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 MediaBay
Further options for Category searches
• The text field at the top serves as an additional name fil-
ter: you can enter a file name or part of a file name here.
This corresponds to a “Name: contains” Details search, which means
that the name of the searched file must contain the text you enter here.
See also “Cubase only: Performing a Details search” on page 293.
In addition to the filter defined by the tag columns, the name of the
searched file must contain “120”.
• You can change which tag is displayed at the top of
each tag column by clicking on the tag and selecting a dif-
ferent tag from the Filter tag list pop-up menu.
How to configure the Filter tag list is described in the section “Managing
the tag lists (Cubase only)” on page 297.
• To select a tag value, simply click on it. To deselect it,
click the value again.
Note that you can select more than one value in each tag column.
• Click the Reset button on the top right of the Filter sec-
tion to clear all settings in the tag columns.
This will also reset the tag list settings.
Previewing files in the Scope section
Below the Viewer you will find the Scope section. It allows
you to play back files selected in the Viewer section.
The elements visible in this section and their functions
depend on the type of media file selected in the Viewer.
Previewing audio files
The Scope section for an audio file.
• To preview an audio file, simply click the Start button.
• When Auto Play is activated, selecting a file in the
Viewer will automatically start playback.
• When “Play in Project context” is activated, the file will
be played back together with the current project, starting
at the current project cursor position.
Previewing MIDI files
The Scope section for a MIDI file.
• To preview a MIDI file (.mid), you first have to select an
output device in the Output pop-up.
The “Auto Play” and “Play in Project context” options work in the same
way as with audio files.
• Auto Play and “Play in Project context” work as for audio
files, see above.
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The Scope section does not play back video files or
project files. Also, it is not possible to preview audio
track presets in the MediaBay (see below).
Auto Play
Play in Project
context
Preview levelTransport controls
Output
Auto Play Play in Project
context
Transport controls