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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File handling
Save Project to New Folder
This function is very useful if you want to move or archive
your project.
1. Select “Save Project to New Folder”.
A file dialog opens in which you can choose an existing, empty folder or
create a new folder to save the project.
2. Click OK to confirm your choice.
The “Save to Folder Options” dialog opens with the following options:
3. Make the desired settings.
4. Click OK.
The project is saved in the new folder. The original project is not affected.
However, now you could e.g. delete the original project without losing
your project data.
Startup Options
Auto Save
If you activate the Auto Save option in the Preferences
(General page), Cubase will automatically save backup
copies of all open projects with unsaved changes.
Backup copies of projects are named “<project name>-
xx.bak”, where xx is an incremental number. Unsaved
projects are backed up in a similar way as “UntitledX-
xx.bak”, with X being the incremental number for unsaved
projects. All backup files are saved in the project folder.
• Use the “Auto Save Interval” setting to specify the time
intervals in which a backup copy will be created.
• Use the “Maximum Backup Files” option to specify how
many backup files will be created with the Auto Save func-
tion.
When the maximum number of backup files is reached, the existing files
will be overwritten (starting with the oldest file).
On Startup
The “On Startup” pop-up menu in the Preferences (Gen-
eral page) allows you to specify what should happen each
time you launch Cubase.
Option Description
Project Name Enter a project name if you want to change it from the de-
fault (the current name of the project).
Minimize Audio
Files
If this is activated, only the audio file portions that are ac-
tually used in the project will be included. This can signi-
ficantly reduce the size of the project folder (if you are
using small sections of large files), but it also means you
cannot use other portions of the audio files if you con-
tinue working with the project in its new folder.
Freeze Edits This will perform a Freeze Edits operation, making all pro-
cessing and applied effects permanent to each clip in the
Pool, see “Freeze Edits” on page 228.
Remove
Unused Files
When this is activated, only files in the Pool that are actu-
ally used in the project will be stored in the new folder.