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, do one of the following:

  • Activate Show/Hide Chord Assistant Window on the chord pads zone toolbar, and select List.

  • Activate Show/Hide Editor/Assistant on the chord pads zone toolbar, and select List.

Suggestions list

Displays suggestions for the next chord.

  • Click a chord suggestion to audition it.

  • Drag a suggestion to a chord pad to assign the chord to the chord pad.

  • Double-click a chord suggestion to assign the chord to the first free chord pad.

Note

The suggestions are colored according to their musical usefulness. Green indicates that this suggestion is more common, orange or red are musically more adventurous or do not fit at all.

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.