GRIDVISTA

Visual Sequencer Template Automator

FOR CUBASE/NUENDO AND METAGRID PRO

Available in the MetaGrid Pro app

Organize Your Tracks In Minutes

Use GridVista to manage what is visible on your screen at any moment.

Large orchestral templates can have hundreds of tracks. Lots of options are crucial, but doomscrolling through all of them slows everything down. GridVista organizes your template structure and enables you to show only the instruments relevant to what you're working on right now.

Switch between instrument sections instantly. Enable, Solo, Mute, and Record Enable the tracks you see in front of you with macro buttons. Show your favorite sketch piano when you need it. Keep your creative flow uninterrupted while having immediate access to any instrument in your template, or just the ones you want.

If you are a mix engineer, imagine every signal chain you love, pre-set and waiting for you to enable it. Set up your backside buss or multichannel mix and recall only what you need.

Available for purchase in the MetaGrid Pro app.

System requirements:
macOS 14 or higher, macOS 26.4 or higher recommended
macOS 27 Golden Gate is not tested or supported at this time.
MetaGrid Pro 1.7.5 / Metaserver 6.1.4
Cubase/Nuendo 14.x+
(Cubase/Nuendo version 15.0.30+ is HIGHLY recommended for some features.)
GridVista was designed to generate grids for 12.9" iPads.

Teaser

Walkthrough Part 1

Walkthrough Part 2

Your Templates, Your Way

GridVista transforms how you interact with your composer templates.

Any Size Template

Whether you have 20 tracks or 2,000, GridVista handles templates of any size. If you use folder tracks, GridVista preserves the hierarchy so you can find what you need, but you are not bound to that structure.

Wizard-Guided Design

Simple steps with contextual guidance to get you set up and running at top speed. Drag tracks to groups, drag groups to categories, arrange your grid and add a theme, and export.

Custom MetaGrid Pro Control Surface

GridVista generates a custom control surface for MetaGrid Pro and automatically sends it to your iPad. Keep it handy in your sidebar for instant visibility changes.

Rename Your Template Tracks

After organizing your template into visibility groups, you have the option of renaming the tracks in a copy of your sequence template automatically, using the included Lio software and custom scripting.

GridVista Features

Reading the project

  • Opens Cubase/Nuendo project files (.cpr, both the Cubase and Nuendo formats) and Standard MIDI files as a fallback.
  • Reads track types: audio, instrument, MIDI, group, FX, VCA, folders. Mixer-only channels are left out.
  • Folder structure to any depth. Same-named tracks in different folders are kept apart.

Grouping

  • Auto-Analyze: abbreviation-based groups; automatic subgrouping by instrument, grouping of instruments into family groups, and optional “autogroups” for loose tracks.
  • Infrastructure groups: Main Piano, Live Audio, Loops, Production Audio, Temp Tracks, Reverb Returns, Routing Grps/VCA’s, Unsorted Audio.
  • Manual editing: drag/drop with Move/Copy (option-drag copies), absorbing one group into another, New Group from Selection, Make Individual Groups, Consolidate, Remove from Group.
  • The search editor: AND/OR/NOT expressions, Simplify Search, custom button text.
  • Also: Mark Unused / Show Hidden, Exclusions, Remember/Recall Group Patterns, Custom Sub-Groups (compound rules), Reassign Abbreviation (with New Abbreviation).

Abbreviations and instruments

  • Abbreviation lists: Starter (80) and Comprehensive (525). Abbreviation Manager.
  • CSV import of user Abbreviation lists with Replace All.
  • Instrument database: a huge list of instruments including alternate names, editable (add new ones, change, hide or restore factory entries).

Categorizing

  • Auto-categorize into instrument categories, plus an “Audio Channel Presets” category.
  • Manual changes: drag between categories; per-category colors, customizable.

Grid design

  • Layout: an 8×11 grid with a SHIFT page, with the far right column reserved for infrastructure and scenes.
  • Themes: MetaGrid-style themes plus Dark/Light/B&W/Paper/Logic families; saved and factory Themes; .mpalette import; Group Shading; Font modes; Typeface overrides (size, weight, width, italic); Button Appearance controls.
  • Device-true preview: MetaGrid’s real geometry and text wrapping.
  • Moving buttons: drag reordering with multi-select; Move to Other Layer.

Scenes

  • 22 scene slots across the main and SHIFT pages, edited in the Visibility Groups list.
  • Import Scenes from another setup.

Export

  • Export Wizard goes through the process step by step.
  • Cubase presets (PLPs): VIS/TOP/MAC.
  • The Visibility MIDI Remote script. Accommodates multiple projects.
  • The MetaGrid grid sent straight to the iPad via MetaServer and/or saved locally.
  • iCloud/Dropbox detection.
  • Export Grid Only without the PLP’s or MIDI Remotes for preview or cosmetic changes.
  • Checks: post-export verification.

Track Renamer

  • Renames tracks in the Cubase/Nuendo project file.

Copyist Mode

  • A score-output workflow: use library abbreviations while composing; when done, automatically simplify project track names for score printout.

Setups

  • Save, Save As, Load/Manage Setups (including recovering deleted setups), which include all settings, groupings, categorizings, and grid design parameters; and auto-save on quit and before opening another file.
  • Setup restoration for files upon opening them, which will apply existing settings to any new tracks added.

Other features

  • Make new project grids in minutes: After the first grid, setting track groups is very quick.
  • Update checker: at launch, daily, and via Check for Updates…, with Download Again.
  • Conveniences: keyboard navigation, 20-level undo, hierarchy export as HTML.