Understanding The Drag and Drop Functionality | Cubase Q&A with Greg Ondo

[@ALo-pw7jb]

Greg you still doing google hangouts? I learn so much from them!!!

[@Cubase]

Hello, yes we are still doing the Google Hangouts, you can find them here: kzbin.info/aero/PLeAGmrQnjblbuxr3-A1uZ9b8E7-8j6Z4K and as always subscribe to the channel and hit the bell to get a notification as soon as the next one has been schedule.

[@Nomo_Popo]

@@Cubase I just recently bought Pro and the Hangouts videos have been extremely informative. Thanks a lot for doing them!

[@pimpslappa123]

Nicest guy I've ever met. He befriended me at my first NAAM 2018. He's like a walking encyclopedia Britannica. Truly awesome individual. I missed him at this year's Winter NAAM but I won't miss him in the next years. What a blessing to be in this man's circle. He's always willing to help me and I just met him. I literally have no experience in Cubase and he answers back within minutes anytime I have a question. Thanks, Greg for being so approachable and awesome! I hope to see you at NAAM 2021.

[@Nathankaye]

OMFG! The dragging and dropping of insert plugins into the direct offline processing is a welcome revelation to my workflow to save CPU!!! (I've spent way too much time trying to match settings from each plugin in the inserts to D.O.P and then deleting the inserts) THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!!

[@erickauffmann_official]

The chord track conversion to the instrument track blew my mind!

[@theofficialkrushb]

The is the most comprehensive video I've seen on Cubase's drag n drop functionality. I would like to see drag n drop audio from the media bay/browser directly to the chord track implemented in the near future.

[@lipstickspeedball]

You are the Greatest. I have been trying to take a piece of a guitar track from one project and put it in another Completely different Project and have been having no luck until now. Than You Greg !!! You are a Champ. F'en Great Tutorial Keep em coming ! You are a Proffessor at this. I have learned so much from you Greg. Much Appreciated !!

[@eljodioerrante]

Thank you. Merry Christmas

[@AstronautDown]

Every time I see the title and think, oh, I'm a veteran, I know all about this. Every time Greg proves me wrong :)

[@redfordmusicofficial]

Man, I can't agree more. I thought when opening this video, "I know what you can do with drag-and-drop in Cubase". I was wrong. I don't know shit. lol.

[@kyoto5780]

Cubase is in a universe of its own

[@Phileosophos]

OMG! So many great tips! Thanks!

[@project1265ffo]

thank you Greg, it was very useful

[@rafaelhernandez5550]

Thank you Greg all your videos are very helpful.

[@AlexDD]

Well explained, thanks mate!

[@marcotronic]

Excellent video and tips! Thanks a lot. Didn't know at least 50% of those functionalities :)

[@MorisoniProductions]

so much condensed information.....thanks!

[@DoctorJRx]

THANKS GREG !!

[@L.M1792]

Great, I love how you are for what we are of. It of course eases our global networking fears. Kind regards LM

[@sirlordcomixx1]

Thanks for the info, good video.

[@rollacoastaride1937]

cool tips, cheers

[@shishmanashvil]

Thank you!

[@HansolJang]

always thank you for your kind devotion. more video also welcome.

[@timmlive]

cool. Thanks!

[@kundabwanga8965]

Thanks Greg I’m happy with cubase plug ins. Does it also apply to third party plug ins?

[@simmpessor5541]

Yes

[@nikibuz1]

greg! you area master!!! every time i learn somethong new!!!

[@petebee2541]

I really appreciate all the videos they are super helpful though I think I'm pretty crap at it pleased it's my hobby an not my living not sure if I have enough time left on the planet to get my head around it all.

[@realraven2000]

Awesome. Note that when you want to drag groove agent pattern pads to the arrangement you need a midi track connected to the instrument - you can't drag directly onto the groove agent instrument track.

[@gregondo376]

It seems on my system that I can drag groove agent patterns to any MIDI or instrument track in the project.

[@EminoMeneko]

Cool. Is there a way to add a mono audio sample on a stereo track while you drag and drop. By default Cubase create mono track for mono samples. This comes with unwanted behaviours when you play with panning effects (Autopan and panning vsts). So far you need to create a stereo track before and drag to that stereo track. This would be a nice feature along with converting mono channels to stereo and back.

[@subramaniamchandrasekar1397]

Please add a video on making an instrument track active by pressing some key from external keyboard. Switching from one instrument to another will be very useful for live stage work. Regards.

[@gregondo376]

I know that some MIDI controllers have functions that mimic the up and down arrows on the computer keyboard. If so, you could experiment with the preference Editing - Project & MixConsole and check Enable Record on Selected MIDI Track.

[@alanredversangel]

The more I learn about Cubase the less I use it. I mean that in a good way. Things that used to take half an hour take five minutes etc. These vids are great for your workflow.

[@tiscover]

Is there a way to drag and drop an audio file and route it directly to a bus? That would be a pretty handy feature! Thanks anyway for the video...

[@bigguyondeck]

Is there a way to drag and drop effect chains between project files?

[@TrevorRoper.]

nice one Greg TU^ 130 ;-) Trevor

[@ThisWaytotheEgress]

but what do you do if when you drag and drop it shows a circle with line through saying I can't be done? How do you import from desktop when everything is grayed out? please help

[@jagdishlalwani]

can cubase load apple loops

[@usafirefly7967]

This helps! BUT I just tried this with a couple of effects, dragging and dropping into different areas and it puts it all down the ladder and no effects can be heard (It's just a drum pattern track and a guitar audio track). I go ahead an just right click and 'add' the FX and guess what? You don't hear a single difference? This is what is so frustrating -- you watch a video and CAN'T REPLICATE because some small detail missing! I'm sure that happens to most of us!!! Thanks for showing this but it just doesn't work at all like yours does ... Cubase 10.5

[@kris_lx]

If I drag MIDI from Maschine into Cubase that contains only data on 1 MIDI channel, Cubase always creates 15 empty MIDI tracks for the other channels. Is there any way to prevent this? Is there any setting to ignore empty tracks in a MIDI file?

[@gregondo376]

It is probably the MIDI file being generated from Maschine that has the extra MIDI channels included within it. You may want to see if there is any other preferences or options within Maschine as Cubase will import the MIDI file as generated.

[@kris_lx]

@@gregondo376 It seems like the setting 'Import Dropped File as Single Part' under MIDI file import options did the trick.

[@kotezstudio]

Is there a way of changing the setting of the Reverse function so that it doesn't affect all my audio on that channel and just the individual cut audio slice. I do loads of cuts and edits and click Reverse on one audio bit and it starts applying it to load of other bits...

[@simmpessor5541]

Highlight the part you want to reverse, it will only affect the highlighted part

[@gregondo376]

This might help. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoWafZuCqZ6Gpqc

[@yoyoz333]

I cant apply my inserts onto different tracks.

[@darbomusic]

💖

[@DontaPaul]

Mine says Unmapped. How do I Map it ?

[@gregondo376]

Where does it say unmapped? Is it on the MIDI ports when dragging a MIDI file in?

[@thehitter2708]

I was literally going to email you guys about dropping in midi. Every time I drop in midi, it’s impossible to delete the instance of halion. There’s no option to remove selected track ever. That’s the only time I can’t delete a track. Does anybody know how to resolve this?

[@gregondo376]

Can't you simply click on HALion Sonic SE in the instrument rack and in the name field choose No VST instrument?

[@Hamidreza_Heidarolad]

Thank You - @hamidreza_heidarolad

[@POLITZIAMUZICALA]

🔝🔝🔝🔝

[@YannisFyssas]

Like :)

[@nonchai]

Re dragging and dropping MIDI files and mulltitimbral instrument use (Halion Sonic SE) Id like the ability in Cubase when setting up a Template - to allow any Instrument track to be designated a unique MIDI PC number. They idea is to let us to set up our own multitimbral default instrument tracks for any or all MIDI PC values used in General MIDI. So I could set up a track with PC 1 as my Ivory Steinway piano plugin, another set up for OC 33 ands using a Kontakt double bass library, and tracks assigned to PC 5 and 6 set up with presets from the Lounge Lizard plugin for Rhodes and Wurlitzer. All the remaining instruments in GM would still default to using Halion SH GM instrument set. This would allow us to have GENERAL MIDI files sounding much better if we happen to own or prefer instrument libraries plugin of our own. a feature request for this exists here: www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=168468&sid=438ee7525e0564d6cac0d45f791ba171

[@painlesstragedy]

right click tooltip functionality is faster! fyi

[@painlesstragedy]

older cubases is much faster than this...