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
L
L Button 517
Lanes
Audio Part Editor 256
Stacked Audio Recording 77
Stacked MIDI Recording 82
Latency
Monitoring 73
VST System Link 439
Layout Layer 556
Symbols 556
Layout Page (Score Settings
dialog) 598
Layout Settings
About 598
Equal Spacing 598
Modern Time Signature 599
Multi-Rests 598
Real Book 598
Size 598
Staff Separators 598
Layout tool 523, 550, 560
Move Notes and Context 550
Move Single Object 550
Layouts
About 591
Creating 591
Export 592
Opening 591
Opening Tracks In 592
Operations 592
Selecting 592
Ledger lines 544
Left locator 62
Legato 333
Length Adjustment 83
Length Compression 308
Length of Notes 520
Length Quantize 345
Level faders 117
Level meters
Input 71
Post-Fader mode 72
Settings 126
LFE amount (Surround) 186
Libraries 271
Line mode
Automation 200
MIDI controllers 353
MIDI velocity 352
Linear Record Mode
Audio 75
MIDI 81
Linear time base
40
Lines To Tracks
Explode Function 509, 536
List Editor
Adding events 366
Editing in the list 366
Editing in the value display 368
Filtering events 367
Masking events 367
Local (Input Transformer) 390
Local Keys 502
Locate when clicked in empty
space 61
Locators 62
Lock 48
Lock button 517
Lock Event Attributes 48
Lock Frames 437
Lock Layers 565
Lock Record
Unlock Record 86
Logical Editor
About 381
Actions 387
Filter conditions 382
Functions 386
Opening 381
Presets 389
Loop
Audio Part Editor 257
MIDI editors 343
Lyrics
About 583
In Voices 584
Inserting Manually 583
Verse 584
Lyrics from Clipboard 584
M
M button 49
Mac OS X
Port activation 15
Port selection 15
Retrieving channel names 15
Machine control
Setting up 436
Macros 481
Magnetic Area 328
Magnetic Cursor (Snap mode) 57
Magnifying Glass tool 35
Main Mix Bus 17
Make Chord Symbols 578
Map Input Bus Metering to Audio
Track (in Direct Monitoring) 73
Marker Track to Form 592
Markers
About 31
Adding in Marker window 55
Drawing on Marker track 55
Editing in Project Browser 418
Editing on Marker track 55
ID numbers 54
Key commands for 55
Marker track 55
Marker window 54
Moving 55
Removing 55
Snapping to 57
Mask function 367
Media files 274
Write protection in MediaBay 287