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Working with symbols
2. Select “Open as Palette” from the context menu.
The selected tab will be shown as palette.
Moving and handling palettes
Palettes are handled as any window, which means that
you can:
• Move a palette to another position by dragging its title
bar.
• Close a palette by clicking its close button.
In addition, you can select whether the palette should be
shown horizontally or vertically, by right-clicking and se-
lecting “Toggle” from the context menu.
The available symbols
The following symbols palettes/tabs are available:
•Favourites
•Keys
•Clefs
•Time Sign
•Chord Symbols
•Guitar Symbols
• VST Expression. This is described in the chapter “VST Ex-
pression” on page 372.
•Clef etc.
• Note Symbols
•Dynamics
• Line/Trill. Note that the arpeggios, hand indication and strum
symbols are all “note-dependent”!
• Other
• Layout. All these symbols are drawn in their own “layer”.
• Project. These symbols will be present in all layouts.
• Words. This is described in the section “The Words tab” on
page 587.
• User Symbols. This is described in the section “User Sym-
bols” on page 574.
When you place the mouse pointer on a symbol, a tooltip
shows you information about the function. Further details
about many of the symbols can be found in the section
“Symbol details” on page 570.
Setting up the Favourites tab
In the Symbols Inspector, you will find a tab called Favou-
rites. Cubase allows you to fill this tab with a selection of
symbols from other tabs. This way, you have instant access
to the symbols you use most often:
1. Open the Favourites tab.
If it is the first time you are using this tab, it will be empty.
2. Open the tab from which you want to copy a symbol.
Ö Not all symbols can be placed on the Favourites tab.
3. Right-click on the symbol you want to add to the
Favourites tab and select “Add to Favourites” on the con-
text menu.
You can also add a symbol to the Favourites tab by [Alt]/[Option]-click-
ing on it.
4. Repeat this procedures for other symbols you want to
add to the Favourites tab.
• To remove a symbol from the Favourites tab, select “Re-
move from Favourites” from the context menu or hold
down [Alt]/[Option] and click on it.
Important! – Symbols, staves and
voices
Most symbols belong to a staff when inserted. Only note
symbols, slurs and ties are an exception. They belong to
notes and therefore to voices.
It is extremely important that the correct staff is active
when you insert a symbol (if you are editing multiple
staves).
If you for example insert a symbol while the wrong staff is
active, the symbol might later “disappear” because you edit
another configuration of tracks (the track you actually in-
serted the symbol on might not be opened for editing).
The same is true for note symbols and their relation to
voices. Make sure the correct voice is active when insert-
ing symbols or they might wind up at the wrong position,
fermatas may be turned upside down etc.
Layout symbols work slightly differently. Instead of belong-
ing to a certain staff or voice, they belong to a layout.
Since different track combinations use different layouts,
this means that if you insert a layout symbol in the score
when you are editing two tracks (for example a trumpet