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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Index
Auto Layout
About 612
Hide Empty Staves 612
Move Bars 612
Move Bars and Staves 612
Move Staves 612
Optimize All 613
Spread Page 612
Auto Monitoring modes 72
Auto Quantize 81, 505
Auto Save 452
Auto Select Events under Cursor
MIDI editors 345
Project window 46
Automatic MIDI Record Quantize 81
Automation
About 204
Editing in Project Browser 411
Opening automation
subtracks 206
Reduction Preference 215
Showing and hiding 206
Trimming/offsetting curves 210
Write/Read buttons 209
Automation events
About 212
Drawing 212
Editing 212
Editing in the Project Browser 214
Removing 214
Selecting 213
Automation follows Events
(Option) 209
Automation modes
Autolatch 210
Overwrite 210
Touch Fader 210
Trim 210
X-Over 210
Automation Reduction Level 215
Automation Return Time 210
Automation subtracks
Assigning parameters to 207
Hiding and showing 208
Muting 208
Autoscroll 58, 342, 492
B
Backup (.bak) files 452
Bar Handles 571, 632
Bar Lines
Breaking 614
Indent 609
Moving 609
Selecting Type 606
Bar Numbers
Offsetting 593
Settings 592
Spacing 592
Bars
Moving to Next/Prev. Staff 608
Number Across Page 608
Resetting Spacing 609
Bars+Beats Linear
MIDI editors 340
Tempo Track Editor 396
Basic Appearance Scheme 469
Bass To Lowest Voice
Explode Function 510, 536
Beam Subgroups 507
Beams 547
Appearance 550
Group Settings 550
Grouping 547
Manual Adjustment 550
On/Off 547
Slant 550
Stem Direction 542
Beat Calculator 401
Bezier slurs 564
Block Text 589
Bounce (Export Audio) 414
Bounce Selection
Pool 280
Project window 52
Sample Editor 243
Bow Up/Down 545
Box symbol 576
Braces 611
Bracket Head 546
Brackets 611
Brightness 469, 470
Brillenbass 548
Broadcast Wave files
Exporting 417
Recording 68
Browser 408
Build N-Tuplet 555
Build Trill 565
Busses
About 14
Adding 16
Mixing down to file 414
Routing to and from 17
Viewing in the mixer 18
Bypass
Effect sends 172
Inserts 165
C
Calculate (Hitpoints) 254
Center Note-Linked Symbols on
Stems 563
Channel (MIDI) 79
Channel Overview
EQ 136
Insert effects 166
Channel setting
MIDI 80
Channel Settings
Audio tracks 133
Copying 137
MIDI tracks 140
Channel Settings windows
Customizing 466
Channel view sets 125
Chase 64
Child Bus 16
Chord Recognition 340
Chord Symbols
Global Settings 583
Inserting Automatically 582
Inserting Manually 581
Clean Lengths 506
Cleanup 454, 461
Clefs
Editing 524
Inserting 524
Moving 525
Setting Initial 496