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
MIDI inputs
Renaming 79
Selecting for tracks 79
MIDI Meaning 624
MIDI notes
Deleting 348
Drawing 343
Editing velocity 351
Moving 346
Muting 347
Muting in Drum Editor 358
Quantizing 325
Resizing 347
Selecting 345
Splitting and gluing 347
Transpose (Function) 330
Transposing (in editor) 346
MIDI outputs
In drum maps 361
Renaming 79
Selecting for tracks 80
Send effects 322
MIDI parts
About 26
Drawing 44
Editing 337
Editing in Project Browser 411
Sliding contents 50
MIDI Record Catch Range 83
MIDI reset 83
MIDI Thru 79
MIDI Timecode Follows Project
Time 425
MIDI tracks
Channel Settings window 140
Settings 317
Track Parameters 319
Minimize Files 281
Mix (Cycle Record mode) 81
Mixer
Common panel 127
Extended channel strips 122
Group channels 138
Hiding channel types 124
Input and output busses 128
Input/Output settings 122
Link/Unlink channels 140
Loading settings 142
Multiple mixer windows 120
Pan 131
Saving settings 141
Solo and Mute 130
View options 122
Volume 128
Mixing down to an audio file 414
MMC
Setting up 429
Modern Time Signature 604
Modifier keys 12, 480
Monitor button
Audio tracks 72
MIDI tracks 79
Monitoring modes 72
Monitors (Control Room
Channel) 148, 149, 153
Mouse Position Box 514
Move Bars
About 612
All Pages 612
Move Bars and Staves 612
Move Controller
(Quantize setting) 328
Move Hitpoints 256
Move Staves
About 612
All Pages 612
Move to Back/Front 47
Move to Cursor 46
Move to Next/Prev. Page 492, 611
Move to Origin 46
Moving
Between Voices 536
Notes 518
Objects graphically using the
computer keyboard 552
Staves 610
Symbols 569
Using Bar Handles 571
Using key commands 518
MP3 files
Exporting 417
Importing 457
MPEG files
Audio 457
MPEX
Pitch Shift 221
Time Stretch 226
Multi-Rests
Creating 606
Option 603
Settings 606
Splitting 606
Musical time base 42
MusicXML
Description 599
Exporting 601
Importing 600
Mute
Events in Project window 52
MIDI notes 347
Mixer 130
Pre-Send 172
Tool 52
Tracks 52
N
New Project 35
No Beams 507
No Flag/Beam 546
No Overlap 506
No Stems 546
Noise Gate 220
Non Quantize setting 328
Non-modal dialogs 496
Normal Record Mode
Audio 74
MIDI 81
Normal Sizing 49
Normalize
Audio process 220
Surround Panner 202
Note Layer 557
Note Layer Symbols 557
About 557
Adding 562
Note Symbols
Adding 562
Affecting MIDI playback 624
Note symbols
Size 572
Note Values 514
Note Velocity Slider 344