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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Printing and exporting pages
Printing
Printing from the Score Editor
1. On the Scores menu, activate “Page Mode”.
Printing is only possible from within Page Mode.
2. Select Page Setup from the File menu and make sure
all your printer settings are correct. Close the dialog.
3. Select Print from the File menu.
4. The standard Print dialog appears. Fill out the options
as desired.
5. Click Print.
Exporting pages as image files
You can export a section of a page or a complete page in
various file formats. This allows you to import your scores
into desktop publishing and drawing applications.
Selecting a section of a page for exporting
If you only want to export a part of a certain page, proceed
as follows:
1. Make sure you are in Page Mode.
2. Select the Export tool (“Select Export Range”).
The pointer turns into a crosshair.
3. Drag over the section of the score you want to include.
The area is indicated by a black rectangle.
• You can adjust the size of the rectangle by clicking and drag-
ging its handles with the Object Selection tool.
• You can move the rectangle to another position in the score
by clicking and dragging.
To export the selected range, you have two possibilities:
• Double-click inside the rectangle while it is selected.
This opens the Export Scores dialog, where you can make settings for
the file to be created (see below).
• Use the Export Scores function, see below.
Exporting
To export the score, proceed as follows:
1. Make sure you are in Page Mode.
2. If your score contains several pages, select the de-
sired page.
3. Pull down the File menu and on the Export submenu,
select “Export Scores…”.
The Export Scores dialog appears.
4. Select a picture format.
5. Specify a resolution for the file.
This determines the accuracy with which the image will be created.
300dpi, for example, is the resolution many laser printers use for printing.
If the image file will only be displayed on screen in other programs, select
72 or 96 (depending on screen resolution) and it will have the same size
as it had in Cubase.
6. Specify a name and a location for the file and click
“Save”.
The page of the score is exported and saved as a file. It can now be im-
ported into any program supporting the selected file format.
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If you change your setting for paper size, scale and
margins now, the score may change its look.