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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MIDI realtime parameters and effects
Other Inspector sections
Apart from the basic track settings (see above), the MIDI
Modifiers (see “MIDI Modifiers” on page 319) and the ef-
fect sections (see “MIDI effects” on page 321), the Inspec-
tor for a MIDI track also contains the following sections:
The MIDI Fader section
This contains a single channel strip, allowing you to set
volume, pan, mute/solo and other parameters for the track,
and a panel view of the active sends/inserts. This is a “mir-
ror” of the track’s channel strip in the Cubase mixer – see
“The MIDI channel strips” on page 127.
The Notepad section
This is a standard notepad, allowing you to enter notes
and comments about the track. Each track has its own
notepad in the Inspector.
VST Instrument section
If the MIDI track is routed to a VST Instrument, a new sub-
panel will appear at the bottom of the Inspector, labeled
with the name of the VST instrument. Clicking this section
shows a duplicate of the Inspector settings for the VST In-
strument channel. This makes it easy to adjust the channel
settings for the VST Instrument while you are editing the
MIDI track.
• If the VST Instrument has multiple outputs (and thus
several mixer channels), there will be a setting called
“Output” at the top of the VST Instrument section.
New sub-panels will also be added in the following cases:
• When a MIDI track is routed to an external instrument or effect
that has an associated MIDI Device. In this case, the new sub-
panel will get the name of the device.
• When a MIDI track is routed to an effect plug-in that also re-
ceives audio data, i.e. that is used as an insert effect for an au-
dio track (e.g. MIDI Gate), a sub-panel for this audio track
appears in the MIDI track inspector.
• If a MIDI track is routed to a plug-in assigned to a FX Channel
track, a corresponding FX sub-panel is added to the Inspector.
Ö For an easy way to combine MIDI and VST instruments,
check out instrument tracks (see “VST Instruments and In-
strument tracks” on page 182).
User Panel section (Cubase only)
This allows you to display MIDI device panels, which are
control panels for external hardware. This is described in
the separate PDF document “MIDI Devices”.
Quick Controls section
This allows you to configure quick controls, e.g. to use re-
mote devices. See the chapter “Track Quick Controls” on
page 311.