Tutorial for Gating(Trancegate) in Cubase SX using Midi Gate and Step Designer

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Posted by Limit on Aug-27-2004 08:45:

Tutorial for Gating(Trancegate) in Cubase SX using Midi Gate and Step Designer

Ok guys if your like me and you love that gating sound of pads, effects or whatever, then I have found a little gem inside Cubase Sx that you can use to do the trick. Some may know this, but for those who don't try it out..its sweet.

1.First Open Cubase, and open a new or existing project.

2.add a midi track and an audio track

3.in the audio track you just opened insert the midi gate effect(should be under-dynamics->midi gate)

4.Now in the midi channel you just opened set the output to midi gate.

5.Open the midi gate plugin(in the audio track) if it did not already, and set all the perameters to Zero and set "Note to release" to 5 and "hold Mode" to note off. (you can play around with the other perameters l8r)

6.Now in the midi track insert the step designer midi effect.

7.Now record a Pad or whatever sound you want in the audio track to be gated(don't worry if you don't hear gating yet)

8.Now set the steps in which you want the gating to take place in step designer in the midi track.

9.Press play and viola you have a gating effect or you can call it a
trancegate.(play around with the steps to get the effect you want).

Note: If you do not want to use the step designer to set notes to be gated then you can use a simple midi track that you just record notes that you play or an existing midi file, or you can play live.(if you don not understand how to use a midi track to gate instead of step designer let me know and I will add it to this tutorial).

Hope this is usefull for somebody!

Limit out!

Posted by Paragod on Aug-27-2004 13:49:

... or simply use my plugin:

mgTriggerGate v0.17 (FREEWARE)
http://www.mgaudio.de

have fun

Posted by Limit on Aug-27-2004 16:22:

will definitely have to try that out...but if it takes up too much cpu then I'll have ot go back to my way.

Posted by Frase on Aug-27-2004 16:33:

Could someone tell me please what Gating means/does?

Thanks

Posted by Tranc3 on Aug-27-2004 17:27:

quote:
Originally posted by Frase
Could someone tell me please what Gating means/does?

Thanks

It's like talking into a fan.

I imagine it as a river, only instead of water there's sound. Then there's this floodgate that spans the entire length - one side for low frequencies, the other side for high frequencies. A typical gating effect will have the floodgates open and close really quickly so the resulting sound gets split up into segments with "holes" or gaps in between the sound you'd hear.

Posted by sonic_akb on Aug-27-2004 17:29:

quote:
Originally posted by Paragod
... or simply use my plugin:

mgTriggerGate v0.17 (FREEWARE)
http://www.mgaudio.de

have fun

Yep, it's a cool plug-in. Thank you Paragod

Posted by Kid Epic on Aug-28-2004 03:51:

any plans of making an OSX version of this?

that would be great if you could!

Posted by Frase on Aug-28-2004 17:57:

quote:
Originally posted by Tranc3
It's like talking into a fan.

I imagine it as a river, only instead of water there's sound. Then there's this floodgate that spans the entire length - one side for low frequencies, the other side for high frequencies. A typical gating effect will have the floodgates open and close really quickly so the resulting sound gets split up into segments with "holes" or gaps in between the sound you'd hear.

Gotcha

Thanks for the explanation