Cubase 13: Chord Pads

[@timcox6796]

I'm loving this fresh new update.

[@jetblackfoot]

That's brilliant. Thank you.

[@Lucas-Maria]

By the way, excellent video!

[@RussColumbia]

Thank you for explaining chord pads in Cubase 13. Do you know where to find the "Assign Pad from Midi Input?" It used to be on the function button left of chord pads in Cubase 12. I can't find how to add a midi chord from a piano track onto a new chord pad. That feature seems to be missing along with "Transposing All Pads". Thanks for your help!

[@musictechtuition]

HI Russ. Assign from MIDI Input is to the right of the key on the second row of buttons - it looks like a 5-pin MIDI cable. If you look at 0:05 in the video, above the Fmaj7 keypad you can see it there. You can transpose all pads by selecting them all (with the select all that's at the far left of the second row, it's above the Dmin/Bb at 0:05), and then use the up and down transpose buttons (to the right of the Assign from MIDI button) to transpose them all. HTH.

[@RussColumbia]

OMG! Thanks Jay! I was trying to find it everywhere else. Mostly under the Chord Pads Remote Settings button with latch chords (which I'm not exactly sure what that does... or the voicing modifiers stuff.) Thanks again for that and the transpose all Love your deep dives and also purchased several of the BTP videos on earlier versions of Cubase!!! @@musictechtuition

[@tjosselin]

Thanks for the video :-) for the step entries, I wonder if it is linked to the grid and quantize value? I will try it

[@njm20music]

Hi Dom can I enter a chord to a chord pad from keyboard, thanks for the 80's max update👍

[@jamespage5129]

Great, thank you. But how do we get the patterns into the project so that the chords play with the chosen pattern?

[@musictechtuition]

I've done a video on it - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqOToaSZaJuoiZI

[@Lucas-Maria]

How to transfer an existing pattern to a track?

[@freddesign4989]

On cubase 12 i can follow the chord when i play a wrong note it will instantly correct me . i say live input 'on' with chords in the inspector area, now thats gone.. where can i find this live input???

[@musictechtuition]

It's still in the chords section of the inspector, just at the bottom.

[@freddesign4989]

@@musictechtuition found out you have to right click inside the inspector to get it back, but it's a very buggy version on the pc, i can tell you that... even the on-screen keyboard gives me the wrong notes...kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2q5oqFshL93qac

[@musictechtuition]

@@freddesign4989 hadn't seen that with the on-screen keyboard here, very odd indeed! I'll see if I can provoke it next time in the in the studio on the PC.

[@DebowyMocny]

Maybe it's just me but I am really missing the pad presets from the old version... and by that I mean the basic scale patterns. Maybe I'm missing something but in the new version it is not possible to simply load the basic defaul Major Scale or Pentatonic scale chords.

[@musictechtuition]

Yeah.... I agree! I've spent some time this morning looking for them, but I'm pretty sure they are in the "cubase 12 content" file which means you can't just copy them from one version to another. Which is pretty annoying. I'll see if there's a way round it, but at the moment I think it's not easy to do (with a single file movement).

[@musictechtuition]

So... you can do it one-by-one, which is a bit of a pain, but it is possible. If you load it in Cubase 12, and then save it as a preset (using the same name, I'd think), then it will be saved as a Chord Pads preset in a file (if you're on Windows it will be under C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Chord Pads) which is then accessible in Cubase 13, and you should be good to go. If you save one from Cubase 12, you can then use transpose all to create the other keys and save them from 13 which will be a little quicker.

[@DebowyMocny]

@@musictechtuition Thank you for your reply. I have also arrived at the same solution (after scanning my disk for *.chordpads files) lately and just created my most commonly used presets (Major/Minor/Pentatonic/Blues - yep, I am a guitar player). The default 13's presets seem to be way too fancy for just laying down the core of the track, which is how I like you to start. It's a shame that it is not possible (as far as I can see) to have them all listed in one view though.... it's either factory content or user content in the filter option. Thanks once again for your fantastic content and I am going to grab the book soon.

[@musictechtuition]

@@DebowyMocny I'm seeing both factory and my own when I view the presets in Cubase 13. It's not straightforward to describe, but I'll do a quick video on it to show both what you already know (getting them from 12 to 13) and making sure you can see them all in one view.

[@chrisshollinrake6826]

So how do you change chord inversions?

[@musictechtuition]

There are arrows on the toolbar that allow you to change inversion (they call it voicing) - it's the right-hand two arrows in the group of 6 on the toolbar.

[@burakaysezer3110]

Does artist version have all the features of chord pads?

[@musictechtuition]

Yes, it's exactly the same in Artist.

[@DimitrisKambanos]

And how can assign a pattern in an editor?

[@musictechtuition]

I'm not sure what you mean, can you explain it in more detail and I'll see if I can help?

[@DimitrisKambanos]

@@musictechtuition yes ok. Normally I can drag and drop any of the chords, but I wanna add a pattern. When I change to the pattern and I'm playing the pattern, I can't drag and drop it to the chord lane as a pattern.

[@musictechtuition]

@@DimitrisKambanos - Unfortunately the only option is to record them - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqOToaSZaJuoiZI

[@TeknaTronik]

The GUI is a step backwards

[@martinmole5741]

The GUI ist fantastic.

[@TeknaTronik]

Not even close@@martinmole5741

[@QuantizStudioRecords]

I think viceversa

[@michaelb247]

Sorry, did it not occur, to include one vital bit of informatin - how do you open Chord Pad. I have looked at several Chordpad 'tutorials and in eve3r single one, the 'presenter' goes barrelling in without giving a clue as how to ope Chordpads. My quest cntinues, bye

[@musictechtuition]

They're in the lower zone. CTRL + ALT + E on windows, COMMAND + OPTION + E on macOS. Then you'll see the lower zone and you can click 'chord pads' and you should be good to go.

[@musictechtuition]

Also, check out this video of mine on chord pads - kzbin.info/www/bejne/imXdmoCFhLpjY7M - everything to get you started is here.

[@-Deena.]

Why do you keep deleting my comment about Apache and Apache SX MIDI modifiers and arming the chord track? Very odd thing for you to do?

[@musictechtuition]

Hi. I have no idea what you're referring to - I've not deleted any of your comments as far as I know. What was the comment?

[@-Deena.]

@@musictechtuition Chord pad patterns....how to record them. Been deleted twice? Never mind!

[@musictechtuition]

@@-Deena. I've not deleted any of your comments. Indeed, I can see the comment you're referring to on the video in question, I just haven't responded to it (I only get some emails about comments, not every comment). It's not been deleted. I think in 10 years of running this channel I've probably deleted maybe 10 comments, and all of them have been unwarranted or rude comments, not merely technical stuff.

[@-Deena.]

@@musictechtuition Did you make two uploads about the chord pad pattern recording problem? Nevermind though. It's probably me looking in the wrong place or a TT glitch my end. Love the channel and I'm sorry to have been a nuisance.

[@musictechtuition]

@@-Deena. I've made this video and one on how to get the patterns into Cubase from Chord Pads - your comment is on that other video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqOToaSZaJuoiZI No problem, glad you find the videos good. 👍

[@partlysimpson5154]

ur voice sound similar, ..I think u are ableton guy

[@musictechtuition]

I've been told that before... but I'm definitely not Ableton guy. Easily proven if you've ever seen me try to use it!

[@partlysimpson5154]

this chord feature seems really cool, I mean u can make easily top stuff only with these pads and then further edit, I dont know theory. but I found it that I get tonality I want using pads and then further edit the relations between the notes later and voicing @@musictechtuition

[@musictechtuition]

@@partlysimpson5154 Absolutely. I've used it a fair few times to start me off, as I'm not a great keyboard player and it lets me play chords quickly and easily (and accurately!) - whether they're my own or some interesting ones from the presets.

[@partlysimpson5154]

@@musictechtuition is it possible also change key in piano roll to snap to thr key, if i want build melody?

[@musictechtuition]

@@partlysimpson5154 Absolutely - the scale assistant will let you do this (and more). It's in the inspector.