How To Use Track Versions in Cubase

About me:

My name is Anthony Chisnall. I'm a musician & songwriter.

My channel is these things:

1. A place to share my music - both songs and instrumental pieces. Much of the music I write features in...
2. Tutorial videos about music composition and production
3. An outlet for me to discuss all things musical - including technical break-downs of software and tools that I use, as well as more wide-ranging discussions of topics that interest me.

I play the guitar (electric, acoustic, and bass), and record all of my own synth-based sounds myself too, but I can't sing very well (huge understatement!), and so my wife, Pauline, who has a lovely singing voice, has come to my rescue. You'll hear her on all of my songs.

All of my music is written in Steinberg's Cubase (currently Cubase 12).

I try very hard to make my videos PRACTICAL and no-nonsense - if I don't use a feature, I'm not going to waste your time trying to sound like an expert on it! This is the stuff I use day-to-day, so I think that's also what you'd like to hear me talking about.

Thanks to:

[davidseymour]

Best Cubase videos on YT by a mile (well…honourable mention to Dom!) - I have spent a lifetime in teaching and I can tell you that you are a natural and gifted teacher. Perfectly judged length and pacing. Please keep on going with these excellent creations.

[davidwilliams]

Another useful video that will save me a lot of time and effort when I'm at the 'fiddling about' stage of what I loosely refer to as my 'process'.😊 Thanks again!

[mrratskins]

It was a nice surprise to see the "create lanes from versions" at the end. Very important to make it all the way through the video to find that Easter egg.

[charleshoward]

Great video, interesting ideas, thanks.

[jondellar]

Thank you! Really helpful, as always.
I do like your musical style by the way! 🙂

[joostjanssens]

Great video Anthony! Lately you have been producting a lot of very practical but really useful videos about more obscure features, and it's fantastic!

Pro tip for film/video game composers: did you know that you can actually create multiple cues inside one Cubase project using this? The tempo track, video track and everything else all have Track Versions! It's a really deep feature almost no one knows about just how useful it is! You can even switch cues with hotkeys, changing everything at once. Nifty huh?

[ErixSamson]

interesting, I didn't know that we could link versions like that.

[danserogermusic]

QUESTION: at 17m25, if you clicked on B (id16) or A (id18), would the part (version B, now as a lane) that you moved horizontally to bars 13 to 20 disappear? It will return in the "memory" of the versions "depot"? Sorry for the non exact terminology, I think/hope will understand my question... (would have loved to see the result at this time!). Nice good presentation as always, and nice meditative musical piece!

[ErixSamson]

I'm using versions more and more, but I dislike that the version is not diplayed in the MIDI Editor, you never know which version you are editing.