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[Neil B]

Jimmy
Another way of doing it (in 32/5.1) is to use functions repeat using a part that you have highlighted. You can repeat the loop or part as many times as you wish.
Okay I know that you want to copy to s specified area, but when you are developing a track you may decide to add or remove a few bars.
So, using this method you can "flood" the track with, say 64 copies of your 4 bar loop.
Next, drag your cursor over all of the new parts and then mute them.
As you play back/develop your track you can then un-mute parts as you wish until you finally have what you want.
Then simply delete the ones that remain muted.

Another way to copy a loop is to click on it and then hold the alt key down and drag to the right. This will take a copy along with it and you cna then drop it where you wish.
Not got my daw switched on at the moment but I'm sure It's ALT.

Hope that helps

Oh, I notice Huub has done the Alt & drag bit earlier.
Bear in mind you can click on several parts, on different tracks, using shift to highlight them all, and then hold alt and drag a complete "verse" of all instruments and all parts.

Going on from what Huub said about ghost parts.
These were originally in Cubase to save CPU memory if I remember correctly.
They can be useful but if you change the orig part you are asked if you want to convert all ghosts to the newly changed version. Be careful of this because, as an example, if you create a drum part, say hi-hats and make loads of ghost copies, you will sound like a machine. If you decide to add vaiety, drop a note, move a note or 2 off-beat, it will change them all and you'll still sound like a machine!

[dawman]

Copy / Paste, Done w/ it already.

What a Giant Goat Fuck. I saw this first thing but said to myself, surely this would be the way to go, but no mention of it under MIDI, Score Editor, Drum Editor.

As usual the Brotha's of the Z dialed it in for me.

Now,............the world.

[hubird]

no mention of it under MIDI, Score Editor, Drum Editor.

that's because copy/paste parts is not a editor function but an arrangement function.

btw, if you open the Midi editor of a part you can use the copy/paste trick also with notes...or even controller information.

[Neil B]

Hey Huub
Let the poor guy go one step at a time


Glad you're getting it sorted Jimmy

[H-Rave]

This is the Life, Hangin' out with the dudes Talkin' tech and drinkin'......., wait a minute I'm drinkin' diet coke...........Beer .

Thanks for puttin' me onto Reaper jimmy, The reamote thing's pretty cool

[dawman]

Yepp we are solving and suceeding.

Not many acoustic drum fans here probably, but this is a Billy Cobham type of thing and it is now tight as a Gnat's Ass !!

My first MIDI recording in Cubase has suceeded. I only needed the drums as I can play w/o all of that quantizing shit.

This is a big jump up from a drum box and hardware sequencer,

I will use Cubase for all of my drums, then master in Scope and send the outs to VDAT, where I can play along 2 tracks at a time.

Scope is definately where mixing and mastering need to be done. The recorded audio I am hearing in Cubase is so weak w/o Scope. How can people listen to this stuff w/o adding tons of enhancement?

Anyway Thanks Gents, Synth Fusion Cool School Jazz Morph is coming~~~~



I aim to help keep that music thread going.

Lot of talent not being heard around here,....... time to fix that shit.

Even if members post stuff that isn't " Record Quality " who cares. This ain't American Idol.

The idea of this thread is collaboration, and self taught recording techniques that many of us here share the same gear.

I plan on posting every week.

Can't win if ya' don't go.

[Jah Servant]

Jimmy, you'll get used to it, it really gets very easy, the manual is hard to find what you are looking for at times though, but it is there somewhere.
Once you have snap on, you can just cut and move or copy pieces around very quickly, as stated, using alt and select your piece and drag to copy. Often I will cut a piece on bar and move it, then open it and drag the beginning or end points to remove notes that I don't want, but everything snaps perfectly in place, that's the main thing, but you don't have to take only exactly what you want, I find it much easier to work with snap to bar and quicly edit out things after, makes the copying much easier when you aren't zoomed in too much.

[MD69]

Hi,

I do it an unorthodox way, but it works for me:
Set the quantize to 1/16
use the scissor and I cut where I want, around the segment I want to duplicate
select the segment by clicking on it
then copy paste with ctrl C / ctrl V and move ithe new segment where I want

This is a "rea"l copy where the copied segment is independant from the originator segment, but you can also use "ghost" copy if you want that any mod done in the originator is duplicated in the copied segment.

to each its own ....


cheers

[Jah Servant]

I don't think they still use that ghost copy do they? I haven't seen that since cubase vst5. I get real copies using alt and dragging, changes are only made on the piece I edit.

[hubird]

I think you're right, (it kept me busy for a while when I jumped from old VST32/5 to SX3).
But from the main copy menu the choice is still there.

[MD69]

Hi,

it's called shared copy nowadays .... use the SHIFT Key

cheers