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
Snap to Zero Crossing
Audio Editor 269
Preference setting 58
Sample Editor 246
Snap Track Heights 37
Solo
Audio Part Editor 267
Folder tracks 104
MIDI editors 342
Mixer 130
On Selected Track 52
Tracks 52
Solo Defeat 130, 174
Solo Record in MIDI Editors 83
Speaker Icon 519
Speaker icon (MIDI editors) 343
Speaker tool
Audio Part Editor 267
Project window 44
Speakers (SurroundPanner) 200
Spectacle Bass 548
Spectrum Analyzer 230
Split
Events 48
Range 56
Split at Cursor
MIDI editors 347
Project window 48
Split Loop
MIDI editors 347
Project window 48
Split MIDI Events 48
Split Note
Explode Function 510, 536
Piano Staff 523
Split Staff
Normal 523
Split Tool 608
Spread Page
About 612
All Pages 612
Square mode
Automation 213
MIDI editing 353
Stacked Cycle Recording
Audio 77
MIDI 82
Staff Mode
Split 523
Staff Names
Displaying 592
Long and Short 592
Staff Options 530
Staff Presets 527
Staff Settings
About
504
Options tab 507
Switching Staves 504
Staff Size 604
Standard Mode 200
Start Record at Left Locator 66
Startup options 452
Static Value Line (Automation) 212
Stationary cursors 58
Statistics 231
Staves
Moving 610
Relation to Tracks 491
Stem Direction
About 542
In Polyphonic Voices 542
Manual Flip 542
Set Note Info dialog 546
Stems Hidden 546
Stems Length 543
Step Bar 62
Step Input 349
Step input 349
Stereo Flip 224
Stereo Pan Law 132
Stereo pan modes 131
Stop after Automatic Punch Out 84
Straighten Up
Activating in Pool 249
Strip Silence 230
Studio Cue Mix 159
Studios (Control Room
Channel) 148, 149
Surround
About 196
Applying plug-ins 202
Exporting to file 202
Positioning sounds 199
Routing to surround channels 199
Setting up 198
Surround Panner 199
Swing 327
Symbol
Length 572
Symbol Inspector
Customizing 558
Symbol Palettes
About 495
Available Symbols 559
Customizing 561
Displaying 559
Moving and Handling 559
Symbols
Adding 563
Adding to Notes
562
Aligning 573
Creating 578
Deleting 573
Duplicating 569
Guitar Chords 566
In Palettes 559
Moving 569
Moving with Keyboard 571
Note Layer Symbols 557
Note-dependent 557
Relation to Staves and Voices 562
Resizing 572
Selecting 568
Sync indicator 427, 429
Sync Project and Mixer Selection 133
Sync Selection 409
Synchronization
About 422
Audio card settings 428
Connections for 425
Formats 422
Frame rates 424
Indicator (Transport
panel) 427, 429
Machine control 429
Options 431
Recording in Sync mode 67
Synchronization Setup dialog 425
Syncing equipment to Cubase 425
To timecode 426
Syncopation 505