Adding or subtracting 1 is equivalent to moving one semitone higher or lower, respectively. A note can be selected by either typing in a number or pressing a key on the virtual keyboard. But that’s where most of the things people dislike about Cubase lie… Stuff happens and you go WHY? WHERE? But because it’s some little dealie that one only encounters every 3 months, you spend an hour solving it, then forget it. Play Note () for () Beats uses the MIDI note system. Unfortunately, that is a complete PITA for legacy programs like Cubase. The smart way to write software? Make it simple enough that it basically doesn’t NEED docs. Which is why I SCREAM so much about a self-evident and SIMPLE UX.

Devs like to spend 99% of their time on CODE. That’s why documentation almost always SUCKS in companies outside of manufacturing. The non-rhetorical, pointless, software-dev answer? Because it’s another pesky item to have to manage in a humongous software project. I noticed the other day it seems to be gone? WHY ? Is this still there in C8? I don’t see it. Did you know Preferences has its own, unique manual that’s not part of the standard documentation?Ĭlick the “?” at the bottom right of the Preferences pane to open: Hi, Is there a way to display the MIDI note number when viewing events in the List Editor or Key Editor or Drum Editor It seems like the only way to display a ‘pitch’ is with, say C1 but sometimes it would be more convenient to see the number 40 or whatever it is.

C++ note to midi note number