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
Line mode
Automation 213
MIDI controllers 352
MIDI velocity 351
Linear Record Mode
Audio 74
MIDI 81
Linear time base 42
Lines To Tracks
Explode Function 510, 536
List Editor
Adding events 364
Editing in the list 364
Editing in the value display 366
Filtering events 365
Masking events 365
Local (Input Transformer) 377
Local Keys 500
Locate when clicked in empty
space 61
Locators 62
Lock 51
Lock button 519
Lock Event Attributes 51
Lock Frames 431
Lock Hitpoints 256
Lock Layers 568
Logical Editor
About 368
Actions 375
Filter conditions 369
Functions 374
Opening 368
Presets 369, 377
Loop
Audio Part Editor 267
MIDI editors 342
Loop icon
Audio Part Editor 267
Pool 278
Sample Editor 240
Lyrics
About 587
In Voices 588
Inserting Manually 587
Verse 588
Lyrics from Clipboard 588
M
M button 52
Machine control
Setting up 429
Macros 478
Magnetic Area 327
Magnetic Cursor (Snap mode) 57
Magnifying Glass tool 36
Main Mix Bus 17
Make Chord Symbol 582
Map Input Bus Metering to Audio
Track (in Direct Monitoring) 73
Marker Track to Form 597
Markers
About 107
Adding in Marker window 107
Drawing on Marker track 109
Editing in Project Browser 412
Editing on Marker track 109
ID numbers 108
Key commands for 110
Marker track 108
Marker window 107
Moving 108
Removing 107
Snapping to 57
Mask function 365
Media files 288
MediaBay
About the Browser 289
About the Scope 295
About the Tag Editor 296
About the Viewer 292
Category search 294
Detail search 293
Favorites 291
Filter buttons 292
Media files 288
Scanning operations 290
Supported files 288
Tags 296
User tags 298
VST Sound node 291
Melisma Lines 585
Merge All Staves 539
Merge Clipboard 219
Merge MIDI in Loop 331
Merge Record Mode
Audio 74
MIDI 81
Merge Tempo from Tapping 335, 402
Meters
Characteristics 137
Coloring of
470
Input 71
Input mode 71
Peak’s Hold Time 138
Post-Fader mode 71
Settings 137
Metric Bias 255
Metronome
Activating 85
Precount 85
Settings 85
MIDI
Functions vs. track parameters 325
MIDI channel
"Any" 80
In drum maps 361
Selecting for tracks 80
Send effects 322
MIDI Channel Settings 80, 140
MIDI Clock
About 423
Always Send “Start” 425
Transmitting 425
MIDI Clock Follows Project
Position 425
MIDI connector button 348
MIDI Controller Input to Automation
Tracks 209
MIDI effects
About 321
Deactivating 323
Inserts 321
Presets 322
Sends 322
MIDI files 458
MIDI Filter 84
MIDI input (Editing via) 348
MIDI Input Button 521
MIDI Input Transformer 377