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
Moving bar lines
The following operations can be made using the regular
Object Selection tool or the Layout tool, it doesn’t matter.
Moving a bar line
If you drag a bar line to the left or right, the surrounding
bars are adjusted proportionally.
Moving bar lines on all staves
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] when dragging a bar line,
all bar lines below the one you drag will be moved accord-
ingly.
Moving a single bar line separately
If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging a bar
line, the widths of the surrounding bars are not affected.
Making an indent on one line
• To create an indent, simply drag the first or last bar line
on a staff.
The sizes of all measures are adjusted proportionally.
Before and after dragging the first bar line on the first staff.
Making indents on several lines
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the first or last bar
line in a system, all following systems will get the same in-
dent. If you want all lines on all pages to be indented in the
same way, hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the appro-
priate bar line on the first system of the score.
The last bar line in the score
Cubase attempts to move the last bar line and space the
bars on the last line in a sensible way. But you can change
this manually by dragging the last bar line, if you like. To
change the type of the last bar line, double-click it and se-
lect the desired type.
Resetting bar spacing
To reset the bar spacing to standard values for several
lines, proceed as follows:
1. Locate the first line for which you want to reset the bar
spacing, and make one staff in that system active.
2. Select “Number of Bars” from the Advanced Layout
submenu on the Scores menu.
3. Specify the number of bars that you already have on
the line.
4. Click on “This Staff”.
Clicking “All Staves” will reset the lines of all staves in the score, see
“Using the Number of Bars dialog” on page 608.
5. Close the dialog.
The bar spacing is reset for the currently selected staff and all following
staves.