List Assistant

Cubase Elements Help

Product
Cubase Elements
Version
13.0
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The List assistant allows you to create chord progressions based on harmonic rules that can be simple or complex.

  • To open the List assistant, double-click a chord event, click Chord Assistant, and click List.

Go to Previous Chord/Go to Next Chord

Allows you to select the previous/next chord on the chord track for editing.

Add Chord

Adds a new unassigned chord event on the chord track.

Note

This only works if the last chord event on the chord track is selected.

Suggestions list

Displays suggestions for the next chord. Click a chord suggestion to select it.

Reference
Note

This is only available if you select an unassigned chord in between 2 assigned chords.

Select Previous Chord to get suggestions for the next chord, based on the previous chord.

Select Previous & Next Chord to get suggestions for chords in between 2 assigned chords, based on the previous and the following chord.

Algorithm

Select Cadence to build up a chord progression based on cadences. Select Common Notes to build up a progression by specifying how many common notes you want the chords to share. The suggested chords and the colors change accordingly.

Cadence Type

Allows you to select a cadence type for the suggestions. As a result, only the chords with specific harmonic functions are suggested. The suggested chords and the colors change accordingly.

Note

These options are only available if you select Cadence as the Algorithm.