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
640
Index
Independent track loop
Audio Part Editor 267
MIDI editors 342
Indicate Transpositions 115
Info Line 494, 521
Info line
Customizing 466
Drum Editor 356
Key Editor 339
Pool 272
Project window 33
Inhibit Restart 431
Initialize Channel 137
I-Note 360
Input (MIDI) 79
Input busses
About 14
Adding 16
Routing to channels 17
Viewing in the mixer 18
Input channels 128
Input Gain
About 129
Setting record level 71
Input levels 70
Input Phase switch 129
Input Transformer 377
Input/Output routing panel
(Mixer) 122
Inputs (Audio) 15
Insert buttons 535
Insert effect combinations
Saving 178
Insert effects (Audio) 164
Insert into Project 276
Insert pop-up menu 364
Insert Silence
Project window 56
Sample Editor 243
Insert Slur 564
Insert Velocity (MIDI Editors) 344
Insert velocity (MIDI Editors) 344
Inserts
Bypassing vs. deactivating 165
Inserts drag&drop
Sidechain 175
Inspector
Audio tracks 31
Customizing 466
Folder tracks 32
General controls 30
Handling 29
MIDI tracks 316
sub-panels 318
Transpose track
32
Instrument Freeze 188
Intensity (Appearance) 469, 470
Interpolate Audio Images 240
Interpretation options 505, 529
Iterative Quantize 328
J
Jog wheel 63
Jump tempo curve mode 397
K
Keep Crescendi Horizontal 575
Keep Last
Audio cycle recording 75
MIDI cycle recording 81
Keep Moved Notes within Key 518
Key
Editing 524
Inserting Changes 524
Setting Initial 496
Key commands
About 476
Alternative Key Sets 480
Conventions 12
Default 479
Importing 479
List of default commands 480
Loading 479
Modifying 476
Removing 478
Resetting to default 479
Searching for 477
Keyboard Input button 515
Keyboard Symbol 565
L
L Button 519
Lanes
Audio Part Editor 266
Stacked Audio Recording 77
Stacked MIDI Recording 82
Latency
Monitoring 72
VST System Link 433
Layout
Export 596
Layout Layer 557
Layout Layer Symbols 557
Layout Page (Score Settings
dialog) 603
Layout Settings
About 603
Equal Spacing 603
Modern Time Signature 604
Multi-Rests 603
Real Book 603
Size 603
Staff Separators 604
Layout tool 525, 552, 564
Layouts
About 595
Creating 595
Opening 595
Opening Tracks In 596
Operations 596
Selecting 596
Ledger lines 545
Left locator 62
Legato 333
Length Adjustment 83
Length Compression 319
Length of Notes 521
Length Quantize 344
Level faders 128
Level meters
Input mode 71
Post-Fader mode 71
Settings 137
LFE amount (Surround) 201
Libraries 453