Hi everyone !
Had a question about cubase’s terrible Expression Maps. I’m trying to make a template where I would really need to use expression maps, however as you may know it is insanely painful to setup (even if there is this wonderful website that helps quite a lot https://expressionmaps.soundsinabox.de).
What I want to do is making a template project with everything setup correctly (including expression maps) and then importing tracks i need from this template to projects I’m working on, the point of this being that I may not always need a full orchestra (for example).
HOWEVER… Cubase does not import expression maps when importing tracks from a project to another, which means I have to previously import all my expression maps in the new project before importing any VST from my template. The new issue is that you can import an expression map only one by one which drives me absolutely mad, like am I supposed to import ALL my expression maps everytime I create a project ?? This sounds insane
My questions are :
-Am I doing something wrong ?
-Have you got any advice ?
-Are Steinberg planning to improve expression maps at some point or are they waiting for cubase 15 to make it better and pretend they have great ideas
Thank you very much !
Not sure about this, will check. But meanwhile, as an alternative. Make your template as big as you want with everything setup and routed etc. Then simply disable all the tracks.
Save it as a “Template” and use that to start new projects.
The template loads very quickly because everything is disabled, and you can then enable as you wish.
This is what most of us do now tbh. Have a look here, if you need more info (not my video):
https://youtu.be/UxIfu8bYipo