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
299 Remote controlling Cubase
300 Introduction
300 Setting Up
301 Operations
302 The Generic Remote device
304 Track Quick Controls
304 Apple Remote (Macintosh only)
305 MIDI realtime parameters and effects
306 Introduction
306 The Inspector – General handling
306 The Inspector sections
310 MIDI effects
313 Managing plug-ins
314 Using MIDI devices
315 Background
315 MIDI devices – general settings and patch handling
320 About Device panels (Cubase only)
323 About Studio Connections (Cubase only)
325 MIDI processing and quantizing
326 Introduction
326 The Quantizing functions
331 Making your settings permanent
332 Dissolve Part
333 Bounce Selection
333 Repeat Loop
333 Other MIDI functions
337 The MIDI editors
338 Introduction
338 Opening a MIDI editor
340 The Key Editor – Overview
342 Key Editor operations
356 The In-Place Editor
358 The Drum Editor – Overview
359 Drum Editor operations
361 Working with drum maps
364 Using drum name lists
365 The List Editor – Overview
365 List Editor operations
368 Working with System Exclusive messages
370 Recording System Exclusive parameter changes
370 Editing System Exclusive messages
372 VST Expression
373 Introduction
374 VST Expression in Cubase
377 Creating and editing Expression Maps
380 The Logical Editor, Transformer and
Input Transformer
381 Introduction
381 Opening the Logical Editor
382 Window overview
382 Setting up filter conditions
386 Selecting a function
387 Specifying actions
389 Applying the defined actions
389 Working with presets
389 The Input Transformer
391 The Project Logical Editor
392 Introduction
392 Opening the Project Logical Editor
392 Window overview
393 Setting up filter conditions
397 Specifying actions
399 Selecting a function
399 Applying Macros
399 Applying the defined actions
399 Working with presets
401 Editing tempo and signature
402 Background
402 Tempo and signature display
404 Editing tempo and signature
406 Process Tempo (Cubase only)
406 The Process Bars dialog (Cubase only)
407 The Beat Calculator
408 Merge Tempo From Tapping
408 The Time Warp tool
413 The Project Browser
414 Window Overview
415 Editing tracks
419 Export Audio Mixdown
420 Introduction
420 Mixing down to audio files
422 The available file formats