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
Click 85
Clips, see “Audio clips”
Close Gaps 258
Close project 450
Color pop-up menu 546, 605
MIDI editors 343
Project window 41
Color tool 41
Coloring notes 546, 605
Colorize Event Background 39
Common Time 497
Configuring Studio Sends 158
Configuring the Control Room
Mixer 151
Conform Files 283
Consolidate Rests 506
Constrain Delay Compensation 193
Context menus 496
Control Room
About 147
Channels 148
Configuring 148
Creating a Channel 149
Features 147
Mixer 151
Operations 153
Overview 151
Preferences 157
Settings 157
Controller display
About 341
Adding and removing lanes 350
Controller lane presets 350
Editing events 352
Editing velocity 351
Selecting event type 350
Controllers
Deleting 354
Editing 352
Lane Editing 351, 353
Recording 82
Convert Files 282
Convert to Real Copy 47
Converting MIDI to CC track
automation 335
Copy 520, 573
Count-in 85
Cpr files 450
Create Audio Images During
Record 74
Create events 258
Create events (Cycle Rec Mode) 75
Create Groove Quantize 258
Create MIDI track when loading
VSTi 183
Create new controller lane 350
Create Regions (Cycle Rec Mode) 76
Create slices 257
Crescendo
Affecting MIDI playback 625
Drawing 575
Flipping 575
Keeping Horizontal 575
Crop 56
Cross Staff Beaming 549
Crossed Voicings 538
Crossfades
Creating 91
Editing in dialog 92
Presets 93
Removing 92
Csh files 282
Ctrl/Command key 12
Cue Notes 553
Cursor, see “Project cursor”
Custom Palette 561
Cut 520
Cut Notes Tool 551
Cut Time 55, 497
Cutflag Events 551
Cycle
About 62
About recording 67
Record modes 81
Recording audio 75
Recording MIDI 81
Cycle markers
About 107
Adding in Marker window 107
Drawing 109
Editing 109
Making selections with 110
Navigating to 109
On Marker track 108
D
D.C. (Da Capo) 577
D.S. (Dal Segno) 577
Damper Pedal Symbols 576
DC Offset 223
Deactivate
Inserts 165
Deactivate plug-in when silence is
detected (VST 3) 163, 189
Deactivate Punch In on Stop 84
Default MIDI editor 337
Default Number of Bars per Staff 608
Default Output Bus 17
Default template 451
Default Track Time Type 42
Delay compensation
About 164
Constraining 193
Delete
Audio files from disk 275
Events in Project window 52
MIDI controllers 333, 354
MIDI drum notes 358
MIDI notes 348
Notes 525
Symbols 573
Delete Continuous Controllers 333
Delete Controllers function 333
Delete Doubles function 333
Delete Notes function 334
Delete Overlaps
Audio 53, 77
Mono (MIDI) 334
Poly (MIDI) 334
Delete Time 55
Detect Silence 229
Device Panels 31, 132
Device Ports
Selecting for busses 16
Setting up 15
Dialogs 496
Diminuendo
Affecting MIDI playback 625
Drawing 575
Keeping Horizontal 575
Disable Display transpose 501
Disable Hitpoints 255