Chord Pads: Another incredible Cubase feature!

[@chillindillon1889]

All this time I never knew you could actually play your own chord into the damn thing. Wow!!! Man you have been a blessing. 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿

[@johndesare9153]

Best info on Chord Pad I’ve seen yet….Nice job !

[@njm20music]

now that was tantalising Jef, the prospect of a Video Tut re- jazz chords scales etc👌👌😂😂😂

[@glarrymoreme]

That was a really helpful video, just recording a song now where there is some fast changes which my limited keyboard skills cant quite get to, so this was a really good bit of content - Many thanks

[@jefgibbons]

Most welcome!

[@Loomonauts]

Loving that swag, Jef! Our favourite man with the master plan (and music, and video, and photography, and whatever else you might need guy)!

[@badmilk1735]

Second time watching this and it’s the perfect tutorial. I’d been using Maschine software even tho I had Cubase 11 (because I knew how to get around Maschine) I’ve now got kontrol and Maschine set up in cubase and using chord pads is huge. It’s almost impossible not to start making a song just from searching thru the chords. Thanks Jef

[@jefgibbons]

So true, and helps break you out of creative ruts!

[@badmilk1735]

@@jefgibbons awesome to see you on the native instruments channel!

[@BenvelMusic]

This is sick. I was already good with chord pads but you just added some depth to my knowledge

[@chrisgates7756]

Huge thanks for this video! Very helpful. Cheers

[@umanoid1523]

Neat feature. Not enough for me to ever go back to cubase. I tried using it for years snd it never resonated with me as a DAW. It has been close to twenty years since i looked at it though. lol. Maybe Ill take a look again. I just picked up Scaler 2 which is a pretty amazing plugin for scales. I found just by playing with it Im learning a lot more and it offers a lot of great suggestions for alternate chords and scales.Its incredibly full featured. Ive resigned myself to the fact my understanding of music theory is crap and things like this are very useful in helping me create music. As always thanks for the demo!

[@jefgibbons]

Glad you found something that works! It's great that you are learning from that plug-in... that's the key!

[@peeweegee]

What in the whole heck is this, Mr. Gibbons!! You just changed my ENTIRE Cubase experience. Mind freakin' BLOWN. How did I not know about the live input function?! Sir, you are worth your weight in gold. Thank you so much for all you've taught me. Can't wait to get back north... Dinner's on me, my man!

[@jefgibbons]

Sounds great Jay!

[@jimbaker2565]

Thanks!

[@jefgibbons]

Thanks for the tip Jim!!

[@thaexception3406]

Learned something

[@jefgibbons]

Mission accomplished!

[@robfel68]

Sooooooooooooooo helpful. Thanks JG. Please share some free light chordpacks for Cubase. Greetings from Sweden

[@jefgibbons]

Thanks for commenting! I’ll work on em ;)

[@rich_in_paradise]

The chord pads are great for non-keyboard players, but just playing block chords can make the music a bit lifeless. Could you maybe make a video showing how to edit the recorded midi to sound more like it was played by a keyboard player/pianist? e.g. bringing the notes in one at a time, alternating between the main triad and the root an octave below, etc. Just an idea anyway, thanks for the videos :)

[@angelinagargano3940]

You can assign different players on different instruments and you can import midi loops to play the chords in different styles ...just a sec I will find the video that shows this...

[@CRASS2047]

You can just edit the midi to add flam and make them sound more human

[@jamesj9998]

@@angelinagargano3940 was this a joke or can you actually do that?

[@derekfromtauranga6012]

I tend to use the circle of 5ths on chord track to make up a chord progression. Then you know which chords fit in the scale you are using.

[@seedenrun]

Hi Jef, really enjoying the videos. Do you think you could do an indepth video on Variaudio, that would be really helpful, thanks in advance keep up the good work 👍

[@alirezayousefirad]

Cubase absolutely needs a chord detection function for audio files as good as Studio One

[@jefgibbons]

Ooh I’ll have to check that out!

[@Byron101_]

now we have this feature in Cubase Pro 12. works better then S1.

[@alirezayousefirad]

@@Byron101_ wow good news, thanks

[@MathieuPrevot]

Funny and useful for beginners :) I remarked there is one chord track: what can I do if I have polytonal/polymodal tracks or tracks on differents modes/tones, not necessarity synchronised and I want to follow those chords anyway ?

[@АлександрДевятьяров-е7ю]

Sweet video! Subscribed! Waiting the second one about scales! And is it possible to have assistant on the pads like in the Chord track? Or need to do the chord track and then convert to Pads?

[@jefgibbons]

The chord assistant works in the Pads as well!

[@АлександрДевятьяров-е7ю]

@@jefgibbons thanks for the reply. I was switched from Ableton to Cubase in this summer. Just it was so hard to work with the film scoring in Ableton

[@jefgibbons]

@@АлександрДевятьяров-е7ю Yes, I've been exploring Live and feel like Cubase is the way to go for film scoring for sure! (They all have their strengths)

[@soroushdehbastiandpiano9136]

Thank you very much Jef very useful Video...👏👏👏

[@eldean0]

Always great vids thanks Jeff. Quick question is there a quick way to just load the chord pads in a given scale ? The presets don’t seem to have basic scales.

[@ccris-uu5hj]

Very informative video, but is there a way to make a preset of the newly created chord progression ? Thanks a lot !

[@ContentScientist]

Hello Jef, I'm waiting to hear your response about creating the Chord Pack for the Chord Pads...any updates yet?

[@balacisco]

nice viedo, i am only able operate my kk A61 keys in chord pads section, i cant play my A61 Keys in Halion sonic/Kontakt etc...outside of chord pads section in cubase, please help to resolve

[@NeoONELove]

Can this arpeggiate the chords? That would be really awesome if it could lol

[@satyabanukil779]

Sir, I have simple query. Supposed I manually played a pattern (soul/regge etc.) on a VST Piano (might be any piano from Kontakt or Keyzone) and want that subsequent chords as assigned by me for that song would automatically take the pattern from which I played and play accordingly. Is is possible? If so then a tutorial on that would be quite helpful.

[@njm20music]

Hi Jeff, could you explain, I thought drop voicings was dropping the number of the note in the chord not the degree number, so in Cubase 13 I have Cmaj7 root position, when I use Cubase drop facility, drop 2 drops the G, not as I expected the E, Drop 3 drops the E, Drop 2+4 drops C& G That I don’t understand, have I misunderstood the drop rule ?

[@stephenrudolph1064]

i dont see the green keys on my screen .and when i load PAD REMOTE CONTROL, if i try to change TRANSPOSE UP, ( the displyed key is F2 which is too far up my keyboard (Komplete keyboard contrller)) and i get a message THE REMOTE KEY IS ALREADY IN USE. is this an issue with my controller ?

[@njm20music]

Jef, re the chord track, I play a chord, G3A3,C4,E4, I drag it into the chord track, it plays back as I played it, drag the chord symbol down to the same empty midi track it plays A1 E2 G2 C3, dropping the A&E 2 octaves G&C I octave, is there a way I can get it to reproduce the midi track just as I played it, I have changed a number of Custom Voicing settings without success, hope you can point me in the right direction,

[@Bronwyn031]

Hmmm... kinda like a stripped down version of Captain Chords or Scaler 2; but I suppose free when considered it comes in Cubase.

[@MrScottGlasel]

For the chord pads, do the key switches show up in NKS?

[@yvesleguern]

Great video, thanks ! Quick question : when using chord pads, blue keys and green keys are dedicated to chord functions, but can you use the grey keys (the rest of your keyboard) to play your regular instrument ? like chords on the left hand and melody or impro on the right hand ? For me, the grey keys are muted ... Did I miss something basic ? :-)

[@yvesleguern]

Looks like my problem comes from Cubase Elements. It does not appear in Cubase Pro

[@dkkrecords]

Neat

[@dkkrecords]

jeff without goin' overboard..your stuff on maschine mk3 and here on cubase....totally wicked....i'll drop some chord presets up here in a bit .....the energy n' dry wit you have in these productions is tip top dope.

[@ccris-uu5hj]

Ooops ! Did not see there was a save button. Sorry ...

[@wallot33]

Thank you so much for the other tips I never knew, also I was trying to do add9 chord how do you do it? I used Ezkeys to get the chord sometimes because cubase didn't have add9 chord.

[@bright1180]

Thanks Jef, long term Cubase user here and never used chord pads! You’ve made me want to have a go. Slightly off topic… what storage do you use for all your music software? I have an old garbage can Mac Pro too and the internal ssd is nearly full. Thanks!

[@jefgibbons]

Yeah! I never used it either! For storage I have some old thunderbolt 2 7200 RPM drives, but going to replace with an SSD enclosure and a bunch of SSDs! That’ll port over nicely to a new computer when it comes time!

[@bright1180]

@@jefgibbons Thanks for your reply! I’m thinking an ssd enclosure might be the way forward, if not crazy expensive.

[@jefgibbons]

@@bright1180 Yeah, here's a cheap enclosure I'm looking at! www.amazon.com/Sabrent-2-5-Inch-Tool-Free-External-Enclosure/dp/B08P54YGQX/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Sabrent+USB+3.0+4+Bay+2.5”+Hard+Drive%2FSSD+Docking&qid=1632769140&sr=8-1

[@bright1180]

@@jefgibbons I bet you need it with all the software you review! Thanks for sharing, looks good

[@feiloubeats]

Hi Jeff! I love Chord pads too! But is there a way to make it strum the chords?

[@jefgibbons]

Hmm, let me think on that… there’s always a way with this software!

[@feiloubeats]

@@jefgibbons thank you so much man. Loving the channel!

[@Jellybeantiger]

THERE ARE NO CHORD BLOCKS IN MY CUBASE ,using 12 pro. Reaper blows this Daw away.

[@Jellybeantiger]

Can't get it working,my chord pads tab has no Chord blocks sigh. Reaper is so much better than this DAW.

[@comedycamping4692]

Hi is there anyway to disable chord pads. As it seems to take priority over my key step midi controller. And I only get sounds if I select chord pads as my midi input. But nothing when choosing my key step. Even tho I can see my midi coming in from the key step. Any help would be great I’ve tried everything and can’t seem to get it to work. It was was working fine until I dropped audio on to the chord track to find the chords of a song I was remixing.

[@njm20music]

Hi Jef, am I right in thinking that between the treble clef and bass clef, there's only 3 notes B2 C3 middle C and D3, all other ledger lines are the same note as either in the treble clef or bass clef?

[@sumantramukherjee4113]

thank you so much,but can't activate tension chords like dominant 7th thorough chord editor

[@TheRadicallyHip]

Great tutorial but for the life of me I can't get the bass line to sound good at all.

[@nico5]

Love the information density you've achieved in this video! You're setting a high mark that not many video makers achieve. -- And thanks for the unexpected and much too kind shout-out!

[@jefgibbons]

Thanks Nico, and my pleasure getting you in there! One day I need to get you on camera ;)

[@darchy4314]

What a great video. Thank you. Explained easily and exactly what I was needing.

[@kennethscott3807]

Thank you for this knowledge! Your videos are fantastic!

[@giancarlomaldonado]

Very cool, thanks.

[@patlecat]

I like the chord pads, would be nice to have some presets from you even if I will never make jazz music.

[@jefgibbons]

Sounds good! Thanks Pat le Cat!

[@woodsdenis]

What make is the TV/Monitor Jef

[@jefgibbons]

Check the description! I have a video on it…