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
Patch name
scripts
\Scripts\Patchnames\ as *.txt file
Preferences
presets
\Presets\Configurations\<Preset Name>.xml
Quantize
presets
\Presets\RAMPresets.xml
Score – Settings Score Setting Window.xml
Score –
Default font
Score Default Font.xml
Score – Custom
Palettes
Score Custom Palettes.xml
Score – Guitar
symbols
GuitarLib.xml
Score – Chord
symbols
\Presets\ChordSymbols.xml
Staff Presets \Presets\Staff Presets as *.xml file
Snapshot file \Presets\MIDI snapshot<device name><unique com-
bination of letters and numbers> as *.xml file
Toolbar presets \Presets\RAMPresets.xml
Track controls
presets
\Presets\RAMPresets.xml
Track presets
(user-defined,
for all programs)
Win: \Documents and Settings\<user name>\Applica-
tion Data\Steinberg\Track Presets
Mac: Users/<user name>/Library/Application Sup-
port/Steinberg/Track Presets
(with the subfolders \Audio, \Instrument, \Midi, \Multi)
as *.trackpreset file
Transport panel
presets
\Presets\RAMPresets.xml
Usage profile
log
Usage Profile.xml (only saved if the corresponding op-
tion in the Preferences is activated)
User templates templates\<Template Name>.cpr
VST connections
presets
\Presets\RAMPresets.xml
VST 3 plug-ins
and instruments
VstPlugInfo.xml
VST 2 plug-ins
and instruments
Vst2xPlugins.xml
VST3 presets
(user-defined,
for all programs)
Win: \Common files\VST3 Presets\<company>\
<plug-in name>
Mac: Users/<user name>/Library/Audio/Presets/
<company>/<plug-in name>
as *.vstpreset file
VST3 presets
(public, for all pro-
grams)
Win: \Documents and Settings\VST3 Presets\<com-
pany>\<plug-in name>
Mac: /Library/Audio/Presets/<company>/<plug-in
name>
as *.vstpreset file
Workspaces saved in project
Setting Stored in
Workspace pre-
sets (global)
Window Layouts.xml
Zoom presets \Presets\RAMPresets.xml
Quick Control
Settings
Quick Controls MIDI.xml
Setting Stored in