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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Table of Contents
162 Audio effects
163 About this chapter
163 Overview
164 Insert effects
169 Send effects
170 Setting up send effects
174 Using the Side-Chain input
175 Using external effects (Cubase only)
176 Making settings for the effects
176 Effect presets
179 Installing and managing effect plug-ins
182 VST Instruments and Instrument tracks
183 Introduction
183 VST Instrument channels vs. instrument tracks
183 VST Instrument channels
185 Instrument tracks
187 Comparison
187 Automation considerations
188 What do I need? Instrument channel or Instrument
track?
188 Instrument Freeze
189 VST instruments and processor load
190 Using presets for VSTi configuration
193 About latency
194 External instruments (Cubase only)
195 Surround sound (Cubase only)
196 Background
198 Operations
203 Automation
204 Background
205 What can be automated?
206 Automation track operations
209 Using Write/Read automation
212 Working with automation curves
215 Tips and common methods
215 Options and Settings
216 Audio processing and functions
217 Background
217 Audio processing
226 Applying plug-ins (Cubase only)
227 The Offline Process History dialog
228 Freeze Edits
229 Detect Silence
230 The Spectrum Analyzer (Cubase only)
231 Statistics (Cubase only)
233 The Sample Editor
234 Background
235 Window overview
240 General Operations
245 Options and settings
246 Audio Warp realtime processing/Tempo matching
audio to the project tempo
252 Working with hitpoints and slices
259 Free Warp
262 Realtime pitch-shifting of audio events
262 Flattening the realtime processing
264 The Audio Part Editor
265 Background
265 Opening the Audio Part Editor
265 Window overview
267 Operations
268 Common methods
269 Options and Settings
270 The Pool
271 Background
271 Window overview
274 Operations
284 VST Sound
285 Introduction
287 The MediaBay
288 Introduction
289 Window overview
289 Browsing for media files
292 Finding files in the Viewer section
295 Previewing files in the Scope section
296 The Tag Editor (Cubase only)
298 Media management
300 Track Presets
301 Introduction
301 Types of track presets
303 VST presets
304 Browsing for presets
306 Creating a track preset
306 Creating tracks from track presets or VST presets
307 Applying track presets
309 Previewing track and VST presets
310 Inserts and EQ settings from track presets