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Additional note and rest formatting
3. Drag the handle up or down.
The slant of the beam changes.
Dragging a handle and the effect it has.
Ö You can adjust the distance between notes and their
beam without changing the beam slant. Select both handles
of a beam (by pressing the [Shift] key while selecting the
second handle) and drag one of the handles up or down.
Mixed staff direction
By dragging the beam handles you can put the beam be-
tween the note heads:
Putting the beam between the notes.
About tied notes
Sometimes, notes will be displayed as two or more notes
tied together. Generally, there are three different occa-
sions when this will happen:
• When a note is of an “uneven” length that cannot be displayed
without tying together two or more notes of different note val-
ues.
• When a note crosses a bar line.
• When a note crosses a “group line” within a bar.
The last case requires some explanation: Cubase uses a
“cutting mechanism” that automatically creates tied notes
depending on the length and position of the notes. For ex-
ample, a quarter note is cut in two and tied if it crosses a
half note beat, and an eighth note is cut in two and tied if it
crosses a quarter note beat:
However, this isn’t always what you want. There are three
ways to affect the cutting mechanism:
Syncopation
When the Syncopation option is activated on the Main tab
of the Score Settings–Staff page, Cubase will be less
prone to cut and tie notes. For example, the second quar-
ter note in the figure above would not have been cut if syn-
copation had been activated.
The Syncopation setting on the Score Settings–Staff
page affects the whole track, but you can also make syn-
copation settings for separate sections in the score, by in-
serting display quantize events (see “Inserting display
quantize changes” on page 509).
Time signature changes
By inserting time signature changes, you can change the
way notes are cut. This is done in the same way as when
you specify how beamed notes should be grouped – see
“Grouping” on page 547.
The Cut Notes tool
By using the Cut Notes tool, you can disable the auto-
matic cutting mechanism in a bar, and insert manual cuts
at any given position in the score:
1. Select the Cut Notes tool.
This quarter note is cut.
This eighth note is cut.
With a regular 4/4 time signature.
With a composite time signature (3+2+3 eighth notes).