This course is for beginners and intermediate home-engineers and producers who want to develop an extended skill set with Cubase. Specifically, this course includes training for: MediaBayGroove Agent SEChord TrackArranger TrackSampler TrackThis course will show you exactly how to use the features in a practical way in your Cubase productions. Learning to use these features will speed up your workflow, make your productions more professional and allow you to get a lot more creative in the studio. If you’ve upgraded Cubase (or you’re a new user) and you’ve never learned to use these tools because they might appear confusing or unhelpful, then you are going to undoubtedly benefit from the lessons in this course! Get to know these tools and you’ll never go back: )Organize Cubase with MediaBayMediaBay is one of the first tools that Cubase users overlook. But, here’s a few of the reasons why everyone (no matter what styles of music you’re making) should learn to set it up and use it correctly: First, MediaBay brings everything under one roof. You may be looking for a sample and happen across a loop that you didn’t know you had (or forgot:). Since MediaBay can track enormous amounts of different kinds of content, it is one of the best available tools for your file management. and it comes built-in - for FREE! Next, MediaBay encourages producers to get organized. In this course I’ll offer some tips for tagging and organizing your loops, samples and presets in bulk using the attribute inspector (a tool which doesn’t even show up by default). How much time it takes to organize your content will be different for each student (depending on their library). Nonetheless, getting organized will help EVERY producer stay creative. The MediaBay not only keeps you organized, it can play back loops in the context of your project. before you even drag it in! This means you can listen to thousands of options INCONTEXTbefore you decide to add it to your project. It will follow the tempo, key and even start and stop with the main transport. Demystify Groove Agent. FINALLY!I’ve encountered many producers who let Groove Agent SE sit in their VST collection for ages without really using it. For some, it is because they don’t need a drum machine (however, it is also a pretty powerful sampler!). For others, it is because they don’t “get” it - I’ll be the first to admit the user interface obscures the incredible power and flexibility of Groove Agent. Here are a few of the things you’ll probably start doing once you’ve taken this course: Have you ever wanted to compose an original drum track that sounds and feels like a human being actually played it? Of course you have - we ALL have. Groove Agent can do that easily. once you know how to use it. It’s actually pretty easy and there are so many styles and kit choices to mix and match that (with the help of the attribute search) you’ll find something for any project. Are you a sampling fiend and you frustrated that the Sampler Track won’t permit layered sampling? Well, Groove Agent SEdoes! Furthermore, you can just migrate any Sampler Track (envelopes and all) to a pad in Groove Agent with the click of your mouse! Do you like the “idea” of a drum machine, but find it too fiddly to record the parts and get them into your project? Well, Groove Agents patterns can just be dragged into your project - right from Groove Agent. You don’t have to route MIDIand hit record (although you can if you want: ).Do you wish you could freshen up your beats with fills and different types of complexity without having to manually tweak MIDIclips for days on end? Me too! That is why I use Groove Agent SE’s Auto-Fill and Auto-Complexity modes to ensure that my drum parts sound and feel like they were actually played live. I can have my drum part finished (from scratch) in just a few minutes - human, well-mixed, professionally sampled - I’ll show you how to do this and more. Up Your Game & Write Better Chord Progressions. The Chord Track has been around for a while, but it is under-recognized as a tool for every producer to be using! Not only will the Chord Track refine your harmonic skills, but it will allow you to work more flexibly with your MIDI- even reharmonizing MIDIthat you’ve already recorded! Here are some of the highlights from the Chord Track lessons in this course: For producers who need some help generating ideas for harmony and chord progressions, the Chord Assistant feature comes to the rescue. I’ll show you how to identify complete chord progressions as well as finding chords that work well with the chord before/after any specific chord in your progression. You can use the Chord Assistant to explore different options based on “musical proximity” and make writing chords fun! Discover the Live Transform feature which enables you to play a pattern on your MIDIkeyboard that the Chord Track will “transform” in real time to match the chords in your chord progression. This is the best of both worlds - play the chords you want, even if you aren’t a piano player (or your using
