Cubase Tips : Making Use of Chord Pads for Orchestral Music

hey guys and welcome to another Cubase tips video today I want to show you the chord track inside of Cubase 9.5 and how bloody awesome it is have doing a number of different things so obviously you know about chord tracks you can create a chord track in your mixer and then assign it to an instrument like your piano and then you have you know you can have the circle of fifths or you can have proximately or the other thing for choosing the different chords and you can just literally just click a button choose your key and draw it in and it all play the keys or whatever it is you've assigned it to but chord pads allows you to do something much better than using the chord track so for example that I've loaded up a couple of chords what you'll notice is when you hover over it you get these different controls so here if this is like the drop down menu for choosing a chord you can also do it by using the pop out for the circle of fifths sort of proximity and you can just drag and drop a chord in and at the bottom here you've got another control which changes between if it's augmented or 9/7 or whatever it is you want you can literally just change free and then here you've got control over the voicing so if it's lower down in the scale or higher up in the scale for that particular chord so for example here I've got a and I've got this version of a which is a lower voiced one and what this lets you do is create really interesting progressions you know and variations of progressions and in the core pad itself when you've got this panel open it actually Maps this to a set number of keys on your piano roll and you can edit this you can choose whatever wherever you want this to work from and where you want it to end so you can have loads of different chord switches you've also got controls over all these individual things and if you've got like a MIDI controller you can map it out in the way where you can control values such as the voicing or the chord you know is in real time so you can sort of use my macro CC controls and sweep through it and change through the chords or change through the voicings actually plane which is which is really cool well I want to show you is what it actually sounds like in practice so I've got cinematic strings to load it up here all the patches and they're on the you know the normal Arco modal sustains and watch what happens when I play something here [Music] so it's a really easy way to get some nice sounding chords so it saves you just writing them in basically and having a map to a single key makes it really easy and you can you can drag and drop these into the mixer I'm sorry into your edit window if you want to have those chords on there or you can just record yourself you know pressing one key and moving the mod wheel and my parts to get the different sounds and these make it really easy for stuff light if you do in sections like a fitted staccato section you get the idea also it works nice on bits of cantos now it doesn't really end there either you can do other things as well so down here you've got piano player and this will change sort of like it chooses the notes so if your guitar player make it more like the voicings are closer to cover so if you're playing a guitar it'd be similar to how you would voice things when you're playing on guitar for those particular chords piano it's slightly different and you also got things like your patterns and sections patterns is quite useful actually if you click on pattern and then go to the Edit window and then click on players you can actually drag and drop MIDI into this what it will do is it will play let's say I want to do some staccato runs but I want to use only I don't know do some arpeggios or something like that in the key of those chords what I would do is this this is really cool so if we create just it doesn't matter where the notes are at all you can do this anywhere so I'm going to now you did it did it did it did it did it did I've done that slightly early did it - let's just just do something like that okay now if I drag and drop this in now I can do anything I could do this is what it did to do and again doesn't really matter where the notes are and you can also change the velocity as well so it's controlled by either the keyboard and how hard you hit it or by actual pattern so the velocity of which the middie was programmed inner [Music] but if your nose even if we put these up here like this and drag that in it makes no difference it's it's very clever how it works there's matter what notes I do this on so I could go dude dude dude dude dude doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo I've know something random like that [Music] it just makes things really easy and I could you know you just literally play that in as a single key so if you experiment around with it you can get some interesting results to start using the core pad but my favorite is using sustains or the trills or doing very short staccato stuff I put this back on here it sounds awesome if you do this across a whole Orchestra if it's satis to carter's you brass I think you could do very easily Pirates of the Caribbean if you actually put the progression in for it but you get the picture though it's it's a really useful way let's just change the voices [Music] and literally all you would have to do is I forgot about that I have something already loaded in there let's just try that again [Music] no just kind of works so it's a very brief look at this there's a lot more to it than I'm actually going through I mean for example silly little things like you can change the layout of how the pads are actually displayed on so you can do it as a grid and you can have as many columns or rows as you like so if you go back to here you can have a load of different chord progressions laid out ones that you like and you could map that from c0 all the way up to c7 or wherever you wanted to to cover those key ranges and the interesting thing thing is even where these switches overlap on where samples are in your library it won't actually trigger those samples it will just automatically work so yeah a very very short look there isn't of a couple videos out there on YouTube if you search for them there's a really good one of a guy's demonstrating how you can create de VC by using this method and splitting the voices across a single instance of contacts if it's using loads of different patches so something very interesting to watch in fact I'll put a link in the box below and hopefully you found this useful guys is something we're playing around with and getting to grips with it it's very useful and a very quick way to add stuff into your tracks when you're composing so thank you for watching and I will see you in the next video whenever or whatever that video video video video will be see you later guys

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Length: 11min 44sec (704 seconds)

Published: Thu May 03 2018