thanks =] hey question for anyone that can answer... Some custom commands like E are overriding other functions. Curious if anyone has found anything to be detrimental as an override?
One useful thing I never realised til recently is you can use the middle scroll wheel mouse button to click and drag around the project. That kinda combines scrolling left and right and up and down into one mouse button.
@@MarcOlivermusic It great isn't it!? It gets better when you actually remember that it works like that! Rather than doing the usual methods that are imprinted in the muscle memory after years!
Dom, as a new user of CB I'm finding your channel a life saver. I'm almost 50 and have been using PT for 25 years. I thought the transition would have been more painful than it has in no small part to your great content. Thanks again!
Please please please make the part 2. This video has been invaluable already for my workflow and taught me things I did not know were even functions in cubase at all. Also Dom Your music is amazing and would love to have a course made by you that I would gladly pay for showing you working/mixing/recording Crime reborn, Beautiful asymmetry and Approaching Sirius. Maybe if you can provide the stems so they can be worked on along with you or at least some music tabs and scores for the work. I would love to get a true paint by numbers kinda thing from you showing the methods and workflow things. You have an amazing ear for the bold and dramatic and would love to be a student of yours but could not find a patreon or dedicated teachable or anything. So please throw this into the ideas bucket and think about it. Keep making that amazing music and videos and thank you
As with all your vids, I not only learn new things which are part of your main topic, but also a whole bunch of other things that are flying by unrelated. EG getting the Key Editor to show colors for PARTS. Oh my!!! Thanks so much.
Hi Dom! Thank you for your wonderful demonstration! In you video: Get Crystal clear mixes EVERY TIME - tell me, what song is it? And who is the wonderful singer?
Thank you Dom, I'm in the state where I want to speed up my workflow and these are amazing. I knew just a few of them, I'll start working on them. I really would love 20 more of course!
Excellent video as always and fantastic shortcuts that I'm going to deploy immediately! Quick comment about SNAP ON/OFF (J), I actually prefer to keep it off in most cases, and just disable it temporarily by holding CTRL while editing.
Hi Dom, great information, I love your videos! Just started with Cubase again, after I gave up music 15 years ago. So many things have changed since Cubase 5, OMG. Anyway, I have a tip for you what can come in handy... Instead of Midi Bounce as a single key command, particular for midi only. You can use a macro and combine commands "Midi - Bounce Midi" & "Audio - Bounce Selection" via one key command. Cheers!
Awesome list. I was not aware of alt/opt + s to zoom to selection but will be using it all the time now. Even though it's not a shortcut per se, I didn't know about alt/opt clicking anywhere in the arrange window to place cursor. That's a huge help on a large monitor.
Can we please see any customization you have for quick controls or any cc hardware mappings you use? I would love learn how to wire up my pre gain to a rotary knob for gain staging.
Thanks Dom! You make our life easier and our work in Cubase more fun!... my favorite was SHIFT + click to move the cursor hahahaha... I just updated my shortcuts... Thanks 😁
Great vid! THX! I use zom to selection or selected events a lot. For my DAW that is "p" for making a selection of the selected object and then "Shift+A" to zoom to that. Also F3 is an often hit key. But many new commands I know now ;-)
@4:27 I have group into folder / group tracks / and then find folder called folder (logical editor) as a macro so I can rename the folder as one short cut as I do this these three steps all the time! Cubease macros for the win. Great video as always Dom
Like alway - very helpfull tricks. Thanks Dom - you are alway on my playlist. The zoom tips are new for me and very clever. What I use always are: show tracks with - or without data.
We always learn things even basics that we missed, TY Dom! I laughed when I saw the cut-tail command, because I do this all the time by two commands:Split ->Delete. Now I know better 😂😂😂
Dom, there should be a customize Cubase Dom Edition with your key commands and all in it ready to use, my relation with cubase changed since I know you
These are really useful. Thanx Dom. A very handy one for me is 'Bounce audio'. I use ctr + B & also a 'select audio after the curser on all tracks' shortcut is handy for many projects. I think i use Ctr + J
Dom, you really made my day with Alt + Shift + click! I am cutting our regular radio show in Cubase and I was missing this shortcut the most - thanks, man! Great videos, keep up the good work!
Thank you very much! I have used many of mentioned shortcuts, but also many were to me a big suprise and now I know how to improove my workflow! You're the man!
I use: "*" - for start Recording "/" - monitor track (on/off) L - jump to start of an event Ctrl + Alt + D - DeEss (from your video) "pause" - A/B referencing 1,2,3,5 - select/cut/delete "+" and "-" - scroll left/right in the track с - activate click
Alt + x - create sampler track (from audio on arrangement page); shift + x - create sampler track (from audio in media bay or pool). My creativity went through the roof with these two. Plus reassigning the ‘reset meters’ function from anything other than the default ‘ESC’ means you can check peak level without automatically closing a plug in or channel edit page. Great when checking the effect of a compressor for example. 👍🏾
On the small or non-English keyboards for Mac, where there are no extra keys for the brackets, you have to use other keys, e.g. the numbers. On the small keyboards, the square bracket would be e.g. Opt+5 or Opt+6, which would be too cumbersome.
Excellent as always Dom. Two things I learned: 1. The "Bounce MIDI" command is what I have normally done with the glue tool, like you displayed. (bounce is a weird word for this but it's ok). 2. The Mute/Unmute objects is what I normally have done with the "X" tool, activated by the 7 key. This key command (W) is faster/easier, of course.
Another value content video. Your channel is by far the best Cubase channel out there. That is a fact. I use Cubase as long as it exists. However, most of these shortcuts I did not know. Thanks a lot again, Dom!
Excited to dive into this one, thanks Dom! I'm a new Cubase user (also using Ableton) so this is gold for me. I'm loving the various key commands/shortcuts you can set up, and the overall customization capabilities Cubase offers.
Awesome video Dom... Do you think you could make a video on how you set the shortcuts in your slimblade.. And, maybe something on your Stream Deck? Hi Dom.. I found two videos you did where you explained setting up the Slimblade but I can't find anything on the Elgato Stream Deck
Saved to my "useful cubase vids" list. Really useful. Especially the "duplicate without data" one. Would be happy to see a list of more. And also a video of your top 5 ways of remembering all the shortcuts! ;-) (just kidding, I can type a list haha). Thanks again
Thanks for this useful video Dom. I would love to know if there is a shortcut to move a track to the top of the Project Window. It seems to be a rare omission in Cubase.
I've added two shortcuts to insert silence and another to lower the gain by 12db. I use them mainly while editing audio. the latter to lower the breathing volume, without removing it entirely. Some of yours were new to me and interesting, some only new ;-).
You're always an inspiration to learn new things. I'd say I used 1/3 of the shortcuts you mentioned, but was lazy to learn the other combinations. Especially about zooming. And great advice on moving the cursor with alt shift without clicking at the top. This one helped me a lot. Additionally, bounce midi is a time saver for me now cause I glued the events before without even knowing about it. Looking forward to part 2! I'd appreciate advice on moving events efficiently and transport buttons to start and stop playing from preferable parts without meddling with the mouse.
Dom, a suggestion for a Short: the Listen buttons. I had not noticed it (especially as I've only upgraded to Pro in the last year) and came across a discussion which mentioned that it was no different from Solo. I did some reading and poking and eventually found the Listen level hidden behind a drop down section of the Control Room setup. Seems to me that Listen (I have about a -15db cut) is a really good tool, especially when checking takes for bum notes. The hidden setup means it is not very discoverable, so well worth a Short to explain it and show the setup.
Yes that’s also useful! But sometimes you want something more permanent because you might need to use other modifiers at the same time and your hand becomes like a stretched octopus 😂
1. 0:40 - Edit Channel Settings
2. 1:56 - Edit VST Instrument
3. 2:45 - Loop Selection
4. 3:30 - Auto Quantize
5. 3:57 - Add Track to Selection Group/FX Channel
6. 5:00 - Increase/Decrease Quantize Value
7. 5:57 - Adjust Fades to Range
8. 6:54 - Reset Quantize
9. 7:58 - Show Used Controllers
10. 8:23 - Trim Head/Tail
11. 10:35 - Select Control Room Source
12. 11:02 - Enabled/Disable Snap
13. 11:35 - Open Mix Console
14. 12:09 - Audio Mixdown
15. 12:25 - Render In-Place
16. 13:34 - Mute/Unmute Objects
17. 14:08 - Bounce MIDI
18. 14:58 - Zoom to Selection/Undo Zoom
19. 16:00 - Zoom In/Out Horizonzal, Vertical, Waveform
20. 16:28 - Duplicate Track Without Data
Did you wrote him an invoice for doing his job? ;-)
Thx!
@@chillwalker haha. No. I actually did this for myself, but figured others would benefit as well.
You’re a lifesaver!
thanks =] hey question for anyone that can answer... Some custom commands like E are overriding other functions. Curious if anyone has found anything to be detrimental as an override?
Thank you
Make a part 2!?
Why not a part 2 and 3 too ? 😂
@@gregrobertmusic 🙂👍
I look forward to being amazed by, and then promptly forgetting all of these.
One useful thing I never realised til recently is you can use the middle scroll wheel mouse button to click and drag around the project. That kinda combines scrolling left and right and up and down into one mouse button.
GREAT TIP!!! Good to know after 30 years... :))
@@MarcOlivermusic It great isn't it!? It gets better when you actually remember that it works like that! Rather than doing the usual methods that are imprinted in the muscle memory after years!
Thank you Dom for your awesome videos!
Thank you so much for the support my friend ❤️
11:03 for this one i personally prefer to just hold Ctrl while (for example) adjusting the length of an event. It removes snap as long as you hold it.
Dom, as a new user of CB I'm finding your channel a life saver. I'm almost 50 and have been using PT for 25 years. I thought the transition would have been more painful than it has in no small part to your great content. Thanks again!
Btw, I really need to know how to create a key command to by-pass an open plug-in (one that is focused on). How would that be possible?
@@natlove219Great question. Let me know if you found an answer yet🎉
BOOOOOOM!!!! You're really great, generous and such a good Teacher
Thanks! Wonderful youtube, thoughtful and informative
Thank you for the support Andrew!
Please please please make the part 2. This video has been invaluable already for my workflow and taught me things I did not know were even functions in cubase at all. Also Dom Your music is amazing and would love to have a course made by you that I would gladly pay for showing you working/mixing/recording Crime reborn, Beautiful asymmetry and Approaching Sirius. Maybe if you can provide the stems so they can be worked on along with you or at least some music tabs and scores for the work. I would love to get a true paint by numbers kinda thing from you showing the methods and workflow things. You have an amazing ear for the bold and dramatic and would love to be a student of yours but could not find a patreon or dedicated teachable or anything. So please throw this into the ideas bucket and think about it. Keep making that amazing music and videos and thank you
As with all your vids, I not only learn new things which are part of your main topic, but also a whole bunch of other things that are flying by unrelated. EG getting the Key Editor to show colors for PARTS. Oh my!!! Thanks so much.
Your commands have been quite useful; they’ve helped me a lot. Thank you DOM!
Hi Dom! Thank you for your wonderful demonstration! In you video: Get Crystal clear mixes EVERY TIME - tell me, what song is it? And who is the wonderful singer?
Thank you Dom, I'm in the state where I want to speed up my workflow and these are amazing. I knew just a few of them, I'll start working on them. I really would love 20 more of course!
Your advice at 09:50 changed my life haha, incredible!!
This video literally has just saved me countless hours of work on all current & future projects!
Thanku sincerely
H
Excellent video as always and fantastic shortcuts that I'm going to deploy immediately! Quick comment about SNAP ON/OFF (J), I actually prefer to keep it off in most cases, and just disable it temporarily by holding CTRL while editing.
Hi Dom, great information, I love your videos! Just started with Cubase again, after I gave up music 15 years ago. So many things have changed since Cubase 5, OMG.
Anyway, I have a tip for you what can come in handy... Instead of Midi Bounce as a single key command, particular for midi only. You can use a macro and combine commands "Midi - Bounce Midi" & "Audio - Bounce Selection" via one key command. Cheers!
Thank you very much Dom, this is fantastic. A second part it would be great!
Awesome list. I was not aware of alt/opt + s to zoom to selection but will be using it all the time now. Even though it's not a shortcut per se, I didn't know about alt/opt clicking anywhere in the arrange window to place cursor. That's a huge help on a large monitor.
I did not know about all of these shortcuts. These are helpful. Please do a part 2.
I do almost all of these and more. Cubase is a very capable DAW. Glad that I found it!
Can we please see any customization you have for quick controls or any cc hardware mappings you use? I would love learn how to wire up my pre gain to a rotary knob for gain staging.
Thanks Dom! You make our life easier and our work in Cubase more fun!... my favorite was SHIFT + click to move the cursor hahahaha... I just updated my shortcuts... Thanks 😁
This was very, very useful. You're the best.
Great vid! THX! I use zom to selection or selected events a lot. For my DAW that is "p" for making a selection of the selected object and then "Shift+A" to zoom to that. Also F3 is an often hit key.
But many new commands I know now ;-)
I used about half of these already, but the others are quite useful. Thanks a lot!👍
@4:27 I have group into folder / group tracks / and then find folder called folder (logical editor) as a macro so I can rename the folder as one short cut as I do this these three steps all the time! Cubease macros for the win. Great video as always Dom
Like alway - very helpfull tricks. Thanks Dom - you are alway on my playlist. The zoom tips are new for me and very clever. What I use always are: show tracks with - or without data.
We always learn things even basics that we missed, TY Dom! I laughed when I saw the cut-tail command, because I do this all the time by two commands:Split ->Delete. Now I know better 😂😂😂
Great video, Dom! 20 more shortcuts - please!
Thx Dom ! I’ll make a note of them, it will speed up my workflow as well
Thanks for sharing these amazing videos broski.
Thanks Dom! Picked up a few new ones I will try.
Dom, there should be a customize Cubase Dom Edition with your key commands and all in it ready to use, my relation with cubase changed since I know you
These are really useful. Thanx Dom. A very handy one for me is 'Bounce audio'. I use ctr + B & also a 'select audio after the curser on all tracks' shortcut is handy for many projects. I think i use Ctr + J
This is what i just needed.thanks Dom once again for a million times !
Great Video! Would love to see the part 2!
Dom, you really made my day with Alt + Shift + click! I am cutting our regular radio show in Cubase and I was missing this shortcut the most - thanks, man! Great videos, keep up the good work!
Did it work in Cu12 or even in Cu 13? in the latter I couldnt make it happen... 😢
@@MarcOlivermusic In Cubase 13 Elements
@@jlsshield3499 Thx, meanwhile I found out myself 🤘
Thanks, Dom. I will def. copy most all of the mentioned shortcuts!
Brilliant! Keep them coming Dom, I’m going to fill my stream deck with them.
Thank you very much! I have used many of mentioned shortcuts, but also many were to me a big suprise and now I know how to improove my workflow! You're the man!
yep! more! we never have enough shortcuts in our life! ;-) And thanks for all your videos. Really appreciated!
I use:
"*" - for start Recording
"/" - monitor track (on/off)
L - jump to start of an event
Ctrl + Alt + D - DeEss (from your video)
"pause" - A/B referencing
1,2,3,5 - select/cut/delete
"+" and "-" - scroll left/right in the track
с - activate click
Awesome shortcuts, Thanks! I would really love to see Part 2!!!
Ty I got few new once really useful!
Would appreciate part 2
Love the channel! More shortcuts please!
Alt + x - create sampler track (from audio on arrangement page); shift + x - create sampler track (from audio in media bay or pool). My creativity went through the roof with these two.
Plus reassigning the ‘reset meters’ function from anything other than the default ‘ESC’ means you can check peak level without automatically closing a plug in or channel edit page. Great when checking the effect of a compressor for example. 👍🏾
REALLY handy. Thank you so much Dom!!
On the small or non-English keyboards for Mac, where there are no extra keys for the brackets, you have to use other keys, e.g. the numbers. On the small keyboards, the square bracket would be e.g. Opt+5 or Opt+6, which would be too cumbersome.
You save me hours of extra work. Thank you very much for your amazing content in RUclips.
Thanks Dom tips like these help my work flow tremendously.
Thank you. Creating shortcuts that are the same as your video editing software is a great idea
I have tons of shortcuts, macros and workspaces which I shoot from Touch Portal but you are right. I didn´t know undo zoom!
Dom! Thanks a lot for this video. It is so helpful for a better workflow. Please, do more of those practical Cubase videos.
Realy Helpful, Thanks Dude!
I'm using Cubase daily, know a lot of the ins and outs of this software but still learn things from you Dom, thanks!
Such a great video...so obvious now that I need to do this 🤪
SO COOL! PART TOOO YES PLEASE
Thanks a lot! Second part will be much appreciated
Thanks again for your effort
Excellent as always Dom. Two things I learned: 1. The "Bounce MIDI" command is what I have normally done with the glue tool, like you displayed. (bounce is a weird word for this but it's ok). 2. The Mute/Unmute objects is what I normally have done with the "X" tool, activated by the 7 key. This key command (W) is faster/easier, of course.
Very useful video as always Dom !!! Thank you ! I ll be waiting for the part 2 👍👍👍👍.
So helpful, Thank you so much 🙏✨
Yes please, I look forward to number 21 thru 40
Another value content video. Your channel is by far the best Cubase channel out there. That is a fact. I use Cubase as long as it exists. However, most of these shortcuts I did not know. Thanks a lot again, Dom!
Hi Dom, I've been combining your ongoing tips and shares to optimize my workflow and I thank you. I'm hitting the Super Thanks button :)
Excited to dive into this one, thanks Dom! I'm a new Cubase user (also using Ableton) so this is gold for me. I'm loving the various key commands/shortcuts you can set up, and the overall customization capabilities Cubase offers.
Immensely helpful. Thank you so much. And yes, some more please. (Also, chapters would be amazing).
Thanks Dom
Thanks man, really appreciate your video! Great advices
Awesome video Dom... Do you think you could make a video on how you set the shortcuts in your slimblade.. And, maybe something on your Stream Deck? Hi Dom.. I found two videos you did where you explained setting up the Slimblade but I can't find anything on the Elgato Stream Deck
Such great and helpful video! Thank you, Dom! 👍🥰
Hold control and alt to slip audio sighing a clip blew my mind when I learned it
Saved to my "useful cubase vids" list. Really useful. Especially the "duplicate without data" one. Would be happy to see a list of more. And also a video of your top 5 ways of remembering all the shortcuts! ;-) (just kidding, I can type a list haha). Thanks again
Thanks
Thank you so much for the support Kenny!
@@DomSigalas I'll be repeating that, Dom - I know it's not much but it's what I can afford right now 🙂
@@in2gadgets so kind of you Kenny! You don’t need to do this honestly, your support is highly appreciated even without the Super Thanks ❤️
Really useful stuff, thank you!
These are awesome tips Dom! Thank you so much for sharing!!!
e to edit Channel settings is brilliant, thanks ❤
Why haven't I thought of that 😂
Thank you Dom.
YASSS definitely part 2 👌👊
Thanks for this useful video Dom. I would love to know if there is a shortcut to move a track to the top of the Project Window. It seems to be a rare omission in Cubase.
You are IRADO !!! Thank you so so much!!!
Thank you for the video, more shortcuts please!!!
you're amazing Dom :) thanks!
I've added two shortcuts to insert silence and another to lower the gain by 12db. I use them mainly while editing audio. the latter to lower the breathing volume, without removing it entirely.
Some of yours were new to me and interesting, some only new ;-).
Thanks once again - great content!
I think that the last one is going to be my new most use shortcut.
Hey Dom, Is there a macro where you could duplicate a particular track, and keep only the audio file, while deleting all plugins and automation data?
That's also what I was thinking of.
Thanks Dom, as usually very helpful and useful content!!!🔥🔥🔥
You're always an inspiration to learn new things. I'd say I used 1/3 of the shortcuts you mentioned, but was lazy to learn the other combinations. Especially about zooming.
And great advice on moving the cursor with alt shift without clicking at the top. This one helped me a lot.
Additionally, bounce midi is a time saver for me now cause I glued the events before without even knowing about it.
Looking forward to part 2! I'd appreciate advice on moving events efficiently and transport buttons to start and stop playing from preferable parts without meddling with the mouse.
I have E for channel settings too and Esc opens the instrument.
Thank you Dom. As a new user of Cubase 12 pro these are handy tips.
Dom, a suggestion for a Short: the Listen buttons.
I had not noticed it (especially as I've only upgraded to Pro in the last year) and came across a discussion which mentioned that it was no different from Solo. I did some reading and poking and eventually found the Listen level hidden behind a drop down section of the Control Room setup.
Seems to me that Listen (I have about a -15db cut) is a really good tool, especially when checking takes for bum notes. The hidden setup means it is not very discoverable, so well worth a Short to explain it and show the setup.
fantastic video with great tips, i always learn from you dom!! thank you
Lots of Love for Mr dom From Kolkata , India.
for zoom I use CTRL + mouse scroll wheel for in and out....more control and range I reckon
Wow. Thanks a lot Dom!!!
Thanks Dom. You should try holding the "Ctrl" key while editing for free editing instead of turning snap on and off with the "J" button every time
Yes that’s also useful! But sometimes you want something more permanent because you might need to use other modifiers at the same time and your hand becomes like a stretched octopus 😂
@@DomSigalas I know just what you mean 😆
Thanks dom ... helped me very mutch. one thing i´m alway wondering: is there a function that let me crate a audio chanel with decreased gain?