User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Part I: Getting into the details
- About this manual
- VST Connections: Setting up input and output busses
- The Project window
- Playback and the Transport panel
- Recording
- Fades, crossfades and envelopes
- The Arranger track
- Folder tracks
- Using markers
- The Transpose functions
- The mixer
- Control Room (Cubase only)
- Audio effects
- VST Instruments and Instrument tracks
- Introduction
- VST Instrument channels vs. instrument tracks
- VST Instrument channels
- Instrument tracks
- Comparison
- Automation considerations
- What do I need? Instrument channel or Instrument track?
- Instrument Freeze
- VST instruments and processor load
- Using presets for VSTi configuration
- About latency
- External instruments (Cubase only)
- Surround sound (Cubase only)
- Audio processing and functions
- The Sample Editor
- The Audio Part Editor
- The Pool
- VST Sound
- The MediaBay
- Track Presets
- Track Quick Controls
- Automation
- MIDI realtime parameters and effects
- MIDI processing and quantizing
- The MIDI editors
- The Logical Editor, Transformer and Input Transformer
- The Project Logical Editor
- Working with System Exclusive messages
- Working with the Tempo track
- The Project Browser
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- Video
- ReWire
- File handling
- Customizing
- Key commands
- Part II: Score layout and printing
- How the Score Editor works
- The basics
- About this chapter
- Preparations
- Opening the Score Editor
- The project cursor
- Page Mode
- Changing the Zoom factor
- The active staff
- Making page setup settings
- Designing your work space
- About the Score Editor context menus
- About dialogs in the Score Editor
- Setting key, clef and time signature
- Transposing instruments
- Working order
- Force update
- Transcribing MIDI recordings
- About this chapter
- About transcription
- Getting the parts ready
- Strategies: Preparing parts for score printout
- Staff settings
- The Main tab
- The Options tab
- The Polyphonic tab
- The Tablature tab
- Situations which require additional techniques
- Inserting display quantize changes
- Strategies: Adding display quantize changes
- The Explode function
- Using “Scores Notes To MIDI”
- Entering and editing notes
- About this chapter
- Score settings
- Note values and positions
- Adding and editing notes
- Selecting notes
- Moving notes
- Duplicating notes
- Cut, copy and paste
- Editing pitches of individual notes
- Changing the length of notes
- Splitting a note in two
- Working with the Display Quantize tool
- Split (piano) staves
- Strategies: Multiple staves
- Inserting and editing clefs, keys or time signatures
- Deleting notes
- Staff settings
- Polyphonic voicing
- About this chapter
- Background: Polyphonic voicing
- Setting up the voices
- Strategies: How many voices do I need?
- Entering notes into voices
- Checking which voice a note belongs to
- Moving notes between voices
- Handling rests
- Voices and display quantize
- Creating crossed voicings
- Automatic polyphonic voicing - Merge All Staves
- Converting voices to tracks - Extract Voices
- Additional note and rest formatting
- Working with symbols
- Working with chords
- Working with text
- Working with layouts
- Working with MusicXML
- Designing your score: additional techniques
- Scoring for drums
- Creating tablature
- The score and MIDI playback
- Printing and exporting pages
- Frequently asked questions
- Tips and Tricks
- Index
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The mixer
Configuring the mixer
As mentioned earlier, the mixer windows can be config-
ured in various ways to suit your needs and to save screen
space. Here follows a run through of the various view op-
tions (the following descriptions assume that you have an
active project containing some tracks):
Normal vs. Extended channel strips
You have the option of selecting normal or extended chan-
nel strips and whether to show the input and output set-
tings at the top of the channel strips. Proceed as follows:
1. Open any of the mixer windows.
The leftmost strip is called the common panel and is always shown in the
mixer. It contains various global settings and options relating to the mixer.
For further information, see “The common panel” on page 127.
2. Click on the arrow button on the common panel
(“Show Extended Mixer”) or right-click in the Mixer to
open the Mixer context menu and select “Show Extended
View” from the Window submenu.
You can also use a key command for this. See the chapter “Key com-
mands” on page 475.
3. You can show or hide the Routing panel of the chan-
nel strips by clicking on the respective arrow button
(“Show Routing”) or by selecting “Show Routing View”
from the Window submenu on the Mixer context menu.
The fader panel is always shown.
The fader panel shows the basic controls – faders, pan
controls and an associated vertical row of buttons. The ex-
tended panel can be set to show EQ, effect sends, insert
effects, etc. The input/output settings panel contains input
and output routing pop-up menus (where applicable),
along with input phase switches and input gain controls.
Selecting what to display in the extended
channel strips
You can select what to display in the extended channel
strip either globally from the common panel or individually
from each channel strip.
The available options vary depending on the type of chan-
nel.
• For a description of the options for audio channels, see “Op-
tions for the extended audio channel strip” on page 132.
• For a description of the options for MIDI channel, see “Selecting
what to show in the extended MIDI channel strip” on page 139 .
…and via the Mixer context menu.
Opening the Extended Mixer via the Mixer Common panel…
A basic channel strip with no
extended options.
A fully extended channel strip
with the input/output routing
section at the top.