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The arranger track
Arranging your music to video
• You can stop Live mode by clicking the Stop button or go back to “normal”
playback in Arranger mode by clicking on any arranger event in the upper list.
In the latter case, playback will be continued from the arranger event where you
clicked.
Arranging your music to video
The relative time of your arranger track can be taken as a reference instead of the
project time. This is useful, if you want to use the arranger track to compose music for
video and fill a specific video section with music, by repeating the corresponding
number of arranger events.
If you position your external sync master device to a position that does not match the
Project Start time, Cubase will jump automatically to the right position in the arranger
track and will start playback from there, i.
e. the correct relative position and not the
absolute project time will be found. The reference for the external timecode can be
MIDI or any other timecode that can be interpreted/read by Cubase.
An example:
1. Set up a project with a MIDI track and three MIDI parts. The first part should start
at position 00:00:00:00 and end at position 00:01:00:00, the second should start
at position 00:01:00:00 and end at position 00:02:00:00 and the third should
start at position 00:02:00:00 and end at position 00:03:00:00.
2. Activate the Sync button on the Transport panel.
3. Add an arranger track and create arranger events that match the MIDI parts.
4. Set up the arranger chain “A-A-B-B-C-C”, activate the Arranger mode and play
back your project.
5. Start external timecode at position 00:00:10:00 (within the range of “A”).
In your project, the position 00:00:10:00 will be located and you will hear “A”
playing. Nothing special!
Now, let’s see what happens if your external sync master device starts at a position
that does not match the Project Start time:
6. Start at 00:01:10:00 (within the range of what originally was “B”).
In your project, the position 00:01:10:00 will be located and you will hear “A”
playing, because it plays twice in the arranger track.
7. Start external timecode at position 00:02:10:00 (within the range of what originally
was “C”).
In your project, the position 00:02:10:00 will be located and you will hear “B”
playing, because it plays “later” in the arranger track.
Ö If the Arranger mode is not activated or no arranger track exists, Cubase will work as
usual.
1 bar Jumps to the next section at the next bar line.
1 beat Jumps to the next section at the next beat.
End Plays the current section to the end, then jumps to the next section.
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