18 years of using Cubase but I've learnt more new tricks from your videos in the past 2 months of watching them than in any 2 month period of my life before. Great job, Dom.
Just a beginner and trying to get my head around all of the features of the various Steinberg stuff like Grove Agent and Halion. Massive amount of information to try and process/remember/apply. Getting better with each video that adds to my options. The best part is I can watch the videos a bunch of times to verify or recall how to do something. I love the energy you bring to each episode. Well done. Rick
Dude I have had Cubase for YEARS and never knew it did most of this stuff! You've reignited my passion for writing and producing. Stuff I'd been paying other people to do I can do myself with ease!! Wow! Thanks so much for doing these videos!
Hey! Thank you for showing all of this it’s truly helpful in so many ways. I see a lack of coverage on this DAW in the hip hop community and plan to build a channel focused on Cubase for this genre specifically since TH-cam is saturated with hip hop content for other daws like FL and Ableton and Cubase is so slept on !
You are the best Cubase teacher for sure, your happy entusiasme is just so catching its amazing ! Thanks man, and yes please just share your knowledge on drum programing, finger drumming and all that drum stuf and more.
Maybe it’s overkill but I use samples directly in the editor. It allows precise control over every single hit. But there is a trick to using it efficiently- create a folder. In that folder add two audio channels. For one of those audio channels create an empty region for the length of four bars or whatever. On the other, lay out your bass drum pattern. Collapse the folder. Repeat for each drum, and put them into another folder called drums. Copy / paste the folder event without worrying about what’s going on with individual clip events. Perform micro edits with ease. That’s the adapted technique I learned from professional producers / djs. Cubase does that better than other DAWs.
I want to thank you Dom, I purchased Cubase 13 Pro 2 weeks ago, Ive used other DAWs for many years, but you are helping me acclimate myself to Cubase much faster than I would have otherwise. Thank you so much!!
Hello, I am Dan, A Music Producer and Cubase 10 user from Bakersfield. Really learnt a lot watching your video on programming drums! Can you please upload a video on how to finger drum and the techniques that you use. It will be really helpful for someone like me who does not have a good background on playing drums. Thanks a lot.
Every time I think I know what I'm doing, I watch one of your videos demonstrating it...and realize that there are a ton of functions in there I didn't know about! I use the drum editor all the time, and I'm going to be much more productive with what I just learned from your video! I had no idea Beat designer even existed. This is going to save me so much time...
beat designer has been my goto plugin for creating beats for many years..the reason why i love it is the velocitys are colour coded also you can copy and paste beats so its easier to create variations..so glad you spotlighted it dom :)
Hey Dom, Just wanted to show a bit of appreciation for all you do! I've been a cubase elements user for years, but just recently dove into pro. Your tutorials have made me realize, I should have done this years ago! But, better late than never. Your tutorials are super easy to follow, and understand. I feel as though when i decided to pull the trigger, and make the transition you pretty much held the door open for me, lol. I dig your prospective, and look forward to browsing the rest of your video library. Thank you, and keep doing what you're doing! sincerely, -iColdSynthetic.
I would appreciate so much if you made a video all about drums. -Programming drums using keyboard or pad? -loading samples to vst and midi/pads? -how to route the drums in grooveagent5 to mixer so i can mix separately?Etc. thank u ahead of time for reading:)
Hi Dom, Now that is a really useful video. I am a cubase user for over 20 years and have tried to keep up with all the changes. I upgraded to Groove agant 5 and really lost the plot. The interface was like a total mistery. SO it took me ages to get any drums out of Cubase. After long nights on youtube I finally discovered using GA with patterns and a keyboard that is a really fun way to create drumparts. I knew the keyeditor but I am not so good at playing drums live you you do on a keyboard. I knew the drumeditor but never thought that was easy to use and the patterns always started sounding cluncky. The GA with the patterns and just playing the fills etc live is a great way to work for me now. I must say I also have Logic and almost departed from Cubase because of the incomprehensible way the GA 5 works. The Logic drummer feels far better for a simple songwriter like myself. But after finally discovering I am happy now. And after using cubase as my DAW for all those years it is hard to step away. Thanks for you videos they really help, Jos
Finally! Didn't know it had a drum editor. THANK YOU!!! New to Cubase, and looking for a way to create a natural sounding side percussion loop (shaker/bongo/tambourine). I don't have a midi keyboard available in my current circumstances. Not knowing about the drum editor, I just programmed a bunch of percussion samples directly to the timeline. Painful!! I knew there had to be a better way. I loaded Groove Agent and only found drum kits and no side percussion elements. Your demonstration showed that Groove Agent does have those other percussion elements looks like. Can't wait to try it now. Tried LoopMasher and that one didn't make any sense to me either.
Thank you Dom. Excellent practical tutorials as usual. Been lost at programming drums, and in GA, but much happier and informed going forward now. Bought your drum kit too. Top stuff. Thanks again, go well ok
Thank you! I had no idea these things existed. I was looking round to buy a simple drum sequencer for electronic drums and all the available ones have too many features and are over complicated. Then it occurred to me that there was probably something already within Cubase. Your video has explained not just one, but three other ways to do it other than my usual finger drum/key editor method. Excellent!
From the beginning I simply played the drums on my keyboard. I didn't know about BeatDesigner and Pattern functions. I will definitely explore Patterns because that will fit my production style.
I'm new to cubase I've binged watch a lot of your videos over the weekend. Damn you're a great Instructor and a content creator. Learning is fun when the person teaching it makes it look fun. I've learn so much from these videos, coming from FL Studio/Ableton im ready to Dive in Cubase. Looking forward to see more videos keep up the great work!!
Thanks you so much from France, Dom ! As always, your videos are a huge source of information and inspiration, for me both on Cubase and Yamaha Modx, and it's so much more a pleasure and fun to listen to it better than having to read boring manuals ;) As a suggestion for a next video, I would like to know your main tips and tricks on how to manipulate midi events in the key editor in an efficient way, especially using the drawing toolbar buttons (for exemples: how to shift a loop, insert blanks somewhere, impacting all tracks, how to update shades and add "life" on midi notes, giving it more natural feeling, or also how to slow down or accelerate all the tracks, etc...). Thaaannnnnnk you !!!
omggg gotta say buddy your killing it!! Stumbled upon your account through a cubase 11 video :D right away i thought doctormix but now your solo and i love tour vibe and the way u tell the content str8 to the point just how it is AMAZINGG p.s. plz teach us anything and eveyehring about DRUMS & FINGER/PAD Drumming
didn't even know about the beat designer. very cool. didnt know you could drag and drop groove agent patterns into key editor to edit further. very handy tips thank you
I'm really bad at finger drumming. I used to play a real drum lol it's so complicated to play this way. To me, I'm bad at it and working my way up. An instructive video would be most welcomed. Your videos are amazing dom. Thanks.
Yes, please! I really would like to learn to fingerdrum... Power Metal is my main genre, so, if you could play a little metal section, it would be awesome!
I think you are one of the best on youtube ,your vid are great and honestly I would love and can't wait for that video (learning how to use keyboard on drum programing) to come out .pliz make one .best teacher ever.
Dom, you are amazing and your videos are so inspiring. Yes, please help us program modern drums in Cubase. Not drums that sound like real drums, but rather abstract, yet punchy drums that can be used in contemporary pop music. Thank you in advance.
Hi Dom, can you please show me how to quantize the drum parts with swing, because in my quantize dropdown there isn't those choices. Thank you for your very useful videos !!
Very complete and dynamic tutorial, and I précaire thanks ! I did not know about bIg design - I am only starting but I guess I would use the MDI keyboard. My question would be how to design your own drum pattern from a first audio file after a new guitar-voice composition
Hi Dom, great knowledge base! Some of us would love to see a video about using V-Drums (like Roland TD30) with Cubase (Groove Agent) but utilising MIDI, rather than Audio track - so that you have a chance to amend your mistakes. Such a popular kit like Roland TD30 seems to be quite painful to correctly set up to play MIDI track (inevitably, hitting a Tom sounds like a Crash after switching from Audio to MIDI and the whole thing stops making any sense). I naively thought that all you had to do was to connect your TD30 to Cubase and all the sounds and nuances would also be available in MIDI - not so much (unless I am doing something wrong). I even upgraded to the full version of Groove Agent 5 and bought Marco Minneman expansion, hoping for correct representation of the V-drums in MIDI track.. not the case. Your invaluable input would be sssssoooooo appreciated!!
I had a look at the MIDI Implementation chart for the TD30 (I thought "How hard can it be?"). It was like going back to the nightmares I had with synths in the early 1990s (JD800 with a ton of SysEx as an example). Did you manage to get it working?
@@172Break Ha! So it seems to be a real problem, then. No - I haven't managed to figure it out and I reverted back to recording audio tracks, straight from TD30, via Audient ASP880 and UA Apollo interface into my Cubase DAW. It sounds great. And yes - I am scarred for life, no more MIDI for me!
Good video! I'm familiar with these methods but my favorite method has been to use my outboard drum machines ( Alesis SR16, Roland and Yamaha drum machines) and create the song in them, record the midi information into Cubase!
18 years of using Cubase but I've learnt more new tricks from your videos in the past 2 months of watching them than in any 2 month period of my life before. Great job, Dom.
Absolutely interested in finger drumming.
Me too :-)
@@alanyost4061 Me three ;-)
Yes, finger drumming please!
Gets my vote too!
Me too!
Merci ! Thank you 4 your work Dom, very useful, very sweet to follow, hold your touchees! Best regards
Just a beginner and trying to get my head around all of the features of the various Steinberg stuff like Grove Agent and Halion. Massive amount of information to try and process/remember/apply. Getting better with each video that adds to my options. The best part is I can watch the videos a bunch of times to verify or recall how to do something. I love the energy you bring to each episode. Well done.
Rick
Dude I have had Cubase for YEARS and never knew it did most of this stuff! You've reignited my passion for writing and producing. Stuff I'd been paying other people to do I can do myself with ease!! Wow! Thanks so much for doing these videos!
I second that, ... awesome material Dom 💪🙌
Hey! Thank you for showing all of this it’s truly helpful in so many ways. I see a lack of coverage on this DAW in the hip hop community and plan to build a channel focused on Cubase for this genre specifically since TH-cam is saturated with hip hop content for other daws like FL and Ableton and Cubase is so slept on !
Thanks alottt 🫶
You are the best Cubase teacher for sure, your happy entusiasme is just so catching its amazing ! Thanks man, and yes please just share your knowledge on drum programing, finger drumming and all that drum stuf and more.
Maybe it’s overkill but I use samples directly in the editor. It allows precise control over every single hit. But there is a trick to using it efficiently- create a folder. In that folder add two audio channels. For one of those audio channels create an empty region for the length of four bars or whatever. On the other, lay out your bass drum pattern. Collapse the folder. Repeat for each drum, and put them into another folder called drums. Copy / paste the folder event without worrying about what’s going on with individual clip events. Perform micro edits with ease.
That’s the adapted technique I learned from professional producers / djs. Cubase does that better than other DAWs.
Amazing Dom! Your tutorials are pure gold!
I want to thank you Dom, I purchased Cubase 13 Pro 2 weeks ago, Ive used other DAWs for many years, but you are helping me acclimate myself to Cubase much faster than I would have otherwise. Thank you so much!!
Hello, I am Dan, A Music Producer and Cubase 10 user from Bakersfield. Really learnt a lot watching your video on programming drums! Can you please upload a video on how to finger drum and the techniques that you use. It will be really helpful for someone like me who does not have a good background on playing drums. Thanks a lot.
Thanks a lot! Finally I've found the best TH-cam channel for learning Cubase!!!
Every time I think I know what I'm doing, I watch one of your videos demonstrating it...and realize that there are a ton of functions in there I didn't know about! I use the drum editor all the time, and I'm going to be much more productive with what I just learned from your video! I had no idea Beat designer even existed. This is going to save me so much time...
awesome Cubase. Over the years, this DAW is still high quality and remains at the forefront of innovative and inspiring products.
Thank You!
I just got cubase and this is where i started taking notes. ill be watching more videos and learning. Thanks Dom!
Dom you the best Cubase resource on TH-cam. I learn so so so much from your videos. Thank you for the time you put aside to do them
beat designer has been my goto plugin for creating beats for many years..the reason why i love it is the velocitys are colour coded also you can copy and paste beats so its easier to create variations..so glad you spotlighted it dom :)
Dom, you did it again! My favorite drum programming is the Beat Designer - this is incredible - thanks for hooping me up!!!!
Great tutorial! Thanks!
Viva Cubase! muchas gracias Dom excelente tutorial!
I use CUBASE since 2 decades, your videos are showing me everytime a lbit new, thx!
Atari 1040ST was my first Cubase
Amazing Finger Drumming Dom...👏👏👏👏 from 🇬🇷
You make the best Cubase videos ever! Thank you :-)
great Tuts Dom, drums for a non drummer, the Beat Designer looks a great way to Start so very interested in a beat designer tut, Cheers Dom
Hey Dom, Just wanted to show a bit of appreciation for all you do! I've been a cubase elements user for years, but just recently dove into pro. Your tutorials have made me realize, I should have done this years ago! But, better late than never. Your tutorials are super easy to follow, and understand. I feel as though when i decided to pull the trigger, and make the transition you pretty much held the door open for me, lol. I dig your prospective, and look forward to browsing the rest of your video library. Thank you, and keep doing what you're doing! sincerely, -iColdSynthetic.
I would appreciate so much if you made a video all about drums. -Programming drums using keyboard or pad?
-loading samples to vst and midi/pads?
-how to route the drums in grooveagent5 to mixer so i can mix separately?Etc.
thank u ahead of time for reading:)
I knew 2. Every time I watch your videos I learn something. Fantastic!
Hello Dom, it`s always great to see your videos and learn about it. Great Job!!!!
Glad you like them!
I love you Dom. Keep doing great!
Brilliant! After seeing this, I can speed up my drum programming several 100 %,
Hi Dom, Now that is a really useful video. I am a cubase user for over 20 years and have tried to keep up with all the changes. I upgraded to Groove agant 5 and really lost the plot. The interface was like a total mistery. SO it took me ages to get any drums out of Cubase. After long nights on youtube I finally discovered using GA with patterns and a keyboard that is a really fun way to create drumparts. I knew the keyeditor but I am not so good at playing drums live you you do on a keyboard. I knew the drumeditor but never thought that was easy to use and the patterns always started sounding cluncky. The GA with the patterns and just playing the fills etc live is a great way to work for me now. I must say I also have Logic and almost departed from Cubase because of the incomprehensible way the GA 5 works. The Logic drummer feels far better for a simple songwriter like myself. But after finally discovering I am happy now. And after using cubase as my DAW for all those years it is hard to step away. Thanks for you videos they really help, Jos
Finally! Didn't know it had a drum editor. THANK YOU!!!
New to Cubase, and looking for a way to create a natural sounding side percussion loop (shaker/bongo/tambourine). I don't have a midi keyboard available in my current circumstances. Not knowing about the drum editor, I just programmed a bunch of percussion samples directly to the timeline. Painful!! I knew there had to be a better way. I loaded Groove Agent and only found drum kits and no side percussion elements. Your demonstration showed that Groove Agent does have those other percussion elements looks like. Can't wait to try it now. Tried LoopMasher and that one didn't make any sense to me either.
Thank you Dom. Excellent practical tutorials as usual. Been lost at programming drums, and in GA, but much happier and informed going forward now. Bought your drum kit too. Top stuff. Thanks again, go well ok
Wow learnt a lot. We want more ❤️
Great video. Didi not know there were so many ways to do drums in Cubase. Thank you.
Thank you! I had no idea these things existed. I was looking round to buy a simple drum sequencer for electronic drums and all the available ones have too many features and are over complicated. Then it occurred to me that there was probably something already within Cubase. Your video has explained not just one, but three other ways to do it other than my usual finger drum/key editor method. Excellent!
Drumming! I always thought I am the best keyboard drummer ... then I saw you ... ;-) I look forward to your new videos every Friday.
100% interested in finger drumming tips and techniques. 👍
I've learnt a lot from these videos. Keep 'em coming. They are blessing some of us greatly.
Thanks
As always very helpful. Thanks Dom👍❤️
So nice that tutorial. I didn't know about beat designer. Thank you so much. And yes, a tutorial about finger drumming is welcome!
Σιγάλα σ'αγαπώ. Έψαχνα τυχαία το θέμα και σε βρήκα. Μπράβο για ότι κάνεις!
Maaaaaan - thank you! Pws pas??? :)
'Ολα καλά εδώ στο Κάρντιφ. Αν περάσεις από δω πέρνα να σε φιλοξενήσουμε! Φιλιά!
From the beginning I simply played the drums on my keyboard. I didn't know about BeatDesigner and Pattern functions. I will definitely explore Patterns because that will fit my production style.
I knew all of these but beat designer is my favorite one- thank you for your tips !
Excellent tutorial. Good pace and neutral approach. Awesome
The Drum Editor is the number 1 reason I'm still in Cubase. :)
I'm new to cubase I've binged watch a lot of your videos over the weekend. Damn you're a great Instructor and a content creator. Learning is fun when the person teaching it makes it look fun. I've learn so much from these videos, coming from FL Studio/Ableton im ready to Dive in Cubase. Looking forward to see more videos keep up the great work!!
omg mate this is so helpful! Thanks a lot for showing me around in this endless field of optons :)
Thanks you so much from France, Dom ! As always, your videos are a huge source of information and inspiration, for me both on Cubase and Yamaha Modx, and it's so much more a pleasure and fun to listen to it better than having to read boring manuals ;)
As a suggestion for a next video, I would like to know your main tips and tricks on how to manipulate midi events in the key editor in an efficient way, especially using the drawing toolbar buttons (for exemples: how to shift a loop, insert blanks somewhere, impacting all tracks, how to update shades and add "life" on midi notes, giving it more natural feeling, or also how to slow down or accelerate all the tracks, etc...). Thaaannnnnnk you !!!
I am new to Cubase and music production.....your channel is so helpful....thank you!
Dom you are amazing..respect
Ur a life savior Dom!Keep dem flowin!🤘
Dom, thank you for all that you do! I recently upgraded to 10.5 & stumbled across your channel. Your knowledge & advise has helped INCREDIBLY 😎🎵👍
What a great tutorial.
Very helpful video! I would love a video of your method of playing the drums on the keyboard. Thank you!!
Wow! Thanks for your tips.
Thank you again, great tuto !
Love your videos. Thx for the information, I really had no idea there was such a dope workflow on my cubase . Beat designer is the mack
omggg gotta say buddy your killing it!! Stumbled upon your account through a cubase 11 video :D right away i thought doctormix but now your solo and i love tour vibe and the way u tell the content str8 to the point just how it is AMAZINGG
p.s. plz teach us anything and eveyehring about DRUMS & FINGER/PAD Drumming
Awesome video. By far the best on cubase. Subscribed
Very cool. Just what I needed to move forward. Thanks much.
Yes Please Dom, A vid on programming drums would be very much appreciated
Coming very soon!
@@DomSigalas thanks for your response
Amazing video
I've been scratching my head how to use groove agent to make a drum track. Thanks for this video.
This video is absolutely awesome - I swear you are getting better at this!!
You are amaaaazing! Keep it coming Dom luv from down under :)
didn't even know about the beat designer. very cool. didnt know you could drag and drop groove agent patterns into key editor to edit further. very handy tips thank you
Really nice Dom!! Thanks a lot! Yes, a vídeo with finger drumming would be great!!
I'm really bad at finger drumming. I used to play a real drum lol it's so complicated to play this way. To me, I'm bad at it and working my way up. An instructive video would be most welcomed. Your videos are amazing dom. Thanks.
Thanks again Dom S.! I'm getting my mind ready to jump into Cubase 10 from Nuendo. CAN'T WAIT!
Learning from you every day. Thank you
Thank! Very helpful again.
Muchas gracias, super bien el tutorial, feliz noche.
That finger-drumming is jaw-dropping.
Always celebrate your intro! ;) Thanks for your informative videos!
Yet another excellent tutorial. Been using Cubase since last century but these vids always teach me something new.
Yes, please! I really would like to learn to fingerdrum... Power Metal is my main genre, so, if you could play a little metal section, it would be awesome!
Another great video.... succinct and informative! Keep up the great work!
Great stuff Dom👍
Excellent video! Thanks
So helpful . Cheers !
I think you are one of the best on youtube ,your vid are great and honestly I would love and can't wait for that video (learning how to use keyboard on drum programing) to come out .pliz make one .best teacher ever.
Already done that :)
Yes, I would like to see a tutorial of programming the drums by hand like you did in the start or also by the editor but in depth, Dom. Thank you!!!
Love the Drum Editor! Wasn't sure it existed.Thanks!
Thanks so much! Exactly what I was looking for👏👏👏
Thanks again what a nice refresher plus new things I didn't pick up on the last time I watched it
I like the sampler in cubase! 😋
Dom, you are amazing and your videos are so inspiring. Yes, please help us program modern drums in Cubase. Not drums that sound like real drums, but rather abstract, yet punchy drums that can be used in contemporary pop music. Thank you in advance.
You rock, Dom!! Thx for sharing so much knowledge in such an accessible and fun way!! Cheers from Sao Paulo, Brazil ;)
Loving your channel
Hi Dom, can you please show me how to quantize the drum parts with swing, because in my quantize dropdown there isn't those choices. Thank you for your very useful videos !!
Very complete and dynamic tutorial, and I précaire thanks ! I did not know about bIg design - I am only starting but I guess I would use the MDI keyboard. My question would be how to design your own drum pattern from a first audio file after a new guitar-voice composition
Hi Dom, great knowledge base!
Some of us would love to see a video about using V-Drums (like Roland TD30) with Cubase (Groove Agent) but utilising MIDI, rather than Audio track - so that you have a chance to amend your mistakes.
Such a popular kit like Roland TD30 seems to be quite painful to correctly set up to play MIDI track (inevitably, hitting a Tom sounds like a Crash after switching from Audio to MIDI and the whole thing stops making any sense).
I naively thought that all you had to do was to connect your TD30 to Cubase and all the sounds and nuances would also be available in MIDI - not so much (unless I am doing something wrong). I even upgraded to the full version of Groove Agent 5 and bought Marco Minneman expansion, hoping for correct representation of the V-drums in MIDI track.. not the case.
Your invaluable input would be sssssoooooo appreciated!!
I had a look at the MIDI Implementation chart for the TD30 (I thought "How hard can it be?"). It was like going back to the nightmares I had with synths in the early 1990s (JD800 with a ton of SysEx as an example). Did you manage to get it working?
@@172Break Ha! So it seems to be a real problem, then. No - I haven't managed to figure it out and I reverted back to recording audio tracks, straight from TD30, via Audient ASP880 and UA Apollo interface into my Cubase DAW. It sounds great. And yes - I am scarred for life, no more MIDI for me!
@@mariusz-uk lol!
Good video! I'm familiar with these methods but my favorite method has been to use my outboard drum machines ( Alesis SR16, Roland and Yamaha drum machines) and create the song in them, record the midi information into Cubase!
Would really want to see an in depth video. Awesome.
great lesson!!
Thank you Dom for this tricks, you make me the life easier 😊😍👏
You deserve 100x the subscribers you have.
Yes I would like to learn your approach for finger drumming. You do it well!!