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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594 Working with layouts
595 About this chapter
595 Background: Layouts
595 Creating a layout
595 Opening a layout
595 Layout operations
596 Using layouts – an example
597 Marker Track to Form
598 Working with MusicXML
599 Introduction
600 Importing and exporting MusicXML files
602 Designing your score: additional
techniques
603 About this chapter
603 Layout settings
604 Staff size
604 Hiding/showing objects
605 Coloring notes
606 Multiple rests
606 Editing bar lines
607 Creating upbeats
608 Setting the number of bars across the page
609 Moving bar lines
610 Dragging staves
611 Adding brackets and braces
612 Auto Layout
613 Reset Layout
614 Breaking bar lines
615 Scoring for drums
616 About this chapter
616 Background: Drum maps in the Score Editor
616 Setting up the drum map
618 Setting up a staff for drum scoring
618 Entering and editing notes
618 Using “Single Line Drum Staff”
619 Creating tablature
620 About this chapter
620 Creating tablature automatically
621 Creating tablature manually
621 Tablature number appearance
622 Editing
622 Note head shape
623 The score and MIDI playback
624 About this chapter
624 Scores and the Arranger mode
624 The MIDI Meaning function
625 Dynamic crescendo symbols
626 Printing and exporting pages
627 Printing
627 Exporting pages as image files
628 Frequently asked questions
629 How to use this chapter
629 Adding and editing notes
630 Symbols and layout
631 Tips and Tricks
632 Useful editing techniques
633 If you wish you had a faster computer
634 Index