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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Synchronization
Setting Up
1. Connect the desired MIDI Outputs from Cubase to the
device(s) that you plan to synchronize.
2. Open the Project Synchronization Setup dialog from
the Transport menu.
3. Activate the sync outputs by using the corresponding
checkboxes.
You can output any combination of MIDI Timecode and MIDI Clock to
any combination of outputs (however, you probably don’t want to send
MTC and MIDI Clock to the same output).
4. Set the other device(s) to their “external synchroniza-
tion” mode (or some other mode with a similar name) and
activate playback on them if necessary.
5. Activate playback in Cubase, and the other device(s)
will follow.
MIDI Timecode
In this mode, Cubase is the slave and the timecode is sent
by the MIDI Timecode Source specified in the correspond-
ing section.
Setting up Cubase for external sync to timecode
1. In the Project Synchronization dialog, set Timecode
Source to MIDI Timecode.
2. Use the pop-up menu in the MIDI Timecode Source
section to select an input for the timecode.
3. Close the Project Synchronization Setup dialog and
open the Project Setup dialog from the Project menu.
4. Use the Start value to set which frame on the external
device (e.g. a video tape) should correspond to the begin-
ning of the project.
!
Some MIDI interfaces will automatically send MIDI
Clock to all MIDI outputs, regardless of the MIDI
Clock Port selection in Cubase. If this is the case,
you should only select one MIDI Clock Port (consult
the documentation of the MIDI Interface if in doubt).
Timecode Source settings
MMC Master settings
MMC Slave settings
Sync to timecode activated
Outputs for
MIDI Clock
Outputs for MIDI
Timecode
Input port for MIDI
Timecode
Input and Output for
Master MIDI Machine
Control messages
Set this to the time-
code position
where you want the
project to start.