(Cross Post) Cubase 4.1.2 Has Something Akin To Ableton Live

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:50 pm

http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... 1&start=20

I just discovered the "Arranger Editor". It is a little like Ableton Live. When playing the parts live, it does not record the changes though. Obviously you could record it into an audio track through Scope. It's probably better to play with the arranger parts live and when you know what you like, program them to play in the arranger editor on the left side which is easy to use. Once you have the arrangement the way you want, you can "flatten" it and it becomes a normal Cubase sequence tracks. I hope that makes sense. Essentially, it is a sequencer within a sequencer.

The "arranger" options used to be called "play order track" which confused me as the SX 4 printed manual is now wrong plus there are more options.

It took me an evening to figure this out and I will be using it a lot.

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:45 pm

yeah but if its like the rest of cubase it takes about 10 mouse clicks instead of 1 or 2

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 2:31 am

It's pretty cool if you have a complex song already but not for building one from scratch. As soon as you use the "flatten" command, it will replace the sequence you have so if you don't want to erase your song, you have to copy it before and then paste it on the end.