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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Control Room (Cubase only)
22. Channel Labels
These labels reflect the names created in the VST Connections window.
23. Talkback Level
This pop-up fader controls the amount of Talkback signal fed to the output
of each Studio.
24. Talkback Enable
In order for Talkback signals to be routed to a Studio, this button must be
lit. Clicking on it turns it on or off. When Talkback Enable is deactivated,
the Talkback DIM setting has no effect on this output.
25. Metronome Mix
These level and pan controls determine how the Metronome will be
heard in each channel. These controls are independent for each channel.
26. Metronome Enable
This determines whether click signals are sent to each channel. When lit,
click signals will be heard in that output.
27. Channel Level Control
This is the main volume for each Control Room output. These faders do not
affect recording input levels or the Main Mix level for exporting mixdowns.
28. External input switching
There are six available external inputs. These buttons determine which
external input is currently being used. The names for each external input
are displayed here as they were created in the VST Connections.
29. Signal Presence Indicators
In the Preferences dialog, there is the option to display these Signal
Presence Indicators as a substitute for the full size meters.
The Monitor controls in the Control Room Mixer
30. Individual Speaker Solos
Each speaker icon is a solo button for that channel. [Shift]-clicking a
speaker will solo all the speakers in that row (front or rear). [Ctrl]/[Com-
mand]-clicking on a speaker that is already soloed will mute that speaker
and solo all other channels.
31. LFE Solo
The plus icon solos the LFE channel.
32. Solo Rear Channels
This solos all rear channels.
33. Listen to Rear Channels on Front Monitors
This button solos the rear channels and routes them to the front speak-
ers.
34. Listen to Solo Channels on Center Monitor
When this button is enabled, all speakers that are soloed will be heard in
the center channel if there is one in the configuration. If not (as with stereo)
the soloed channel will be heard equally in both left and right speakers.
35. Edit Down-Mix
Clicking on this tab opens the MixConvert plug-in used to down-mix mul-
tichannel signals for monitoring.
36. Down-Mix Labels
This area displays the names of the four down-mix presets. You may click
on a name to change it. A “?” appears when there is no preset defined
for that down-mix.
37. Monitor Labels
This area displays the names of the four possible Monitors. The names
are created in the VST Connections when you define a Monitor channel.
38. Monitor Selection
These buttons select the current Monitor set. Each Monitor has its own
settings including down-mix preset, solo enables, inserts, Input Gain and
Input Phase. These settings are automatically recalled when a Monitor is
selected.
39. Down-Mix Preset Selection
These buttons select the down-mix preset for the current Monitor.
40. Speaker Solo Defeat
This button defeats all speaker solos, resetting them for normal playback.
41. Solo Front Channels
This button solos all front speakers.
42. Solo Left and Right Channels
This button solos the left and right channels.
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