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 text
Text functions
The Words tab
If you have certain words that you use a lot, you can “store”
these as dedicated symbols on the Words tab. This will
save time, since you don’t have to type the same word over
and over again.
Storing a word
1. Open the Words symbol tab.
This tab is hidden by default. See “Showing/Hiding symbol Inspector
tabs” on page 558 for information on how to display hidden Inspector
tabs.
2. Double-click on an “empty” symbol.
The Custom Text Editor dialog appears.
3. Type in the desired word(s) in the text field at the top
of the dialog.
4. Specify the text type (regular text or lyrics) with the
Type pop-up.
5. Make settings for font, size and style.
You can also use a text attribute set if you like.
6. Click Exit to close the dialog.
The word(s) you entered appear in the selected symbol field on the
Words tab.
• Right-clicking one of the fields opens a context menu
with a number of options:
• Select “Edit…” to open the Custom Text Editor dialog.
• Select “New” to add a new empty symbol to the Words tab.
• Select “Remove” to delete any unwanted symbols from the
Words tab.
• Select “Open As Palette” to open the Words symbol palette.
Inserting a word
You insert words from the Words tab as you would insert
any regular symbol, by selecting the appropriate word and
clicking in the score. However, you can edit the word after
inserting it, just as with text inserted by typing.
Find and replace
This function allows you to replace all occurrences of a cer-
tain word or group of words, with another word or group of
words. The replacement is done once and for all, for all text
symbol types, regardless of font, size and style settings.
Proceed as follows:
1. Pull down the Scores menu and select “Find and Re-
place” from the Functions submenu.
A dialog appears.
2. Enter the word(s) to replace in the Find value field.
3. If you want all instances of the word(s) to be replaced,
regardless of upper/lower case, deactivate the “Case
Sensitive” option.
4. If you don’t want to replace the word(s) if they are a
part of another word, activate the “Entire Word” option.
For example, if you want to replace the word “string” but not the word
“stringendo”, you should activate “Entire Word”.
5. Enter the word(s) that should be used as replacement
in the “Replace” field.
6. Click OK.
Now all occurrences of the “Find” word(s) will be replaced with the
“Replace” word(s).