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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Designing your score: additional techniques
Making an indent on one line
• To create an indent, simply drag the first or last bar line
on a staff.
The sizes of all measures are adjusted proportionally.
Before and after dragging the first bar line on the first staff
Making indents on several lines
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the first or last bar
line in a system, all following systems will get the same in-
dent. If you want all lines on all pages to be modified in the
same way, hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the appro-
priate bar line on the first system of the score.
The last bar line in the score
Cubase attempts to move the last bar line and space the
bars on the last line in a sensible way. But you can change
this manually by dragging the last bar line, if you like. To
change the type of the last bar line, double-click it and se-
lect the desired type.
Resetting bar spacing
To reset the bar spacing to standard values for several
lines, proceed as follows:
1. Locate the first line for which you want to reset the bar
spacing, and make one staff in that system active.
2. Select “Number of Bars” from the Advanced Layout
submenu on the Scores menu.
3. Specify the number of bars that you already have on
the line.
4. Click on “This Staff”.
Clicking “All Staves” will reset the lines of all staves in the score, see
“Using the Number of Bars dialog” on page 603.
5. Close the dialog.
The bar spacing is reset for the currently selected staff and all following
staves.
Dragging staves
For the following operations, you can use the Object Se-
lection tool or the Layout tool.
Ö Dragging staves can only be done in Page Mode.
Adding space between two grand staves
1. Locate the first staff in the lower of the two systems
you wish to spread apart.
2. Click just to the left of the first bar line and keep the
mouse button pressed.
The entire staff is selected.
3. Drag downwards until you have reached the desired
distance between the staves and release the mouse button.
Before…
…and after dragging the upper system
Setting the same distance between all grand
staves
1. Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the first staff of the
second system, until you have reached the desired dis-
tance between this and the first system.
2. Release the mouse button.
The distances between all the systems will be adjusted accordingly.
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This operation affects the system you drag and all
following systems.