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
System Exclusive
About 391
Bulk Dumps 391
Editing 393
Recording parameter changes 392
System Lines 530
System Sizes (Staff Settings) 530
T
Tablature
Automatic Creation 620
Capo 620
Clef 621
Editing 622
Manual Creation 621
MIDI Channels 620
Number Note Head 621
Talkback (Control Room
Channel) 148, 149, 153
Tap Tempo 401
Templates 451
Tempo
About 395
Calculating 401
Editing 397
Editing in Project Browser 412
Importing and exporting 399
Recording 398
Setting in Fixed mode 399
Tapping 401
Tempo based tracks 42
Tempo Change Symbol 578
Tempo matching audio
loops 247, 252
Tempo record slider 398
Tempo Symbols 577
Text
Adding 585
Aligning 586
Block Text 589
Editing 586
Font, Size and Style 586
Importing from file 589
Lyrics 587
Melisma Lines 585
Page Text 589
Regular 587
Replacing Words 591
Text Attribute Sets
About 586
Creating 586
Using 586
Thin Out Data 335
Ties
About 516, 551
Adding As Symbols 564
Direction 546
Dynamics 572
Flat 552
Shape and Direction 572
Splitting 522
Using the Cut Notes Tool 551
Time based tracks 42
Time display 62
Time format 34
Time Linear
MIDI editors 340
Tempo Track Editor 396
Time Scales 34
Time Signature
Composite 497
Editing 524
For Grouping only 497
Inserting 524
Modern 604
Relation to Tempo Track 497
Setting Initial 496
Time signature 399
Time Stretch 225
Time Warp tool 402
Timecode
About 422
Frame rates 424
Synchronizing to 426
Toggle Track List 42
Tool modifier keys 480
Toolbar
Audio Part Editor 265
Customizing 466
Drum Editor 356
Key Editor 339
List Editor 363
Pool 272
Project window 33
Sample Editor 235
Score Editor 494
Track Archive (importing) 460
Track Control Settings 467
Track list
About 28
Customizing 467
Dividing 42
Track Parameters 319
Track Presets
Extracting sound from 192
Track Quick Controls
About 312
Assigning parameters 312
Controlling the mixer 313
Remote Control setup 314
Removing 313
Renaming 312
Replacing 313
Track types 26
Track/Staff relation 491
Tracks
Adding 40
Audio channel configuration 69
Changing height of 37
Color 41
Disabling/Enabling 63
Freezing 168
Importing and exporting 460
Locking 51
Musical/Linear time base 42
Removing 41
Renaming 40
Selecting 41
Transcription 503
Transfer projects and settings 473
Transfer tracks between projects 460
Transformer (MIDI effect) 368
Transparent events 39
Transport menu
Functions 60
Playback options 64