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
The MIDI channel strips
The MIDI channel strips allow you to control volume and
pan in your MIDI instrument (provided that they are set up to
receive the corresponding MIDI messages). The settings
here are also available in the Inspector for MIDI tracks.
The common panel
The common panel appears to the left in the mixer windows
and contains settings for changing the look and behavior of
the mixer, as well as global settings for all channels.
Level fader
(MIDI volume)
Level (velocity) meter
Channel automation
controls
Pan control
Monitor and Record
Enable buttons
MIDI output pop-up
MIDI input pop-up
Edit button
Mute and Solo
Insert/Send indicators
and Bypass buttons
Input Transformer
button
MIDI channel pop-up
This opens the
control panel for
a connected VST
Instrument
Channel Narrow/
Wide button
Can Hide State
Global automation
Read/Write buttons
Store/Remove View set but-
tons (+/-) and Select View
set pop-up, see “Channel
view sets” on page 125.
These indicator but-
tons select what chan-
nel types are shown/
hidden in the mixer.
The View options buttons
determine what to display
in the extended panels of
channel strips. Only visible
in extended mixer mode.
Command Target settings,
see “About the Command
Target” on page 125.
Toggles “All Wide”
(left arrows) or “All
Narrow” channel
strips in the mixer.
Opens the VST Con-
nections window, see
“The VST Connections
window” on page 15.
Shows/hides the
Routing panel
Buttons for showing/
hiding the extended
panel
Resets the settings
to default (for all or
selected channels).
Channel settings copy/
paste, see “Copying
settings between audio
channels” on page 137.
“Can Hide” settings, see
“Showing/hiding individual
channels (the “Can Hide”
setting)” on page 124.
Global Mute, Solo
and Listen buttons