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The Project window
Editing Transpose and Velocity for MIDI parts
When one or several MIDI parts are selected, the info line
contains Transpose and Velocity fields.
• Adjusting the Transpose field transposes the selected
parts in semitone steps.
Note that this transposition doesn’t change the actual notes in the part –
it’s just a “play parameter”, affecting the notes on playback. The transpo-
sition you specify for a part on the info line is added to the transposition
set for the whole track. For more information on transposing, see the
chapter “The Transpose functions” on page 111.
• Adjusting the Velocity field shifts the velocity for the se-
lected parts – the value you specify is added to the veloci-
ties of the notes in the parts.
Again, this velocity shift only affects the notes on playback, and again,
the value you specify is added to the Vel.Shift. value set for the whole
MIDI track in the Inspector.
Getting on-the-fly info with the Arrow tool
If the option “Select Tool: Show Extra Info” is activated in
the Preferences (Editing–Tools page), a tool tip will be
shown for the Arrow tool, displaying information depend-
ing on where you point it. For example, in the Project win-
dow event display, the tool will show the current pointer
position and the name of the track and event you’re point-
ing at.
The ruler
The ruler at the top of the event display shows the time-
line. Initially, the Project window ruler uses the display for-
mat specified in the Project Setup dialog (see “The
Project Setup dialog” on page 35), as do all other rulers
and position displays in the project. However, you can se-
lect an independent display format for the ruler by clicking
the arrow button to the right of it and selecting an option
from the pop-up menu that appears (you can also bring up
this pop-up menu by right-clicking anywhere in the ruler).
• The selection you make here affects the ruler, the info
line and tool tip position values (which appear when you
drag an event in the Project window).
You can also select independent formats for other rulers and position
displays.
• To set the display format globally (for all windows), use
the primary display format pop-up on the Transport panel,
or hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] and select a display for-
mat in any ruler.
• If you use the “Timecode” or “User” options and the op-
tion “Show Timecode Subframes” is activated in the Pref-
erences (Transport page), the frames will also display
subframes.
There are 80 subframes per frame.
Using multiple rulers – ruler tracks (Cubase only)
As described above, the Cubase Project window contains
a main ruler at the top of the event display, displaying the
timeline from left to right.
If needed, you can have several rulers in the Project win-
dow, by adding ruler tracks to the project. Each ruler track
contains an additional ruler.
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Audio events can also be transposed – see “Real-
time pitch-shifting of audio events” on page 262.
Option Positions and lengths displayed as
Bars+Beats Bars, beats, sixteenth notes and ticks. By default there
are 120 ticks per sixteenth note but you can adjust this
with the “MIDI Display Resolution” setting in the Prefer-
ences (MIDI page).
Seconds Hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds.
Timecode This format displays hours, minutes, seconds and frames.
The number of frames per second (fps) is set in the
Project Setup dialog (see “The Project Setup dialog” on
page 35). You can choose between 24, 25, 29.97 and
30 fps or 29.97 and 30 dfps (“drop frame”).
Samples Samples.
User Hours, minutes, seconds and frames, with a user defin-
able number of frames per second. You set the desired
number of fps in the Preferences (Transport page).
Time Linear When this is selected, the ruler will be linear relative to
time. This means that if there are tempo changes on the
Tempo track, the distance between the bars will vary in
Bars+Beats mode.
Bars+Beats
Linear
When this is selected, the ruler will be linear relative to
the meter position – bars and beats. This means that if
there are tempo changes on the Tempo track, there still
will be the same distance between bars in Bars+Beats
mode. If the ruler is set to a time-based mode, the dis-
tance between seconds will vary depending on the
tempo changes.
Option Positions and lengths displayed as