01:03 - instant chopping to quantize value - [scissors tool + alt + click] 2:06 - snap on/off - [J] 3:03 - zoom in / out - multiple shortcuts 4:07 - cycle selection - [alt+P] 5:20 - split range - [shift + X] 6:31 - quantize panel - [ctrl/cmd + alt + Q] - (custom) 7:31 - reset quantize - [ctrl/cmd + shift + Q] - (custom) 9:00 - how to set your own custom shortcuts 9:50 - add tracks - instrument [ctrl/cmd + alt + N] // audio [ctrl/cmd +shift + N] - (maybe custom) 10:29 - add selected tracks to group / fx channels - group [alt + shift + G] // fx [alt + shift + F] 11:15 - how to build macro commands 12:34 - insert marker - [insert] 13:05 - cycle marker - [ctrl/cmd + insert] 13:56 - quantize value - increase / decrease - [ "[" "]" ] - (custom) 14:56 - snap type - increase [ctrl/cmd + "]"] // decrease [ctrl/cmd + "["] - (custom)

Aren’t you glad Dom is batting for the cubase team. It’s like having a prize striker on your soccer team.

Ive been using cubase for all my music since cubase 3. And I knew none of these 😅😂 I WILL EVOLVE!!! 😆😆😆

Very good stuff, thank you! For Snap on/off - [J] I work faster just keeping the CTRL key pressed, it bypasses the snap. Thanks Steinberg, great time saver :)

Love it! The "Tracks to Groups," "Tracks to EFX," "New Instrument Track," and "New Audio Track" key commands are genius and will give me more free time to come up with more music instead of clicking menus all day. Cheers!

You're so relaxing to watch man. Hands down the best Cubase teacher on KZfaq! Keep up the good vibes brother :)

Im a producer from Ghana ,in west africa u have really changed my life in music production , i almost gave up but with u im getting better every day..thank you soo much .. "Nyame nshira woo paa".. literally means God bless you

Dear Dom, I enjoy your videos a lot! I re-startetd making music with Cubase after many years. So, your videos really help me to get back into the swing of things. Keep up the great work!

U r the Cubase God 😜!Work for more than 30 years with Cubase,but.... still can learn some stuff from you!Great work,like always!

You rock Mr. Sigalas! Ty for the helpful hints. I've also found you can set up shortcuts on your midi controllers as well. Very helpful 👍🏿

Thank you! I'm new to Cubase, but not computers. Keyboard shortcuts are awesome for efficiency. Thank you for sharing great ones for Cubase to get me started fast. Minor Note: On my computer, Cubase Pro 11 is using Shift+G/H for zooming vertically, and Alt+G/H for zooming waveforms (the opposite of what you said - not sure if this is new or not, because I'm to Cubase). Stopped me for minute, but it only took a moment to look this up. Knowing about the shortcut was the key, and I got that from you. Thank you!

Thanks Dom. Some useful ideas to add to my existing shortcuts

Man, thanks for all of your crazy content. Guys like you are Angel for people who are trying to learn by themselves!!! Thanks again !

amazing!!! Thanks Dom

Thank you for all these shortcuts! I'm new to Cubase....just diving into it now and really trying to get a hold of it finally, it's all so very helpful! I'm trying to have some better workflow with my projects! Thank you!

As usual... very clear, and useful tut's. Great job Dom. Greetings from Romania👍

Thank you, Dom. Very useful.

I knew most of these but Dom always shows at least 1 thing I didn't know about! So glad I found his channel 😁

I like the quantise short cuts. Handy!! Good stuff

God bless you bro.. these have been super helpful

Super helpful Dom, many I wasn't up with (even though in e-manual of course! 😬 ....) 😎🎹👍🎼🍻

It really helps mate! Thanks! I subscribed for more cubase stuff :)

some handy shortcuts there Dom - some I didn't know! Curious to hear about any other macro's you've got in Cubase or general music production :-)

Nice and helpful teachings! 🙏

Thanks Dom .. just set up the quantize shortcuts !!

Thanks Dom. I learned a few easier methods of doing things. I appreciate these videos so much.

The reset quantize shortcut/idea is pretty clever ;) What I did for my quantize resolution = ctrl + 1-4: previous, next, toggle triplet, and quantize settings respectively. For what it's worth I also have toggle dotted quantize on shift + 3, but that's rare for me to use. I find it pretty logical placement considering that the quantize shortcut is Q. The game changers for me were Edit Instrument (numpad 7), Edit Channel Settings(numpad 8), Key Editor(numpad 4), Drum Editor(numpad 5)... it just feels good.

Wow the reset quantize is huge! I learned something new. Subscribing now! For those who are just learning about tip #1. Another cool way to get stutter is to highlight all the chops, then move the endings of each chop toward the left so there’s space between each chop. Then fade the endings in a little. It’s a very quick way to get stutters.

Really nice and useful video for Cubase users! Keep it up Dom! :-)

Love it great shortcuts

Man, thank you! So useful and important.

I love this video so dam much, and the top 20 Reasons cubase is the best DAW. I've gone back to both a dozen or so times since the 1st time.

Amazing ! Thanks :)

EXCEPTIONAL AS EVER DOM!

Coming from ableton to try something fresh and your videos have been a god send 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Love the thumbnail Dom! 😍

really useful, cheers Dom

Man, the macros for putting selected channels to group or FX channels are so good! That was always something where Logic made it easier.. not anymore, it seems! I just started with Cubase again, I missed it ;)

Shift + G/H and ALT + G?H work the other way around for me, no idea why. But that doesn't matter, it works and that counts. I'm learning so much here, it's really awesome!!

I have a few already, however I definitely need to get better at my shortcuts. This was helpful for sure.

Excellent clip, thanks Dom :-)

Very good tutorial

Excellent video. Thank you.

Thank you dom

Thank you!

Great video man 🤘

Nice, I learned some new ones. One of my most valuable hotkeys is ', which is a macro that contains locators to selection, insert cycle marker and navigate right. Huge time save when you need to select and export, say, 50 audio files, which is common in sampling. Just hold down the key until it's all selected, set up naming convention, batch export cycle markers, and it's done. I rememeber my miserable days of doing it manually. Make macros of everything you do often.

This will help me transition to mixing in Cubase quicker, thank you!

Hi Dom name is Ray (Floatwithme) a Dutch composer. I am glad that I have subscribed. great channel. Keep up that amazing work. Cheers Ray

The add FX to channel macro is a game changer! Also the quantize value!

Thanks man .. very cool! Love your videos.

Thank you so much! That was helpful.

Great stuff

Thanks friend; it was very useful !

Gréat vid, Dom!!! Your vidz are soooooo helpful!! Thanks agáin véry much!! Adri from Holland

I've been DAWless for a while, Logic Pro seems a bit more user friendly but Yamaha's Cubase is my 2nd go to as I own both the MODX6 and the MX49. Biggest pain in DAW's is getting the synths to work, particularly the MicroFreak, UNO and Monologue, just bought a Focusrite Solo will see if it gets easier.

Hey Dom , thanks for your videos ! I've learned so much tips ! could you make videos on grooves on cubase , in audio and midi files , that would be awesome ! Thanks for the video you've done so far !

I barely knew any of these! thank you so much. I have wasted so much time before watching this video

Thanks Dom, You are a Good teacher. Can you please make a video on how to find the the accurate tempo of an a track in Cubase.

GOod stuff homie. Thanks I sub'd and liked

Great stuff thank you!!

most of them için know but for the others really really thank you! and is like your clockwork orange tshirt 🤘

Really helpful

Man you're a blessing :))

thank you ! i lurn a lot !

Thank you

Cycle markers are great!

Thanks for all !

Thanks for that Chopping short cut Trip awsome

very useful.

thanks so much

The view from your window is beautiful

Awesome video man thanks. Is it possible to assign a shortcut to a specific insert? Say for example second or third insert of the selected channel. Thanks.

Great video! Please, share more "secret weapons" with us! :)

Ty sir, love from india 😊😍❤️

I use Ctrl + K to bring up that Key Command window ("K" for Key). Always need to bring it up and search for commands that I've forgotten. Whatever Ctrl + K was assigned to before, I wasn't using. And I reassigned the Snap On/Off to be the A key. If you were taught to touch type, your left pinky will always be resting on the A key. Ctrl + Shift + 1 to add a new mono audio track (ie. "1" for 1 channel) and Ctrl + Shift + 2 for a new stereo audio channel (ie. "2" for 2 channels... makes sense to me) Ctrl + Shift + V for a new instrument track ("V" for VST in my mind) Ctrl + Alt + E to bring up the export window ("E" for export, obviously) I think that's a custom one too, but I'm not sure..?

Hello Dom, thanks for the good tutorials. I have to say that in Cubase Elements I couldn't find the "Cycle Selection" shortcut, maybe is a function of Cubase Pro.

Hi ! You can deactivate snap on-the-go while moving event by pressing CMD on Mac.

Thanks!

Worth the price of admission for alt+P alone.

Thanks

If anyone is interested, a while ago I built a tool that displays cubase shortcuts as a web page that can then e.g. be printed (alternatively a CSV file). It’s a single page web application , you need to download the html file and open it with Chrome or Firefox (safari might work, not tested). Sadly there is no way to get the localized names so it’s only in English. Also it can only display used key commands, not empty ones. github.com/janminor/cubase

Big fan sir from India

Its awesome, I LOVE your tutorials but I think many users would love you to add chapters to this one, so they can skip known shortcuts, would that be a thing you would consider? Thanks so much !

Hi dom, press shift plus mouse scroll, and Carlisle mouse scroll is very useful to move in your project...also use z key to make track large

Good Trip Good Tricks! (Y) You're my guru!

Thanks for the tips, just noticed that for the 1st tip, you don't need to adjust quantize to change the segment lengths. Cubase simply cuts the segments into equal sizes, using the 1st segment as a reference point.

The zooms work with the mouse scroll wheel, using shift, alt, ctrl..

"We all know G and H are zoom in and zoom out right? Good." Me after years of using Cubase...Um, I do now. Thanks!

you're a boss sir

😊👌 Thanx

Anytime when I see "10 xxx" I expect clickbait, that, at best, provides 1-2 helful tips. This was a blast. Crazy good invest of 18 minutes.

On Mac you can press and hold the command key and drag the part which is the same as pressing J, except when you let go it goes back to snap mode

Hey Don. Thank you so much for this video. I'm learning and learning from your content. I found a little thing in your video that I need to know: At 8:11 you changed the grid with your keyboard. HOW DID YOU DO THAT? I'm searching for this function, since I started with Cubase. Please, let me know. ;-)

Dear Dom, thanks for all your videos, I follow them regularly. Is there any way I can create options like If I can type K my Kontakt will open or press O to open Omnisphere??

for moving things freely just hold "Command"

hey i set reset quantize to control shift q as well

Thanks and all are very useful tips. I have a track with reverb insert, and I want to de-activate the reverb for a section of the track, can I use the shift-X to do that? What is the procedure?

Hey! Cubase friend here ;) I just switched from Logic Pro X to Cubase 10.5 again. May I ask what version you use, on what system? Before, I could work with 100 tracks and Logic was about half CPU/audio usage... now on Cubase 10.5 I reach the limit with aroudn 30 tracks. Is it a problem with the 10.5 version and Mac? Thanks! Great videos by the way :)

I basically made post it notes until I remember them all. Great video and your channel is perfect to help upcoming artists / producers. Can you do a video where you record vocals into the daw and the whole process with preamp settings and tracking FX etc.? Pretty Please ;)