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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Automation
Background
Cubase provides very comprehensive automation fea-
tures. Virtually every mixer and effect parameter can be
automated.
There are two main methods you can use to automate pa-
rameter settings:
• By manually drawing curves on automation subtracks in
the Project window.
See “Editing automation events” on page 212.
• By using the Write/Read buttons and adjusting para-
meters in the mixer.
See “Using Write/Read automation” on page 209.
The methods are not different in terms of how the automa-
tion data is applied – they only differ in the way the auto-
mation events are created; manually drawing them or
recording them. Any applied automation data will be re-
flected in both the mixer (a fader will move for example)
and in a corresponding automation track curve (although
this may be hidden).
About automation subtracks
Audio tracks, group channel tracks and FX channel tracks
all have automation subtracks. These allow you to view
and edit the automation of all mixer settings for the track,
including settings for the track’s insert effects. There is
one automation subtrack for each parameter, and sub-
tracks can be shown or hidden in any combination.
Similarly, MIDI tracks have automation subtracks for mixer
settings, track parameters and (if used) for send and insert
effect settings.
VST Instruments have special automation tracks that ap-
pear in the Project window when you add a VST Instrument.
There is one automation track for the plug-in parameters,
and one track for each mixer channel used by the instru-
ment. These tracks all have automation subtracks, giving
you access to all parameters and mixer settings.
Instrument tracks, as a combination of a MIDI track and a
VST Instrument, have automation tracks that provide auto-
mation parameters for the VST Instrument itself, for the
VST Instrument channel and the respective MIDI automa-
tion parameters.
Finally, for ReWire channels and input/output channels,
automation tracks are automatically added as soon as you
activate automation (with the Write button) in the corre-
sponding mixer channel strip or in the Channel Settings
window. These automation tracks have subtracks for all
parameters as well.