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
54
The Project window
When the Range Selection tool is selected, the Select
submenu on the Edit menu has the following items for
making selection ranges:
• Double-clicking on an event with the Range Selection
tool creates a selection range encompassing the event.
If you hold down [Shift] you can double-click several events in a row, and
the selection range will expand to encompass them all. Double-clicking a
second time on an event opens it for editing in the Sample Editor.
Adjusting the size of the selection range
You can adjust the size of a selection range in the follow-
ing ways:
• By dragging its edges.
The pointer takes the shape of a double arrow when you move it over an
edge of the selection range.
• By holding down [Shift] and clicking.
The closest selection range edge will be moved to the position at which
you clicked.
• By adjusting the selection range start or end position on
the info line.
• By using the Trim buttons on the toolbar.
The left Trim buttons will move the start of the selection range and the
right buttons will move the end. The edges will be moved by the amount
specified on the Grid pop-up.
Clicking this Trim button…
…will move the start of the selection range to the right by 1beat.
• By using the Nudge buttons on the toolbar.
These will move the whole selection range to the left or the right. The
amount of movement depends on the selected display format (see “The
Project Setup dialog” on page 35) and the value specified on the Grid
pop-up menu.
Ö The Trim buttons and the Nudge buttons are located
in the Nudge palette, which is not visible in the toolbar by
default.
See “The Setup dialogs” on page 466 for instructions on how to show
and hide items in the toolbar.
Option Description
All Makes a selection that covers all tracks, from the start of
the project to the end (as defined by the Length setting in
the Project Setup dialog).
None Removes the current selection range.
Invert Only used for event selection (see “Selecting events” on
page 45).
In Loop Makes a selection between the left and right locator, on
all tracks.
From Start
to Cursor
Makes a selection on all tracks, from the start of the
project to the project cursor.
From Cursor
to End
Makes a selection on all tracks, from the project cursor to
the end of the project.
All on Selected
Tracks
Only used for event selection (see “Selecting events” on
page 45).
Select Event This is available in the Sample Editor (see “Using the Se-
lect menu” on page 242).
Left Selection
Side to Cursor
Moves the left side of the current selection range to the
project cursor position.
Right Selection
Side to Cursor
Moves the right side of the current selection range to the
project cursor position.
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Note that the contents of the selection are not
moved – using the Nudge buttons is the same as ad-
justing the start and end of the selection range at the
same time, by the same amount.