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
Disable sends 172
Disable Track 63
Display Arrow after Inserting
Symbol 562
Display filter bar 494, 495
Display format 34
Display Length 522, 545
Display Markers 597
Display Quantize
About 487
Auto 505
In Polyphonic Voices 537
Inserting changes 509
Rest 488
Setting 505
Tool 488, 509
Value 514
Display Transpose 500, 507
Display transpose 529
Dissolve Part
Audio 44
MIDI 332
Dithering 167
Dividing the Track list 42
Don’t Center Hyphens 588
Don’t Sync Lyrics 588
Double Click Symbol to get Pencil
Tool 562
Drag Delay 46
Drag&drop Inserts
Sidechain 175
Draw
Hitpoints 256
In Sample Editor 245
Markers 109
MIDI controllers 352
MIDI notes 343
Parts 44
Drop Out Frames 431
Drum Editor
Creating and editing notes 357
Muting drum sounds 358
Selecting drum maps 361
Drum maps
About 359
Making settings 359
MIDI channel and output 361
Selecting 361
Setup dialog 361
Drum name lists 362
Drum Notes
About 616
Adding and Editing 618
Head Pairs 617
Setting Up The Staff 618
Single Line 618
Drum Sound Solo 358
Drumstick tool 357
Duplicate
Events and parts 47
MIDI notes 346
Notes 520
Symbols 569
Using Bar Handles 571
Duplicate tracks 41
Dynamics symbols
Adding 574
Affecting MIDI playback 624
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Edit Active Part Only 338
Edit as Drums when Drum Map is
assigned 337
Edit button
Audio channel strips 133
Audio track Inspector 30
MIDI channel strips 140
MIDI track Inspector 317
Edit Drum Map in Scores 617
Edit In-Place 354
Edit Mode 492
Edit warp 259
Editing via MIDI 348
Edits folder 217
Effect Return channels 173
Elements (Sample Editor) 235
Enable Record on Selected Track 66
Enable Solo on Selected Track 52
Enable Track 63
Ending Symbols 577
Enharmonic Shift
Manual 544
Enlarge Selected Track 37
Envelope
Process 218
Real-time 94
EQ
Bypassing 135
Presets 136
Setting 134
Equal Pitch (Selection) 345
Erase Tool 525, 614
Eraser tool 52
Event as Region 56
Event Envelopes 94
Event Lock Layers 568
Events
Audio 27
Color 41
Duplicating 47
Grouping 50
Locking 51
Moving 46
Muting 52
Overlapping in audio part 266
Overlapping in Project window 47
Removing 52
Renaming 48
Renaming all on track 40
Resizing 49
Resizing with time stretch 50
Selecting 45
Sliding contents
50
Splitting 48
Events (Snap mode) 57
Events from Regions 56
Events to Part 44
Exclusive Solo 130
Explode 510, 536
Export
OMF 457
Export Audio Mixdown 414
Export MIDI files 458
Export Options (MIDI files) 459
Export selected tracks 460
Export Tempo track 399
Exporting the Score as Image
Files 627
External Effects 175