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
308
Track Presets
3. Select a track or VST preset from the list.
If the list is very long and you cannot find the needed preset easily, you
can click Categories in order to expand the view. It now shows a custom-
izable filter section that is similar to the one in the MediaBay, see “Per-
forming a Category search” on page 294.
At this point you can preview selected presets, see “Pre-
viewing track or VST presets before applying” on page 309.
4. Click outside the browser to apply the selected preset
or click the Reset button below the list to return to the un-
changed track.
Ö Once the track preset is applied, you cannot undo the
changes!
In the Inspector, you can see which preset was applied
last.
Applying a multi track preset
To be able to apply a multi track preset, certain require-
ments have to be met. Proceed as follows:
1. Select several tracks in your project.
The selected tracks have to be of the same type, number and sequence
as the tracks in the track preset.
2. Right-click the track to open the context menu and se-
lect “Apply Track Preset”.
The Presets browser opens. Only multi track presets corresponding to
the selection of tracks in the project will be shown.
3. Select a multi track preset from the list.
4. Click outside the browser to apply the selected preset
or click the Reset button below the list to return to the un-
changed track.
Ö Once the track preset is applied, you cannot undo the
changes!
Reloading track or VST presets
To revert to the default settings of the applied preset, click
the “Reload Track Preset” button.
Applying another track or VST preset
To apply another track or VST preset, open the Presets
browser as described above and select another preset.
Removing a track or VST preset from a track
It is not possible to remove an applied preset from a track
and return to the previous state. If you are unsatisfied with
the track settings, you can either edit the settings manually
or apply another preset.
Extracting sound from an instrument track or
VST preset
For instrument tracks, you can extract the “sound” of an
instrument track preset or VST preset, that means the VST
Instrument and its settings.
Proceed as follows:
1. Select the instrument track to which you want to apply
a sound.
2. Click the VST Sound button below the Output Rout-
ing field in the Inspector.
The Presets browser opens, showing a list of all available
presets.