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
What can be automated?
Mixing in Cubase can be completely automated. The fol-
lowing parameter settings can be recorded automatically
– or manually drawn in – on automation subtracks:
For each audio or group track and ReWire channel:
•Volume
•Mute
• Linked Panner state (controlled with the button “Link Send
Routing Panners to Channel Panner” on the Control Strip
section of the Channel settings window).
• Pan (Depending on the channel configuration, you can make
settings for the Standard Panner or the Surround Panner.)
• 8 x insert effect parameters and bypass (if inserts are used)
• 8 x effect send settings (on/off, level, pan)
• Settings for 4 EQ modules (Master Bypass, on/off, Type,
Gain, Freq., Quality)
For each FX channel track and input/output bus:
•Volume
•Mute
• Linked Panner state (controlled with the button “Link Send
Routing Panners to Channel Panner” on the Control Strip
section of the Channel settings window).
• Pan (Depending on the channel configuration, you can make
settings for the Standard Panner or the Surround Panner.)
• 8 x insert effect parameters and bypass (if inserts are used)
• Settings for 4 EQ modules (Master Bypass, on/off, Type,
Gain, Freq., Quality)
For each VST Instrument:
• VST Instrument plug-in parameters and program selection
plus (for each mixer channel/separate output used by the
instrument):
•Volume
•Mute
• Linked Panner state (controlled with the button “Link Send
Routing Panners to Channel Panner” on the Control Strip
section of the Channel settings window).
• Pan (Depending on the channel configuration, you can make
settings for the Standard Panner or the Surround Panner.)
• 8 x insert effect parameters and bypass (if inserts are used)
• 8 x effect send settings (on/off, level, pan)
• Settings for 4 EQ modules (Master Bypass, on/off, Type,
Gain, Freq., Quality)
For each MIDI track:
•Volume
•Pan
•Mute
• MIDI Modifiers on/off switch
•Transpose
•Vel. shift
• Random 1-2 min/max/target
• Range 1-2 min/max/target
• 4 x insert effect on/off switches
• 4 x send effect on/off switches
• 4 x MIDI insert effect parameters (if used)
• 4 x MIDI send effect parameters (if used)
For each Instrument track:
As Instrument tracks are a combination of a MIDI track, an
instrument and an Instrument Return channel in the Mixer,
the automation subtracks for instrument tracks feature all
parameters that are available for VST instruments plus the
parameters for MIDI tracks (see the respective sections
above) except MIDI Volume, Pan and Mute, because the
parameters Volume Pan and Mute are controlled directly
via the Instrument Return channel in the Mixer.