• It is easy to create a large number of Events from the MIDI Mixer. Cubase VST can handle the output, but MIDI may not be able to. System Exclusive messages are long MIDI messages, and if you only use one MIDI Output you might run into MIDI problems. If something can be achieved with a Static mix, this is preferable to a Dynamic recording.
• If you don’t want a true “fade”, but rather a direct change in value, you should click somewhere on a fader to make the handle jump there (instead of dragging the handle there). This creates fewer Events.
• Use the MIDI Mixer’s Quantize value to make sure that no more Events are recorded than you actually need.
• Notes always have timing priority over other Events, so for example a volume change should be put slightly before the note, not on the same tick.
• If you have System Exclusive messages in a Snapshot or static mix, record them slightly early, since many synthesizers need some time to process System Exclusive data.
• If you have made a large Snapshot or static recording that sets up all your synthesizers at the beginning of a Song (remember that you can have up to 128 Objects!) record it in a one bar countdown, to avoid MIDI hiccups at the first downbeat of the Song.