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
169 VST Instruments and Instrument
tracks
170 Introduction
170 VST Instrument channels vs. instrument tracks
170 VST Instrument channels
172 Instrument tracks
174 What do I need? Instrument channel or Instrument
track?
174 Instrument Freeze
175 VST instruments and processor load
175 Using presets for VSTi configuration
178 About latency
179 External instruments (Cubase only)
180 Surround sound (Cubase only)
181 Background
182 Operations
188 Automation
189 Introduction
189 Enabling and disabling the writing of automation
data
190 What can be automated?
191 The Automation panel
191 Automation modes
193 Automation performance utilities
195 The Settings section
196 Hints and further options
196 Automation track operations
199 Working with automation curves
202 MIDI Controller automation
204 Audio processing and functions
205 Background
205 Audio processing
213 Applying plug-ins (Cubase only)
214 The Offline Process History dialog
215 Freeze Edits
216 Detect Silence
217 The Spectrum Analyzer (Cubase only)
218 Statistics (Cubase only)
219 The Sample Editor
220 Background
221 Window overview
224 General Operations
230 Options and settings
231 AudioWarp: Tempo matching audio
234 Working with hitpoints and slices
238 Free Warp
241 Flattening the realtime processing
243 VariAudio (Cubase only)
254 The Audio Part Editor
255 Background
255 Opening the Audio Part Editor
255 Window overview
257 Operations
258 Common methods
259 Options and Settings
260 The Pool
261 Background
261 Window overview
263 Operations
273 The MediaBay
274 Introduction
276 Window overview
276 Browsing for media files
279 Finding files in the Viewer section
283 Previewing files in the Scope section
284 The Tag Editor (Cubase only)
288 Working with Track Presets
289 Introduction
289 Types of track presets
290 Applying track presets
292 Creating a track preset
293 Creating tracks from track presets or VST presets
293 Previewing MIDI, instrument and VST presets
independently of tracks
295 Track Quick Controls
296 Introduction
296 Setting up the Quick Controls tab
297 Setting up quick controls on an external remote
controller
298 Quick controls and automatable parameters