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
4. Open the Project Synchronization Setup dialog via the
Transport menu in Cubase.
5. In the Master Machine Control Device section, acti-
vate the “MC Master Active” checkbox.
6. Select the correct MMC Inputs and Outputs from the
respective pop-up menus.
7. Make sure that the MMC Device ID corresponds to
the ID of the controlled device.
If more that one machine is connected or if you do not know the Device
ID, this can be set to “All”, the “Broadcast” device ID.
8. Set the “Number of Audio Tracks” setting to the num-
ber of tracks on the external tape recorder (Cubase only).
9. Open the Preferences dialog from the File menu (on
the Mac, this is located on the Cubase menu), select the
MIDI Filter section and make sure Sysex is activated in the
Thru section.
This is necessary since MMC uses two-way communication (the tape re-
corder “replies” to the MMC messages it receives from Cubase). By fil-
tering out Sysex Thru, you ensure that these MMC System Exclusive
replies are not echoed back to the tape recorder.
10. Close the Preferences and open the Project Setup di-
alog from the Project menu.
11. As when synchronizing without using transport con-
trol, use the Start value to specify which frame on the tape
should correspond to the beginning of the project.
12. Close the Project Setup dialog.
How to proceed from here depends on whether you are
using Cubase or Cubase Studio:
Cubase:
13. Pull down the Devices menu and select MMC Master.
The MIDI Machine Control master transport panel appears.
It is now possible to control the external tape recorder in-
dependently or together with Cubase:
• If you activate the Online button on the MMC Master
panel you can use the transport buttons on the panel to
control the transport of the device.
• You can also use the buttons to the left on the MMC
Master panel to arm tape tracks for recording.
The number of record arm buttons depends on the “Number of Audio
Tracks” setting in the Master Machine Control Device section of the
Project Synchronization Setup dialog.
• The “A1, A2, TC, VD” items refer to additional tracks
usually found on video tape recorders.
Refer to the manual of your VTR device to see if these tracks are sup-
ported.
• If you activate the Sync button on the Transport panel,
the MMC Master transport buttons (or the buttons on the
main Transport panel) will control the external tape re-
corder and Cubase in sync.
14. On the Transport panel, activate the Sync button.
15. Try to Stop, Fast Forward and Rewind from Cubase
and activate Play from different positions in the project.
The tape transport should follow.
• To turn off the synchronization between the tape re-
corder and Cubase, simply deactivate Sync on the Trans-
port panel.
Cubase Studio:
16. On the Transport panel, activate the Sync button.
17. Try to Stop, Fast Forward and Rewind from Cubase
Studio and activate Play from different positions in the
project.
The tape transport should follow.
• Turn off the synchronization between the tape recorder
and Cubase Studio, simply deactivate Sync on the Trans-
port panel.
MIDI Machine Control activated