Hi there. I never use the score editor no. I use Dorico for notation stuff.....I don't find the score editor in Cubase very user friendly. When composing it depends whether its creating a melody and adding chords or preparing music to be played by live musicians which determines how I go about it. If it's for live musicians I'll use Dorico but for general composing in Cubase I work as per the videos Ive recorded covering Sketch to Orchestration......those 4 videos kinda covers how I work. Hope this helps. Rob

Most Spitfire libraries use the terms long and shorts meaning long or short notes. Legatos however use some very clever transition technology to slur or slide notes together in a natural sounding way....plus, legatos aren't polyphonic.

@@MusicDirectorOnline cool, thanks very much

That is much easier said than done. There is a practise used by some to place a short midi instance at the beginning of each track that contains volume levels that standardise volumes for each instrument. The problem with that is that every time your return to the beginning of a track, all your volume refer back whether you want it to or not. The tendency is to load each instrument at a volume level around 0db but doing that you soon run out of head room. My suggestion would be to work through your libraries and identify which fall short in levels and then match every other track to those. It's a long laborious job though - I feel the real advantage of templates is have the instruments there and loaded and I just re-adjust the levels of those specific libraries as and when I use them.