Group Parts on a Group Track Groups
Parts that belong to Groups The Group List
Defining a Group is a way to make Cubase VST look at several Parts as one entity. This allows you to handle a set of Parts as one section, making it easier for you to experiment with the structure of your song. To play back Groups, you need to place them as Group Parts on a special Track called a Group Track. Groups can be used in many ways:
• Group all the brass parts in a chorus (trumpet, sax, trombone...) so that they can be handled as a section of the orchestra and easily be repeated in every chorus.As you understand from the examples above, the Groups are global for the whole Song. A Group created in one Arrange window can easily be played back in another. All in all you can have 64 groups, which are saved with the Song.
P A Part isn't muted or deleted when it is used in a Group. Parts can both be used as members of one or several Groups and as regular Parts at the same time. Therefore, you might have to Mute the Tracks with the Parts that make up the Group. If you don’t and both the Group and the regular Parts are positioned at the same positions, you will get double notes that might give you an increase in volume, reduced polyphony or unwanted flanger effects.
P Parts that have been used as components in a Group, can be moved around without affecting what the Group plays. However, if you change the contents of the Parts, this will be reflected in the Groups.