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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Table of Contents
10 Part I: Getting into the details
11 About this manual
12 Welcome!
13 VST Connections: Setting up input and
output busses
14 About this chapter
14 Setting up busses
17 Using the busses
20 Setting up Groups and FX channels
20 About monitoring
20 External instruments/effects (Cubase only)
25 The Project window
26 Background
28 Window Overview
35 Operations
56 Options
59 Playback and the Transport panel
60 Background
61 Operations
63 Options and Settings
65 Recording
66 Background
66 Basic recording methods
68 Audio recording specifics
79 MIDI recording specifics
84 Options and Settings
86 Recovery of audio recordings after system failure
87 Fades, crossfades and envelopes
88 Creating fades
90 The Fade dialogs
91 Creating crossfades
92 The Crossfade dialog
93 Auto Fades and Crossfades
94 Event Envelopes
95 The Arranger track
96 Introduction
96 Setting up the Arranger track
97 Working with arranger events
99 Flattening the Arranger chain
100 Live Mode
101 Arranging your music to video
102 Folder tracks
103 About folder tracks
103 Handling folder tracks
104 Working with folder parts
106 Using markers
107 About markers
107 The Marker window
108 Using the Marker track
110 Marker key commands
110 Editing markers in the Project Browser
111 The Transpose functions
112 Introduction
112 Transposing your music
115 Other functions
118 The mixer
119 About this chapter
120 Overview
122 Configuring the mixer
126 The audio-related channel strips
127 The MIDI channel strips
127 The common panel
128 The input and output channels
128 Basic mixing procedures
132 Audio specific procedures
139 MIDI specific procedures
140 Utilities
143 VST Mixer Diagrams
146 Control Room (Cubase only)
147 Background
148 Configuring the Control Room
151 The Control Room Overview
151 The Control Room Mixer
153 Control Room operations
158 Studios and Studio Sends
161 Direct Monitoring and latency