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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Designing your score: additional techniques
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
• How to change the staff size.
• How to create multi-rests.
• How to add and edit bar lines.
• How to create upbeats.
• How to set measure spacing and the number of bars across
the page.
• How to control staff and grand staff spacing.
• How to use the Auto Layout dialog.
• How to use the Reset Layout function.
• How to break bar lines.
Layout settings
The Score Settings–Layout page contains a number of
settings that affect the display of the current layout.
The track list
The track list lists the tracks included in the layout and al-
lows you to make the following settings:
Equal Spacing
• Activate this option when you want a note to take up
space according to its note value. When Equal Spacing is
activated, two sixteenth notes will take up as much space
as one eighth note, for example.
When this is deactivated, the note spacing will be spaced automatically.
Size
Changes the size of all staves. See “Staff size” on page
604.
Multi-Rests
Whenever more than one-bar rests occur, the program can
replace these with a multi-rest symbol. This parameter al-
lows you to set how many empty bars should be “allowed”
before Cubase should collect them into a multi-rest. “Off”
means “never”. See “Multiple rests” on page 606 for more
information on multi-rests.
Real Book
When this option is activated, clef symbols are not set out
at the beginning of each staff, only on the first staff on
each page.
!
Before you start designing the score page layout,
you should open the Page Setup dialog on the File
menu, and make settings for paper size, print scale
and margins!
Option Description
Brackets These two columns allow you to add braces or brackets,
encompassing any number of staves in the layout. See
“Adding brackets and braces” on page 611.
T This is relevant if the Modern Time Signature option is ac-
tivated to the right. In that case, you use this column to
specify for which tracks the time signature should be
shown – see below.
N Determines whether the staff name should be shown for
each staff in the layout.
L If this is activated, any layout symbols will be shown; oth-
erwise they will be hidden. This allows you to e.g. have re-
hearsal markers shown for the top staff only in a multi-staff
layout.
D This option lets you specify for each staff in a layout
whether it should use display transpose.