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
55
The Project window
Making selection ranges for several non-contiguous
tracks
You can create selection ranges that cover several tracks
by pressing [Alt]/[Option]+[Shift]. However, it is also pos-
sible to exclude tracks from a selection range:
1. Create a selection range from the first to the last de-
sired track.
2. Press [Alt]/[Option] and click in the selection range on
the tracks you want to exclude from the selection.
3. In the same manner, you can add a track to the selec-
tion range by [Alt]/[Option]-clicking in the selection range
area on the track.
Moving and duplicating
• To move a selection range, click and drag it to a new
position.
This will move the contents of the selection range to the new position. If
the range intersected events or parts, these will be split before moving,
so that only the sections within the selection range are affected.
• To duplicate a selection range, hold down [Alt]/[Option]
and drag.
You can also use the Duplicate, Repeat and Fill Loop functions, just as
when duplicating events.
Using Cut, Copy and Paste
When working with selection ranges, you can either use
Cut, Copy and Paste on the Edit menu, or use the func-
tions “Cut Time” and “Paste Time” on the Range submenu
on the Edit menu. These work differently to their related
functions on the Edit menu:
Deleting selection ranges
Again, you can either use “regular” Delete or “Delete Time”:
• If you use the Delete function on the Edit menu (or press
[Backspace]), the data within the selection range is re-
placed by empty track space.
Events to the right of the range keep their position.
• If you use “Delete Time” on the Edit menu’s Range sub-
menu, the selection range is removed and events to the
right are moved to the left to close up the gap.
Function Description
Cut Cuts out the data in the selection range and moves it to
the clipboard. The selection range is replaced by empty
track space in the Project window, meaning that events
to the right of the range keep their positions.
Copy Copies the data in the selection range to the clipboard.
Paste Pastes the clipboard data at the start position and track
of the current selection. Existing events are not moved to
make room for the pasted data.
Paste at Origin Pastes the clipboard data back at its original position. Ex-
isting events are not moved to make room for the pasted
data.
Cut Time Cuts out the selection range and moves it to the clip-
board. Events to the right of the removed range are
moved to the left to fill out the gap.
Paste Time Pastes the clipboard data at the start position and track
of the current selection. Existing events are moved to
make room for the pasted data.
Paste Time at
Origin
Pastes the clipboard data back at its original position. Ex-
isting events are moved to make room for the pasted data.