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
- The Transpose functions
- The mixer
- Control Room (Cubase only)
- Audio effects
- VST Instruments and Instrument tracks
- Surround sound (Cubase only)
- Automation
- Audio processing and functions
- The Sample Editor
- The Audio Part Editor
- The Pool
- The MediaBay
- Working with Track Presets
- Track Quick Controls
- Remote controlling Cubase
- MIDI realtime parameters and effects
- Using MIDI devices
- MIDI processing and quantizing
- The MIDI editors
- Introduction
- Opening a MIDI editor
- The Key Editor - Overview
- Key Editor operations
- The In-Place Editor
- The Drum Editor - Overview
- Drum Editor operations
- Working with drum maps
- Using drum name lists
- The List Editor - Overview
- List Editor operations
- Working with System Exclusive messages
- Recording System Exclusive parameter changes
- Editing System Exclusive messages
- VST Expression
- The Logical Editor, Transformer and Input Transformer
- The Project Logical Editor
- Editing tempo and signature
- 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
- Playing back and recording
- 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
- Printing from the Score Editor
- Exporting pages as image files
- Working order
- Force update
- Transcribing MIDI recordings
- 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
- Tips and Tricks
- Index
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Table of Contents
10 Part I: Getting into the details
11 About this manual
12 Welcome!
13 VST Connections: Setting up input and
output busses
14 About this chapter
14 Setting up busses
18 Using the busses
20 Setting up Group and FX channels
20 About monitoring
20 External instruments/effects (Cubase only)
25 The Project window
26 Background
28 Window Overview
34 Operations
56 Options
59 Playback and the Transport panel
60 Background
61 Operations
63 Options and Settings
65 The Virtual Keyboard
66 Recording
67 Background
67 Basic recording methods
69 Audio recording specifics
79 MIDI recording specifics
84 Options and Settings
87 Recovery of audio recordings after system failure
88 Fades, crossfades and envelopes
89 Creating fades
91 The Fade dialogs
92 Creating crossfades
93 The Crossfade dialog
94 Auto Fades and Crossfades
95 Event Envelopes
96 The Arranger track
97 Introduction
97 Setting up the Arranger track
98 Working with arranger events
100 Flattening the Arranger chain
101 Live Mode
102 Arranging your music to video
103 The Transpose functions
104 Introduction
104 Transposing your music
107 Other functions
109 The mixer
110 About this chapter
110 Overview
112 Configuring the mixer
116 The audio-related channel strips
117 The MIDI channel strips
117 The input and output channels
117 Basic mixing procedures
121 Audio-specific procedures
128 MIDI-specific procedures
129 Utilities
132 VST Mixer Diagrams
135 Control Room (Cubase only)
136 Background
137 Control Room operations
137 Configuring the Control Room
140 The Control Room Overview
141 The Control Room Mixer
146 Studios and Studio Sends
149 Direct Monitoring and latency
150 Audio effects
151 About this chapter
151 Overview
152 Insert effects
157 Send effects
161 Using the Side-Chain input
163 Using external effects (Cubase only)
163 Editing effects
164 Effect presets
166 Installing and managing effect plug-ins