Dom, if I say this once, I will say it a thousand times. Your videos are the absolute BEST! There is always something that I get out of them, that I would never have thought about which saves me countless hours. You are the best man! Cannot thank you enough for the pro tips!

Suppose you want to categorise some sounds according to criteria of your own making - e.g. car sounds, clock sounds, children laughing. Here is how: 1] Go to preferences / Media Bay and ensure “Allow editing in results list”. 2] Open up the big screen Media Bay (f5) 3] Go to the Attribute Inspector ensure Defined is selected and teh gear icon is highlighted. 4] You should see a "-+ " icon hover over it it states "Add user attribute - hit the pus sign 5] A dialogue box opens. Add user Atribute 6] Ensure Attribute type is set to text 7] Enter a Disp;lay name - I suggest “My Attributes”. 8] Select some samples that you want to mark with your own attributes e.g. Car Sounds, Church Bell Sounds. 9] In the top of the Results pane in Media Bay is a list of properties - first one is usually name. 10] Realise that this list is modifiable. If a property type is taking up too much space you can grap the side bars and drag them smaller. Also - importantly, by dragging the sliders to the end you can find hidden properties (e.g. bars and beats, tempo etc) 11] Your newly created attribute type “My attributes” should be viewable at hte end of this horizintal list, by dragging the slider at the bottom of the results page 12] Drag this horizontally left unitl it is in the veiwable part of your Results screen 13] You can now enter your own custom categories for each sound type - according to your wishes - Car, Church Bell etc 14] Conveniently, the first time you enter an original category in this attribute, you type in the name of the attribute - “Car”. The second time you wish enter Car, you will find it is already present in a drop down list. 15] As your custom list expands you will be able to select formerly entered categories swiftly. 16] Lastly, it might be worth your while to find a quiet hour, to classify all your own sounds and loops this way. It gets easier after the first couple!

The developers of Cubase are really Genius,this daw is just an amazing ❤❤❤❤❤

In the full media bay you can audition midi files with any active instrument by selecting it at the bottom right.

The full Media Bay (F5) allows me to multi-select a bunch of samples/loops and set their pitch all together if it's not set (at its right side). This happens with my wavs, some (old) ACID loops and the wav output of other loop libraries (Ueberschall) and it's easy with construction kits since they are at the same pitch and you know it. At the start of a project (=before importing loops) I visualize and set the project pitch and insert the transpose track. When all loops are pitch-tagged properly, the small media bay in the Right Zone that you explore in this video will also transpose to project pitch correctly, not only bpm and time-sync. This is highly regarded, since it happens before importing into the project, hence it's fast and you may try many loops until you find one that fits. We can do anything with a project (for instance in the pool) but it would be too late. The next step forward for Cubase 12 would be setting a project scale and having scale adaptation in the media bay, not only transposition (some does it..).

Thank you, Dom, for sharing this video. It's always been a curiosity of mine how music composers and producers sift through their extensive sample libraries to find the perfect sound. The answer, as revealed in point #5, is dedicating time to meticulously tag sounds and samples.

"Am I missing something?" - yes, a free t shirt by the sounds of it!

Media bay is essential - but as always I wish for more 😂 I’d love to be able to preview and tag my sounds (favourites) without sitting at my PC and just using my mobile and somehow magically updating Cubase.. I can kick back and just bumble through my samples and update and manage when I feel like it.. I know I know crazy right

Yes, that Intro is back!🤘🤘

Yes, media bay is the really useful function. But I didn't know about tip number 3. Thanks a lot!

Cool. I started using the Media Bay after I bought the Zoom recorder. It is very convenient to organize my records.

OLD INTRO IS BACK THANKS SO MUCH FOR THAT DOM & awesome video ofc

Am super proud of you Dom,you made me full time producer in cubase after leaving Fl studio. Best decision I made ❤❤❤❤❤

Crazy. I always use media-bay. Never got to reflect the actual name, not a big fan of manuals. So when it got verbal, a big wonder!? -What is this For a funny thing!? Terminology. So important. The way you actually describe things. You’re great on doing this. It’s interesting and educational. Never fails to bring my attention! Spot on! Some new tips as well. Much obliged. Bows on me 🙏

Thanks Dom. I started using Media bay a little over a year ago and love it. You reminded me of some things I forgot I can do.

Dom thanks, it's good but I do so wish Steinberg would reintroduce drag n drop midi parts so we can organize the most important thing of all, the music parts! Just imagine being able to drag to and from the library your most commonly used midi parts!?

Yes, since Cubase 11 this has been my workflow!

I use the media bay all the time,, it's so nice to be able to scroll through hundreds of sampels in a very short time and listen to them back to back, The reason number 5 was very smart I have not thought of that before... Thanks for this!!

I use it a lot, specially for sound effect design in games / trailers. I only wish it was faster to preview VSTi presets. Thanks for a new video!

I have a third screen just for media bay always open. It is the best content management system out of any daw or third party apps. I only wish it would read normal plug in presets as bitwig does. Maybe in the future.

Hi! This was really helpful. Dom, I was trying to figure out how to open the loops and rex files I have in my external drive in Media Bay. You mentioned setting it as a favorite and wallah, I can now open the folder in the project window, media bay to my left. HOORAH! Gracias!

Dom is a legend!

Dom, as always…great video. I have avoided it, but now after watching this tutorial...I am sold!!! Awesome intro!!!

Thanks so much!!!

I cant live without it

you are mint, you have me chuckle when you get in the zone, such a uplifting energy you are haha! :) thank you for your guidance!

Hey, Dom, I use Media Bay…do I get a t-shirt?! 🤣 Seriously, a really useful video, mate (and as entertaining as ever!). The ‘audition in context’ functionality for loops and samples was a revelation - I’ll be using that in the future!💥

You are really very good. Your videos are the best. Thank you very much man.

Always learning from you.... Thank you

The option of playing in context with the song using media bay is awesome I didn't know that existed.

Great lesson as usual 😊

Thank You, Friend!

Great video! You just saved me so much time. I didn’t realize that you could create a sampler track so easily and I was dropping samples on my track and transposing individual segments. Thank you for showing such useful tips!

The beginning was like you were speaking to a date. With the red lighting blurring like love hearts. Lololol you make me laugh and learn. Thank you.

I never knew about the sampler track creation! 😮 Thanks so much Dom! ⭐️

That explains A LOT regarding your T-Shirts... :D

'Sup Dom,I remember watching Ian Kirkpatrick's video utilising the Media Bay and a songwriting audio clip on the Cubase channel around two years ago and BOOM! I was blown away by its sheer efficiency. Media Bay is a production suite in itself and a godsend in my organisation of sounds, instruments et al. I simply cannot imagine music production without it. Thanks for sharing

Thank you, you're awesome 😍

Sure I am going to use Media Bay. There are some functions that I really did not know. Thanks Dom. And thanks also for your good pronunciation in the videos, that ease a lot for non english audience (as myself). Boom...💥

Thanks a lot for all your Videos.

Steinberg should cooperate with Sononym and use their algorithms. That’ll be nice.

Thank you for your video ☺️

Sound advice as always, ta!

Nice Video Dom thanks!

Thanks for sharing!

Instant Like as always :)

Great arguments. Especially for auditioning sounds and loops.

Good info and overview of Media Bay - w-a-y deeper and useful than I thought at first glance. Thanks for taking us through it!

7:20 changed my workflow ,super fast!

why hello there, I am good, thanks Dom, lol, been enjoying been trained by Jedi Cubase master!! getting there! :)

Amazing 🤩

the best!thanks!

Great video, thank you! :)

Awesome.Thank you very much!🍀🏆💓*

Thanks a lot Dom. Could you prepare a video from Padshop 2 step by step explaining each bottom?, Thank you again, your videos are the BEST.

Thanks!

I’m going to make a conscious effort to bring it into my workflow. I’ve never looked into it, looks so useful!

great video!

Can't wait

Bless you Dom!! excellent

Epic intro

The intro is maybe a tad long, but great lighting, Dom! Love the colours.

I dont use cubase but this is still pretty kool. also subbing cause the video looks really kool as well

Thanks Dom, another helpful video. Is that an Atari t-shirt, I started using Cubase on the Atari. Oops that dates me. Cheers Dave

Please demonstrate taking a sample eg kick and use it to supplement/replace a live kick please….or even a video on the different ways you can do this

The mediabay help me produce my tracks more quickly

i am usig cubas e 11

if they could put instant preview of sound and preset similar to Komplete Kontrol as an example, wound be great

Glad you covered this topic! I REALLY wish Cubase would allow us to create and name different instances of Kontakt in the Media Bay Tab's VST Instruments according to the library that we've loaded inside of it. It looks like we can only have 1 icon of Kontakt and 1 icon of Komplete Kontrol, correct?

Really Media bay is the heart of Cubase thank you Dom, observation, am i right that you mirrored your floating picture?!

I would have said instead "WHAT, I want a free t Shirt!", but that's ok Dom, you do you.

Hi Dom. Wonderful video as usual. What did you do to get the 4 to 5 choices after you click on the sound that you were auditioning in the media bay. I notice that when you clicked on a sound that you might have liked, you clicked on something else that made you have about 4 or 5 other choices to do with the sound that you just chosed. I have no idea for how you did that and I would like to know you did to give you those other options you could pick from before you actually put your sound you picked into you project. I sure hope that I explained myself well enough for you to tell me what I wanted to learn from you.

Hahahaha. Im still crying with that t-shirt thing

I need this...

Skip to 2:00 for the actual start of the video.

Please do some psp audioware plugins video

I got a dumbly nice idea for the samples. What if they would make it like in Guitar Rig 6, that you have different colored stars for the Ratings, and you can give every colour a genre or category so if you make a house track you can filter for blue stars for example and it only shows kicks that are for house tracks?

If anyone out there can help, pls do. Is there a way of auditioning loops in MediaBay at halftime or double time? This would be much more convenient, rather than dropping the loop into the project then time-stretching it.

Mediabae

Mediabay needs an update in terms of the preview. There should be an easy channel routing for it, and it should have something like a quick harmony-changer. I mean plugins like Pitchmap are like 7 years old and it works reaaaally well. Don't you think?

can you layer different samples in sample track? I wish I could have different velocities for diferent samples and a way to rrobin or maybe randomize wich sample plays, and also have keyboard zones, as I do in Kontakt... I would rather use some stock sampler track or whatever could be there as an option

bonjour, d'abord bravo pour tes vidéos . Es ce toi qui a créé la musique de ton générique car je la trouve vraiment super

Thank's Dom ! But I remember losing my tags when I upgraded version of Cubase in the past. Maybe that's ok now. I hope so because it's a powerfull tool to manage more and more sounds

thanx great im from srilanka

could you make a video on the supervision in Cubase where you go into more detail on how to read all the analyzers and how to analyze what they are telling you if you know what I mean… I know you have made a video where you show what it can do, but I struggle with understanding what it tells me

Realized, after watching this video, Media Bay is a good thing :) Super useful and will improve my workflow ! Question: In Media Bay, is it possible to delete/uninstall stuff you don't want ? For example, I'd like to remove permanently all Groove Agent SE files. I'm using GA5 full version, those SE are only in the way and annoying me. Thanks !

“Well, hello there.” Priceless. Yeah, the media bay is magical, man. I had to go through and take snapshots of all the instruments and effects though, because I’m OCD and everything needs to match. 😂 But it’s an awesome tool. Great video! 👍🏻

Media bay has soooo many bad things. One is folder scanning... And no auto update library. And it's buggy on playing back certain files... I have many reasons on my list of why NOT to use media bay or why you should use something better. BOOM! 💥 As Dominic likes to put it.

Mr dom a quick one how do you make your metronome works with your media at the same time cos i have been trying to hear both sound at the same time

PLS IN MY MEDIABAY , I GET NO SOUND WHEN I CLICK ON ANY SAMPLE ... PLS HOW CAN THAT BE FIX

Dom very useful this is quite amazing. although there are some musician whom would say this does not make you a musician and are against something like this. I however find it to me great! thank you What other Libraries do you have? I would love to get a hold of your work

Cubase needs layering options, spliters, dual-mono, beter Direct offline procesing aka Reaper's one, sand boxing

hey man...great videos!!! One question tho....how on earth am I supposed to collapse all folders in mediabay at once??? is there a modifier key or shortcut command or sth for that? ithis is so needed especially when u have like almost 20 subfolders in ur sample library folder or such. i thought right clicking and presssing refresh views should do the job but no...that only like refreshes the result page. I need something that collapses all opened folders in the file browser with one click...any help is appreciated!!!! :

Dom - I noticed that the ratings in the individual VSTs (GA, Halion, Retrologue, Prologiue...) don't seem to have any relation to Media Bay Ratings? Is there a way to sync one to the other. I have set most of my ratings in the individual VSTs and I'd like those ratings to be present in Media Bay.

My brother.... I cannot hear the sounds in the media bay why?

I cannot see any attributes, so spent ages on a rescan, but still no luck. Cannot find any help on this problem.

Hi Dom, first, thank you so much for the awesome videos! I have a question, The Steinberg Libraries are not showing up in media bay. I wonder if this is a bug or a feature. If I navigate with the media bay browser to the location, where all my libraries are stored it's not showing it.

Where do I find other signature timed loops like a 3/4,6/8,7/4,7/8 etc all seem to be in only common time unless I physically create my own 😭

MediaBay is amazing. But I wonder, why can't I play MediaBay sound through Phones, when Control Room is set on. I'm not a beginner with Cubase... Any ideas, Dom. Thx in advance

Thanks for this video! Can you please give some advises how to adjust/set the tempo manually for of a loop? I bought some drum loops from a company . All play well outside Cubase.. When I try to drag and drop some of the loops in a Cubase (10 or 11) project - even with a project bpm that perfectly matches the bpm of the loop, it plays in half time or very fast. In other words, Cubase seems not to be able to align the loop time to the project time, (I have the "musical" - function turned on). I guess this might be a matter of decoding in Cubase. I have tried to fix the problem in the Media Bay, so far without success.