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
512 Entering and editing notes
513 About this chapter
513 Score settings
514 Note values and positions
515 Adding and editing notes
517 Selecting notes
518 Moving notes
520 Duplicating notes
520 Cut, copy and paste
520 Editing pitches of individual notes
521 Changing the length of notes
522 Splitting a note in two
522 Working with the Display Quantize tool
523 Split (piano) staves
523 Strategies: Multiple staves
524 Inserting and editing clefs, keys or time signatures
525 Deleting notes
526 Staff settings
527 About this chapter
527 Staff settings
527 Making settings
527 Working with staff presets
528 Staff names
528 Key and clef
529 Display quantize and interpretation options
529 Display transpose
530 The Options tab
530 The Polyphonic and Tablature tabs
531 Polyphonic voicing
532 About this chapter
532 Background: Polyphonic voicing
533 Setting up the voices
535 Strategies: How many voices do I need?
535 Entering notes into voices
535 Checking which voice a note belongs to
536 Moving notes between voices
537 Handling rests
537 Voices and display quantize
538 Creating crossed voicings
539 Automatic polyphonic voicing – Merge All Staves
540 Converting voices to tracks – Extract Voices
541 Additional note and rest formatting
542 About this chapter
542 Background: Note stems
542 Setting stem direction
543 Stem length
544 Accidentals and enharmonic shift
545 Changing the note head shape
545 Other note details
546 Coloring notes
547 Copying settings between notes
547 Handling beaming
551 About tied notes
552 Graphic moving of notes
553 Cue notes
553 Grace notes
554 Tuplets
556 Working with symbols
557 About this chapter
557 Background: The different layers
558 The symbol Inspector
562 Important! – Symbols, staves and voices
562 Adding symbols to the score
568 Selecting symbols
569 Moving and duplicating symbols
572 Changing length, size and shape
573 Deleting symbols
573 Copy and paste
573 Alignment
574 Symbol details
580 Working with chords
581 About this chapter
581 Inserting Chord symbols
583 Global chord settings
584 Working with text
585 About this chapter
585 Adding and editing text symbols
587 Different types of text
591 Text functions