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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Table of Contents
421 Synchronization
422 Background
422 Synchronization signals
423 Synchronizing the transport vs. synchronizing audio
424 Making basic settings and connections
425 Synchronization settings
429 Machine Control
431 Sync Options
431 Working with VST System Link
431 Preparations
434 Activating VST System Link
437 Application examples
439 Video
440 Background
440 Before you start
441 Operations
445 ReWire
446 Introduction
446 Launching and quitting
447 Activating ReWire channels
447 Using the transport and tempo controls
448 How the ReWire channels are handled in Cubase
448 Routing MIDI via ReWire2
448 Considerations and limitations
449 File handling
450 Working with Projects
452 Startup Options
453 Working with libraries (Cubase only)
453 Revert
454 Importing audio
457 Exporting and importing OMF files (Cubase only)
458 Exporting and importing standard MIDI files
460 Exporting and importing MIDI loops
460 Exporting and importing tracks (Cubase only)
461 Other Import/Export functions
461 Cleanup
463 Customizing
464 Background
464 Workspaces
466 The Setup dialogs
467 Customizing track controls
468 About preference presets (Cubase only)
469 Appearance
470 Applying track and event colors
473 Where are the settings stored?
475 Key commands
476 Introduction
476 Setting up key commands
480 Setting up tool modifier keys
480 The default key commands
484 Part II: Score layout and printing
485 How the Score Editor works
486 About this chapter
486 Welcome!
486 How the Score Editor operates
486 MIDI notes vs. score notes
487 Display quantize
489 Entering notes by hand vs. recording notes
490 The basics
491 About this chapter
491 Preparations
491 Opening the Score Editor
491 The project cursor
492 Page Mode
493 Changing the Zoom factor
493 The active staff
493 Making page setup settings
494 Designing your work space
496 About the Score Editor context menus
496 About dialogs in the Score Editor
496 Setting key, clef and time signature
500 Transposing instruments
501 Working order
501 Force update
502 Transcribing MIDI recordings
503 About this chapter
503 About transcription
503 Getting the parts ready
503 Strategies: Preparing parts for score printout
504 Staff settings
504 The Main tab
507 The Options tab
508 The Polyphonic tab
508 The Tablature tab
508 Situations which require additional techniques
509 Inserting display quantize changes
510 Strategies: Adding display quantize changes
510 The Explode function
511 Using “Scores Notes To MIDI”