How do quickly locate Cubase to a particular spot in the Score (Sheet Music) ?

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MariusPerron

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When the conductor says, “Go to measure 55, the second time through...” I would like a way to get there quickly.

If he says “Go to measure 55” – that’s easy. I just go to bar 55 in Cubase.

But if there is a repeat sign in the music at the end of bar 100, and it says to go back to bar 10 to start the repeat, my bar 101 will be “measure 10, the second time through” in the sheet music.

I have Cubase set up in bars and beats. And at the correct tempo (that’s the easy part).

I could print the score and get a pencil and write in new measure numbers that correspond to the measure numbers in Cubase… but that’s a lot of trouble. Is there an easier way?
 
Im not sure i get the problem... You could add a marker track and put the markers where you want them to be with the names you want them to have. Then all you'd have to do is click the marker you're looking for.
 
How can I put a marker ahead of time, when I have no idea where the conductor is going to want to go? And if there are 12 songs in the time line, and each song has several repeat areas in the score, I would have over 100 markers!

After talking to some of my buddies in Nashville, I discovered that the answer is easy!

For the recording, we will be using a preliminary version of the score that has no repeats at all!
Later, There will be a revised score to include repeats, first endings, second endings, etc
 
There isn't a way to do this in cubase that matches printed music with conventional repeats and codas to bar numbers. Cubase has never had a bar 50, second time through facility. Sibelius follows score standards better but is of course rubbish at sequencing. Adding extra songs to a single timeline also fails because bar one in song two will be Cubase bar 230 or something else less helpful. Where I've had to do this, Ive actually used a spreadsheet with one column for sheet music bars and another for cubase bars so when the conductor yells the instruction, you can get there too - even worse when they have a score marked with letter names too - "OK guys, go from 4 bars after D, 2,3,4" Excel allows me to add a column for letters 2.

Sequencers never seem to have this feature - seems quite obvious, but when people are working from the printed music in the studio, probably the singers, matching the points is a pretty common request. In Cubase, we do all the repeats and codas in full don't we. Odd that Cubase never developed nesting - where you could drop one sequence into another, and then do repeats that way. Intro, verse, verse, chorus, verse, bridge, verse, layout would be quite easy to rearrange then - I guess not enough people ever want to work that way, yet they allow you to use marker tracks and chop up sections and colour code them?
 
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