drag up or down on midi event(s) to change their velocities
-Hold Ctrl while resising an event (when snap to grid is enabled) to bypass the snap to grid and resise freely (same thing for moving an event)
-This is simple but a lot of people don’t know about this, use Grid Relative in the snap to grid panel if you want to move events but keep their starting position.
-when using the Range selection tool, hold Ctrl + Shift to select all tracks
-there’s a command called select cursor to end, so if you assign this to a keyboard shortcut and also assign one to split at cursor, you can easily split all files and the select all on the right side of the split to move them
-if you want to delete a section but you want all event after to move where the deleted section is while keeping everything on the grid use the range selection tool while snap to grid is enabled, use the ctrl + shift modifier I talked about to select the part you want to delete (let’s say you delete 2 bars), then go to the snap type in the snap to grid panel and change it to shuffle, then press delete. the 2 bars are gone and all event after moved to the left automatically. Don’t forget to change the snap type again after tho :wink:
-Variaudio shortcuts: press tab to switch between segment and pitch modes, hold ctrl while moving a note to put it perfectly on the pitch, hold shift while moving a note to move it freely
-In mixconsole, alt double click on sends to make the send plugin show up
-Add a Key command to Find track/Channel (in my case it’s F) so when I press F I can start typing the name of a track and it will select it … this is really usefull to find tracks easily in big sessions

I could go on like this but I don’t want to clutter the forum :wink: I hope this will help some of you