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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Working with symbols
The “Line/Trill” palette. Note that the arpeggios, hand indication and
strum symbols are all “note-dependent”!
The “Other” palette.
The “Layout” palette. All these symbols are drawn in their own “layer”.
The “Project” palette. These symbols will be present in all layouts.
The “Words” palette. This is described in the section “The Words tab”
on page 591.
The “User Symbols” palette. This is described in the section “User
Symbols” on page 578.
Further details about many of the symbols can be found in
the section “Symbol details” on page 574.
Setting up the Favourites tab
In the symbol Inspector, you will find a tab called Favou-
rites. Cubase allows you to fill this tab with a selection of
symbols from other tabs. This way, you have instant ac-
cess to the symbols you use often:
1. Open the Favourites tab.
If it’s the first time you are using this tab, it will be empty.
2. Open the tab from which you want to copy a symbol.
Ö Not all symbols can be placed on the Favourites tab.
3. Right-click on the symbol you want to add to the
Favourites tab and select “Add to Favourites” on the con-
text menu that appears.
You can also add a symbol to the Favourites tab by [Alt]/[Option]-click-
ing on it.
4. Repeat this procedures for other symbols you want to
add to the Favourites tab.
Arpeggio
Arpeggio
Hand indication
Arpeggio
Strum
Hand indication
Segno (sizable)
Strum
Turn
Trill
Trill
Trill
Octave Octave
Trill
Trill
Main voiceAcc. voice
Ending Ending
Line Line
Beam Beam
Beam Beam
Bracket beam Bracket beam
Tuplet bracketTuplet bracket
Lyrics
Regular text
Guitar chord symbol
Block Text (import)
Pedal down
Chord
Repeat
Pedal up
Segno
Repeat
Segno (sizable)
Coda
Keyboard symbol
Box symbol
Select Symbol, see
“Additional symbols”
on page 577.
Text (layout layer)BlockText (layout layer)
Rehearsal markPage Text
Tempo as numberRehearsal mark
D.C. al Fine (text)Tempo as note value
Da Capo al Coda (text)Dal Segno al Fine (text)
Fine (text)Dal Segno al Coda (text)
CodaSegno
EndingEnding
Keyboard symbolBox symbol