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
Customizing the event background
On the Event Display page in the Preferences, you can
find the option “Colorize Event Background”.
This option affects the display of events in the project win-
dow.
• When this is activated, the background of the events
and parts in the event display will be shown in the se-
lected color.
• When this is deactivated, the event “content”, i.e. MIDI
events, audio waveforms, etc. will be displayed in the se-
lected color and the event background will be displayed in
gray.
The Event Colors dialog
You can open the Event Colors dialog in two ways:
• Double-click the small strip below the color tool.
• Open the Color pop-up menu on the toolbar and select
“Select Colors…”.
In the Event Colors dialog, you can fully customize the
color palette, apart from the default color (gray).
To add new colors to the color palette, proceed as follows:
1. Click the Insert New Color button in the Event Colors
section to add a new color.
A new color icon and color name are added to the Event Colors section.
2. Click the color field next to the name field to activate
the new color for editing.
3. In the Standard Colors section, select the standard
color. You can modify the selected color in the following
way:
• Drag the cursor to another point in the color circle.
• Move the handle in the color meter.
• Enter the values for red, green and blue and hue, saturation
and luminosity manually.
4. Click the Apply button in the Standard Colors section.
The color setting is applied to the selected color item.
You can edit every existing event color in the same way.
• To delete an event color item, select it and click the
“Remove Selected Color” button in the Event Colors sec-
tion.
• To increase or decrease the intensity and the brightness
of all colors, use the corresponding buttons in the Event
Colors section.
• To save the current set as default, click the button “This
set as default set” in the Event Colors section. You can
then click the button “Use default set” to the right to apply
the saved default set.
• To return to the standard setting of the palette in Cu-
base, click Reset.
Remove
new color
Increase/decrease in-
tensity for all colors
This Set as
Default Set
Increase/decrease
brightness for all colors
Insert
new color
Use Default
Set