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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The basics
Page Mode
When you are preparing a score for printout, you should
set the Score Editor to Page Mode. This is done by se-
lecting Page Mode from the Scores menu. When Page
Mode is activated, a check mark will appear next to this
menu option.
Page Mode is activated.
In Edit mode, the window switches to display one page at
a time, as it will appear on printout.
Page Mode vs. Edit Mode
When Page Mode is not activated, the Score Editor is in
Edit Mode. All you can do in Edit Mode, you can also do in
Page Mode. But Page Mode offers lots of additional fea-
tures which are directly related to how the score is dis-
played and printed.
Using the scroll bars in Page Mode
In Page Mode, the scroll bars are used to scroll the image
of the page inside the window.
Moving between pages in Page Mode
If your score takes up more than one page, you can skip
between the pages in two ways:
• By using the page number indicator in the lower right
corner.
The number can be adjusted using the standard value editing tech-
niques.
The Page Number indicator – adjust it to move to another page.
• By assigning key commands to the functions “Move to
Next Page” and “Move to Previous Page” in the Key Com-
mands dialog (Scores category).
Also, if Autoscroll is activated on the toolbar, the score
display will follow the project cursor position. This way you
can scroll the score by using fast forward or rewind.
Editing individual parts in Page Mode
When you view a single part in Page Mode, the bars be-
fore and after the part will normally be shown as empty
measures in the Score editor. This is to preserve the lay-
out of the track, i.e. the spacing between staves and bar
lines, number of bars per staff etc.
If you want to view and print a single part, without any sur-
rounding empty bars, activate the option “Unlock Layout
when editing single parts” in the Preferences dialog
(Scores-Editing page). Note, however, that if you adjust
the layout when editing the part in this mode, this will
erase the layout for the whole track!
Playing back and recording
You can play back and record MIDI in the Score Editor us-
ing the standard transport commands, just like in the other
MIDI editors. See the chapter “The MIDI editors” on page
336.
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This section of the manual assumes you are in Page
Mode. It will be mentioned explicitly if something in
this text specifically relates to Edit Mode.