Chunks feature a la Digital Performer

Frank_Heller · March 3, 2018, 8:12am

HowlingUlf:

Yeah, and the multiple projects worked great in Cubase Atari, even with different tempi!

The great thing about Cubase Group Tracks was that you could create a maximum mix of everything you needed in let’s say section A B and C or verse, chorus and bridge if you will.
Then you just selected some basic parts for the start of the song and then add as you go.
You select a few parts from the A part, create a Group with a name from that selection, and place it on a Group Track in the same project or in another project.
All you have is this named little Group that you could place wherever you wanted and the mess was kept to a minimum.
Now do the same with section B and then back to section A where you decide you want to add a piano so you create a new Group.
At this point you have three groups. One built on B and two built on A.
The parts in the Groups where live so let’s say you wanted to edit the piano in Group A you opened the piano part and all Groups that contained that piano part was updated.

I feel kind of stuck with the stack created now in Arranger Tracks so I don’t use them very often.

Exactly. Infinitely more versatile, intuitive and elegant than the Arranger Track scheme we’re stuck with these days. We lost this with the introduction of the SX series, along with a ton of other features, some of which eventually found their way back into the program over the years. Too bad this one never made it back.