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 layouts
Here you can perform a number of operations:
Opening the tracks in a layout
To select another combination of tracks for editing, select
the corresponding layout in the list.
• You can keep the dialog open while you are editing, and
use this function for selecting which tracks to edit.
Importing layout symbols
By selecting another layout and selecting “Get Form” from
the Functions pop-up menu below the list, you import all
Layout symbols (inserted from the Layout symbol Inspector
section) from the selected layout into the current layout.
Managing layouts
• To rename a layout, select it in the list and enter the de-
sired name in the Name field to the right in the dialog.
Initially, a layout gets the name of one of the edited tracks – it may be a
good idea to give each layout a more informative name.
• To remove a layout you no longer need, select it in the
list and select “Remove” in the Functions pop-up menu.
• To remove all layouts for which there no longer are track
combinations, select “Clean Up” from the Functions pop-
up menu.
Importing and exporting layouts
By selecting a layout and selecting “Export…” or “Im-
port…” from the Functions pop-up menu below the list,
you can export or import a Layout. Note, that all Staff set-
tings will be taken into account, when exporting or import-
ing a layout.
Working with Display Transpose
You can specify for each staff in a layout whether it should
use display transpose. Just click in the D column in the
Score Settings–Layout page to activate or deactivate the
option. Note that this setting affects this layout only!
Using layouts – an example
The following text outlines the basic steps for extracting a
musical part from a full score.
1. Prepare the entire score, including all formatting.
This might include inserting Project layer Block Text for the Score title,
setting the bar line type, etc.
2. Open the Score Settings–Layout page and enter the
desired name in the Name field (for example “Full Score”).
3. Close the Score Editor.
4. Open a single track, for example a woodwind part.
The Project layer settings will automatically appear in the new single
track layout.
5. Prepare a layout for the woodwind part.
You might for example move bar lines, add endings, activate multiple rests,
etc.