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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Audio effects
2. Click in the preset field at the top of the control panel.
This opens the preset browser.
• You can also open the Preset browser from the Inspec-
tor (Inserts tab) or the Channel Settings window.
3. Select the desired preset in the list.
4. Activate playback to audition the selected preset.
Simply step through the presets until you found the right sound. It may be
helpful to set up cycle playback of a section to make comparisons be-
tween different preset settings easier.
5. Double-click on the desired preset (or click outside
the Preset browser) to apply the preset.
• To return to the preset that was selected when you
opened the Preset browser, click the Reset button.
• You can also open the Preset browser by clicking the
VST Sound button to the right of the preset field an se-
lecting “Load Preset” from the Preset Management pop-
up menu.
• The preset handling for VST 2 plug-ins is slightly differ-
ent, see “About earlier VST effect presets” on page 178.
The Browser sections
The Preset browser contains the following sections:
• The “Search & Viewer” section (displayed by default)
lists the available presets for the selected effect.
• The Filter section (displayed when you click the Cate-
gories button) shows the available preset attributes for the
selected effect.
If no attributes have been specified for the effect presets, the columns
will be empty. If attributes have been assigned to a preset for this effect,
you can click on the attribute in the respective column (Category, Style
etc.), to filter out all presets that do not match the selected attribute(s).
• If you also activate the “Show Location” button, the
Browser & Filter section is displayed, allowing you to
specify the Presets folder that should be searched for
preset files.
Saving effect presets
You can save your edited effect settings as presets for
further use (e.g. in other projects):
1. Click the VST Sound button to open the Preset
Management pop-up menu.
2. Select “Save Preset…” from the pop-up menu.
This opens a dialog where you can save the current settings as a preset.
3. In the File name field in the lower part of the Save Pre-
set dialog, enter a name for the new preset.