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Working with the new features
Routing the metronome click to a
VST Instrument
When setting up a metronome MIDI click, you can use a
VST Instrument to provide the sound for the click.
1. On the Transport menu, select “Metronome Setup…”.
2. In the MIDI Click section, open the MIDI Port/Channel
pop-up menu and select a VST Instrument from the list.
Note that the instrument must have been set up in the VST Instruments
window. Make sure that Activate MIDI Click is activated.
When you now start playback and a sound is selected in
your VST Instrument, the metronome click will be heard
using the VSTi selected above.
Suspending Autoscroll
On the main toolbar in the Project window, as well as in
the various editors, you will find the Autoscroll button.
When this button is activated, the display will scroll during
playback, keeping the project cursor visible in the window
at all times.
When editing parts or events during playback with Auto-
scroll enabled, you may suddenly “loose sight” of the ed-
ited material as the display follows the project cursor.
If you don’t want the Project window display to change
when editing during playback, you can activate the “Sus-
pend Autoscroll when Editing” button. You will find this
button right next to the Autoscroll button.
Suspend Autoscroll when Editing
When this option is enabled, autoscrolling is suspended
as soon as you click anywhere in the event display during
playback.
Proceed as follows:
1. Open a project that contains audio or MIDI parts/
events.
2. Enable both the “Autoscroll” and the “Suspend Auto-
scroll when Editing” buttons (both buttons turn blue).
3. Start playback.
4. Edit an audio or MIDI part/event of your project (e.g.
click and drag it to a different location on its track).
The Autoscroll button will turn orange.
Autoscrolling is now suspended, i.e. when the project cur-
sor moves to the right edge of the Project window, the
display will not follow to keep the cursor visible.
As soon as playback stops, or when you click the Auto-
scroll button again (so it turns blue), Cubase Essential will
return to the normal Autoscroll behavior.
New option in the Project
Synchronization Setup dialog
In the Project Synchronization Setup dialog, in the MIDI
Clock Destinations section in the lower right corner you
can find the option “Send MIDI Clock in Stop”.
• When this option is activated, Cubase Essential will
send MIDI Clock signals to the selected MIDI Clock desti-
nations even when Cubase Essential is in Stop mode.
This is, for example, useful if you are working with a keyboard that has a
built-in arpeggiator, the tempo of which you are controlling via MIDI Clock
messages. This way, the arpeggiator will keep the right tempo even when
Cubase Essential is in Stop mode. You may also be able to use this feature
with some external drum machines, as it allows you to play the drum pat-
terns in the current sequencer tempo even when Cubase Essential is
stopped.
• When this option is deactivated, Cubase Essential will
send MIDI Clock signals to the selected MIDI Clock desti-
nations only during playback.
In this mode, you will not be able to use the above-mentioned arpeggia-
tor of your keyboard in Stop mode.
Ö Keep in mind that the MIDI Clock information always
refers to the tempo at the current project position.