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
Note-dependent Symbols 557
Notes
Adding 515
Assigning colors 546
Deleting 525
Display Length 522
Duplicating 520
Editing Via MIDI 521
Graphic 546
Graphic moving 552
Grouping 547
Head Shape 545
Info Dialog 543
Ledger lines 545
Length 521
Moving 518
Note Values 514
Selecting 517
Splitting 522
Notes, see also “MIDI notes”
Npl files
Libraries 453
Pool files 282
Nudge buttons
MIDI editor toolbar 346
Project window toolbar 47
Nudge key commands 571
Nudge position buttons 63
Nudging notes 518
Number of Bars dialog 608
Numeric keypad 61
O
Octave Symbols 575
Offline Process History 227
Offset Bar Numbers 593
Ogg Vorbis files
Exporting 418
Importing 457
OMF files 457
On Import Audio Files 44
On Processing Shared Clips 217
On Startup setting 452
Online (VST System Link) 435
O-Note 360
O-Note Conversion 333, 362
Open 450
Open Document Options dialog 453
Open Layout 595
Optimize All 613
Optimize Two/Four Voices 534
Option/Alt key 12
Output (MIDI) 79
Output busses
About 14
Adding 16
Mixing down to file 414
Routing channels to 17
Surround configurations 198
Viewing in the mixer 18
Output channels 128
Outputs (Audio) 15
Over Quantize 328
Overlapping events
Audio Part Editor 266
Project window 47
Overview 40
Overwrite (Cycle Record mode) 81
P
Padlock symbol 51
Page
Selecting 492
Page Mode 492
Page number indicator 492
Page Numbers 589
Page Setup 493
Page Text 589
Pan Law 132
Pan modes 131
Parabola mode
Automation 213
MIDI controllers 352
MIDI velocity 351
Part Data mode 39
Parts, see “Audio parts” or “MIDI
parts”
Paste 520, 573
Paste at Origin 48
Paste Note Attributes 547
Paste Time
MIDI editing 347
Selection ranges 55
Patch Editor (Surround) 202
Peak Hold Time 138
Pedal Symbols 576
Pedals to Note Length 334
Pencil tool 44, 562
Pending Connections 450
Performance meter 142
Phase Reverse 220
Phones (Control Room
Channel) 148, 149
Piano Staff
Fixed Splitpoint 523
Variable Splitpoint 534
Pickup Bar 607
Pitch Bend
Deleting 354
Editing 352
Recording 82
Pitch Shift 221
Play icon
Audio Part Editor 267
Pool 278
Play tool
Audio Part Editor 267
Project window 44
Plug-in delay compensation 164
Plug-in Information window
MIDI plug-ins 323
VST plug-ins 180
Plug-ins
Applying
226
Automating 211
Getting info 180
In surround configurations 202
Installing VST 2.x 179
Organizing 180
Poly Pressure events 354
Polyphonic Presets 534
Polyphonic Voicing 531
About 532
Automatic 539
Display Quantize 537
Entering Notes 535
Identifying Voices for Notes 535
Moving Notes To Voices 536
Presets 534
Rest Handling 537
Setting Up 533
Stem Direction 542
Polyphony (Restricting) 334