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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Table of Contents
311 Track Quick Controls
312 Introduction
312 Setting up the Quick Controls tab
313 Options and settings
314 Setting up quick controls on an external remote
controller
315 MIDI realtime parameters and effects
316 Introduction
316 The Inspector – General handling
317 Basic track settings
319 MIDI Modifiers
321 MIDI effects
323 Managing plug-ins
324 MIDI processing and quantizing
325 Introduction
325 The Quantizing functions
330 Making your settings permanent
332 Dissolve Part
333 O-Note Conversion
333 Repeat Loop
333 Other MIDI functions
336 The MIDI editors
337 About editing MIDI
337 Opening a MIDI editor
339 The Key Editor – Overview
341 Key Editor operations
354 Edit In-Place
356 The Drum Editor – Overview
357 Drum Editor operations
359 Working with drum maps
362 Using drum name lists
363 The List Editor – Overview
364 List Editor operations
367 The Logical Editor, Transformer and
Input Transformer
368 Introduction
368 Opening the Logical Editor
369 Window overview
369 Selecting a preset
369 Setting up filter conditions
374 Selecting a function
375 Specifying actions
377 Applying the defined actions
377 Working with presets
377 The Input Transformer
379 The Project Logical Editor
380 Introduction
380 Opening the Project Logical Editor
380 Window overview
381 Selecting a preset
381 Setting up filter conditions
387 Selecting a function
387 Specifying actions
388 Applying the defined actions
389 Working with presets
390 Working with System Exclusive
messages
391 Introduction
391 Bulk dumps
392 Recording System Exclusive parameter changes
393 Editing System Exclusive messages
394 Working with the Tempo track
395 Background
395 The Tempo Track Editor – Overview
397 Operations
399 Process Tempo (Cubase only)
400 The Process Bars dialog (Cubase only)
401 Options and settings
401 The Beat Calculator
402 Merge Tempo From Tapping
402 The Time Warp tool
407 The Project Browser
408 Window Overview
409 Editing tracks
413 Export Audio Mixdown
414 Introduction
414 Mixing down to an audio file
415 The available file formats