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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Customizing
The Setup dialogs
You can customize the appearance of the following ele-
ments:
• transport panel
• info line
• channel settings window
• toolbars
• Inspector
Customizing via the setup context menus
If you right-click the Transport panel, the toolbars, the info
lines, or the Inspector, the respective setup context menu
opens. For channel settings windows, these options are
found in the dialog menu, on the Customize View sub-
menu. On this menu, you can activate/deactivate elements
as desired.
The following general options are available on the setup
context menus:
• “Show All” makes all items visible.
• “Default” resets the interface to the default setting.
• “Setup…” opens the Setup dialog (see below).
If presets are available, they can be selected on the lower
half of the menu.
The info line and Inspector setup context menus. In the Inspector setup
context menu, the available options depend on the track type.
Customizing via the Setup dialog
If you select “Setup…” from the setup context menus, the
Setup dialog opens. This allows you to specify which ele-
ments should be visible/hidden and to set the order of the
elements. You can also save and recall setup presets in
this dialog.
The Setup dialog, e.g. for the Transport panel.
The dialog is divided into two columns. The left column
displays the currently visible items and the right column
displays the currently hidden items.
• You can change the current show/hide status by select-
ing items in one column and then using the arrow buttons in
the middle of the dialog to move them to the other column.
Changes are applied directly.
• By selecting items in the “Visible Items” column and us-
ing the Move Up and Move Down buttons, you can reorder
the selected item(s).
Changes are applied directly. To undo all changes and revert back to the
standard layout, select “Default” on the setup context menu.
A customized Transport panel.
• If you click the Save button (disk icon) in the Presets
section, a dialog opens, allowing you to name the current
configuration and to save it as a preset.
• To remove a preset, select it on the presets pop-up
menu and click the trash icon.
• Saved configurations are available for selection from the
Presets pop-up in the Setup dialog or directly from the
setup context menu.