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Tune your 808 in Cubase

Drop the 808 you want on a Sampler Track. Read its note here, save it tuned, then set the root key in Sampler Control, so the key you play is the note you hear.

Mika, the resident

Mika runs the night in the app. Between walks he tells Cubase which key the 808 is.Pick a WAV, AIFF or MP3 of one hit. It is read in this browser.

or drop a file on this card

In Cubase, step by step

  1. Read the 808 above. Leave the target on the nearest note and save the tuned WAV: the cents are gone, the length is the same.
  2. Drag the tuned WAV into the Sampler Control of a Sampler Track.
  3. A file without root key information comes in at C3. Double-click the Root Key field on the Sampler Control toolbar and type the note the line under the result names, or drag the root key handle in the keyboard section.
  4. Play that note: the sample sounds at its own pitch, and every other key follows.

Keeping the original file instead? The Pitch section's Fine control fine-tunes the sample in cents: turn it against the reading, so 23 cents sharp is −23.

Checked against Steinberg's Cubase and Nuendo operation manual (Setting the Root Key Manually: C3 when a file has none, the root key handle, the Root Key field; the Sampler Control toolbar: Monophonic, Legato; the Pitch section: Octave, Coarse, Fine in cents) and Steinberg's forum on middle C in Cubase (C3, MIDI note 60).

Why Cubase says F0 when this page says F1

Cubase calls middle C, MIDI note 60, C3: the key this page calls C4, with A4 at 440 Hz. That is also why a file without root key information lands at C3, on middle C. So an 808 at F1 here (43.65 Hz) is F0 in Cubase.

The line under the result gives the note in Cubase's numbering. Counting by hand: take one off the octave.

808 slides on a Sampler Track

Turn on Monophonic on the Sampler Control toolbar so one note plays at a time. With Legato on as well, a note played legato only moves the pitch of the sample: that is the 808 slide, and it lands on the note you wrote once the root key is right.

The Pitch section moves everything you play: Octave in octaves, Coarse in semitones, Fine in cents. The root key only tells Cubase which key is the sample's own; for a song in another key, move the notes, not the root key.

Then make something of it

The note goes into Brumm as a bassline on an 808, in a running club track. The WAV is yours: 24-bit, mono; a WAV keeps its sample rate.

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