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
648
Index
Transport panel
Customizing 466
Display format 62
Hiding and showing 61
Key commands 61
Overview 60
Transpose
Info line 34
MIDI function 330
Track parameter 319
Transpose track
About 112
Transposing 520
Transposing instruments 500
Triangle mode
Automation 213
MIDI editing 353
Trills 565
Trim buttons 50
Trim tool 341
Tuplet 327
Tuplets 554
Display Options 555
Group Symbols 575
U
Undo
Processing 227
Recording 74
Zoom 38
Undo Quantize 329
Ungroup 50
Unlock 51
Unlock Layout when editing single
parts 492
Unstretch Audio 261
Upbeats 607
Upd button 501
Update Display 416, 417, 418
Update Origin 272
Use colors for additional
meanings 546
Use Cubase 3 EQ settings as
default 136
Use File Extension in File Dialog 451
Use pop-up menu (Hitpoints) 255
User Panels 31, 132
Audio Tracks 132
On Audio Tracks 31
User Symbols 578
UV22 HR 168
V
Variable Split 534
Velocity
Editing 351
Editing via MIDI 349
Info line 34
MIDI function 334
Velocity Compression 319
Velocity Shift
Track parameter 319
Verses (Lyrics) 588
Video
Extracting audio from 443
Generating thumbnail cache
files 442
Import preferences 441
Importing files 441
Playing back 443
Playing back via FireWire 444
Preparations (Windows) 440
Replacing audio 444
Setting up 441
Video Cache Size 444
Video track
Editing in Project Browser 412
Showing thumbnails 444
Voice Insert buttons 535
Voices
About 532
Converting to Tracks 540
Display Quantize 537
Entering Notes Into 535
Identifying for Notes 535
Moving Notes To 536
Rest Handling 537
Setting Up 533
Stem Direction 542
Volume (Info line) 128
Volume curve 94
Volume handle 89
VST 3
Deactivate plug-in when silence is
detected 163, 189
VST Channel Settings 133
VST Connections 15
VST Instrument tracks
Setting up 183
VST Instruments
Activating 185
Automating 187
Browsing for sounds 190
Channels 184
Freezing 188
Presets for instruments 190
Saving Presets 192
Using VST System Link
437
VST Performance window 142
VST plug-ins
Getting info 180
Installing 179
VST Ports 15
VST Sound
About 284
VST System Link
About 429
Activating 434
Connections 432
Latency 433
MIDI 435
Putting computers online 435
Requirements 431
Setting up sync 432
Settings 433
W
W button 209
Warp tabs
Creating from hitpoints 261
Wave files 416
Wave Image Style 39
Wave64 files 417
Waveform zooming 37
Window layouts 464
Windows Media Audio files
Importing 457
Surround format (Pro) 418