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 Note Linked pop-up lets you create symbols linked to
note positions. This affects the whole symbol, not a se-
lected graphic object.
The Functions pop-up menu contains the following items
(some of these can also be accessed on the context menu
for the User Symbols tab):
Color pop-up Selects Frame or Fill Color for objects. The “Select Col-
ors…” menu item brings up a standard color dialog.
Line Width Allows you to change the line width used for the selected
object.
Menu item Description
Not Linked The symbol will not be linked to notes.
Linked/Left The symbol will be linked to a note, appearing to the left
of the note.
Linked/Center The symbol will be linked and centered to a note.
Linked/Behind The symbol will be linked to a note, appearing to the right
of the note.
Menu item Description
New Symbol Adds a new empty symbol to the tab (and to the symbol
list to the left in the editor).
Delete Symbol Deletes the current symbol from the tab.
Export User
Symbols…
Allows you to save the current tab as a separate file on
disk.
Import User
Symbols…
Loads settings for a complete tab from disk. Note that this
replaces the current settings.
Export/Import
Symbol…
Lets you save or load individual symbols to/from disk. Im-
porting a symbol replaces the current symbol in the tab.
Delete Deletes the selected object(s).
Select All Selects all objects in the current symbol.
Transform –
Scale Symbol
Lets you scale (resize) the selected object by specifying a
percentage.
Transform –
Mirror horizon-
tal/vertical
Mirrors the selected object along the horizontal or vertical
axis.
Transform –
Flip ± 90
Rotates the selected object by + or – 90 degrees.
Draw –
Group
Groups the selected objects so that they are treated as
one.
Draw –
Ungroup
Ungroups the selected group.
Draw –
Bring To Front/
Send To Back
These items let you arrange the objects by moving them
to the front or the back.
Tool Description
Align Aligns the selected objects to each other.
View Sets the zoom factor for the drawing area.
Menu item Description