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
Designing your work space
Some of the areas in the Score editor can be hidden. Ex-
actly which areas to show/hide depends e.g. on what kind
of project you are working on, and how big a monitor you
have.
These areas can be hidden or displayed.
• You can configure the toolbar, the info line and the In-
spector in their own setup dialogs. Here you can specify
exactly which buttons, which properties for a particular
object, or which symbol tabs you wish to see.
The handling is the same for the different Setup dialogs. For a detailed
description of the Inspector Setup dialog, see “The symbol Inspector Se-
tup dialog” on page 558.
The info line
The info line displays information about the selected note.
It can be hidden/displayed by clicking the “Show Info”
button on the toolbar, or by using a key command, by de-
fault [Ctrl]/[Command]-[I].
The extended toolbar
The extended toolbar can be displayed/hidden by clicking
the “Show Tool Strip” button on the main toolbar.
The display filter bar
This area contains checkboxes determining which indica-
tors, handles and other non-printed elements should be
shown in the score. You can show/hide the filter bar by
clicking the “Show Filter View” button on the toolbar.
The ruler
In the Score Editor there are no meter/time position rulers
as in the other editors. Instead, there are horizontal and
vertical “graphic rulers” in Page Mode. These help you in
positioning symbols and graphical objects in the score.
• To specify which units should be used on the rulers,
open the Zoom pop-up menu and select one of the options.
You can choose between points, inches or centimeters.
• To hide the rulers, select “Off” from the pop-up menu.
Inspector
Extended toolbar
Info line
Display filter bar
Ruler