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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Index
Event Envelopes 95
Event Lock Layers 565
Events
Audio 27
Color 39
Duplicating 45
Grouping 48
Locking 48
Moving 44
Muting 49
Overlapping in audio part 256
Overlapping in Project window 44
Removing 49
Renaming 46
Renaming all on track 39
Resizing 46
Resizing with time stretch 47
Selecting 43
Sliding contents 48
Splitting 46
Events (Snap mode) 57
Events from Regions 53
Events to Part 42
Explode 509, 536
Export
OMF 462
Export Audio Mixdown 420
Export MIDI files 464
Export Options (MIDI files) 464
Export selected tracks 466
Export Tempo track 405
Exporting the Score as Image
Files 503
Expression Maps
Creating 377
Loading 374
External Effects 163
External effects
About 20
Favorites 23
Freezing 24
Missing plug-ins 23
Setting up 21
External Inputs (Control Room
Channel) 137, 139, 144
External instruments
About 20
Favorites 23
Freezing 24
Missing plug-ins 23
Setting up 22
Extract Audio from Video 461
Extract MIDI (VariAudio) 252
Just Notes and no Pitchbend
Data 253
Extract MIDI Automation 336
Extract Voices 539
F
Fade handles 89
Fade In/Out functions 90
Faders 117
Fades
Auto Fades 94
Creating 89
Editing in dialog 91
Presets 91
Processing 90
Removing 90
Fill Loop 45
Filter (MIDI) 84
Filter (Project Browser) 417
Filter bar 367, 497, 498
Find and Replace 587
Find missing files 267
Find Selected in Pool 265
FireWire 448
Fit Page/Width 495
Fixed Lengths 334
Fixed Stem Length 530
Fixed tempo 402
Fixed Velocity 335
Flat Beams 529
Flat Ties 550
Flip
Crescendo 572
Slurs and Ties 569
Stems 541
Folder parts 53
Folder tracks
Moving tracks into 53
Muting and soloing 53
Fonts 582, 589
For Grouping Only 500, 546
Force Update 504
Frame rates 430
Free Warp 238
Freeze Edits 215
Freeze Quantize 330
Freeze Tracks 156
Freeze VST Instruments 174
FX channel tracks
About 157
Adding effects for 158
Mixing down to file 420
Routing sends to 159
Setting up 157
Soloing
161
G
Gain 207
Generic Remote Device 302
Get Form 592
Global (Input Transformer) 390
Global Staff Spacing 621
Global Text 585
Glue Tool 520, 603
MIDI editors 348
Project window 46
Grace Notes
Converting to Normal 552
Creating Manually 552
Order of 622
Settings 552
Graphic Note Type 544
Grid (Snap mode) 56
Grid Relative (Snap mode) 56
Groove Quantize
From audio 237
Group 48
Group channel tracks
About 26
Routing audio to 127
Using effects 156
Group Notes Icon 546
Grouping
Automatic 547
Removing 547
Repeats 546










