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
MediaBay
Browse Selection Presets 279
Browser 276
Context menu search 282
Detail search 280
Filter buttons 280
Media files 274
Scanning operations 277
Scope 283
Search 281
Supported files 274
Tag Editor 284
Tags 284
User tags 286
Viewer 279
VST Sound node 277
Write Protection 287
Melisma Lines 581
Merge All Staves 539
Merge Clipboard 207
Merge MIDI in Loop 331
Merge Record Mode
Audio 75
MIDI 81
Merge Tempo from Tapping 336, 408
Meters
Characteristics 126
Coloring of 475
Input level 71
Peak Hold Time 126
Post-Fader mode 72
Settings 126
Metric Bias 235
Metronome
Activating 85
Precount 85
Settings 85
MIDI
Functions 326
MIDI channel
“Any” 80
In drum maps 362
Selecting for tracks 80
Send effects 311
MIDI Channel Settings 80, 128
MIDI Clock
About 429
Always Send “Start” 431
Transmitting 431
MIDI Clock Follows Project
Position 431
MIDI Controller Automation
Setup 202
MIDI Device Manager 315
MIDI devices
Defining new for patch
selection 316
Editing patches 318
Installing 317
Selecting patches 318
MIDI effects
About 310
Deactivating 313
Inserts 311
Presets 312
Sends 311
MIDI files 464
MIDI Filter 84
MIDI input (Editing via) 349
MIDI Input button 349, 519
MIDI Input Transformer 389
MIDI inputs
Renaming 79
Selecting for tracks 79
MIDI Meaning 618
MIDI Modifiers 307, 326
MIDI notes
Deleting 348
Drawing 344
Editing velocity 352
Moving 347
Muting 348
Muting in Drum Editor 360
Quantizing 326
Resizing 348
Selecting 346
Splitting and gluing 348
Transpose (Function) 330
Transposing (in editor) 347
MIDI outputs
In drum maps 362
Renaming 79
Selecting for tracks 80
Send effects 311
MIDI parts
About 26
Drawing 42
Editing 338
Editing in Project Browser 416
Sliding contents 48
MIDI Record Catch Range 83
MIDI reset 83
MIDI Thru 79
MIDI Timecode Follows Project
Time 432
MIDI tracks
Channel Settings window 128
MIDI Modifiers 307
Settings 306
Minimize Files 270
Mix (Cycle Record mode) 81
Mixer
Common panel 113
Exclusive Solo 119
Extended channel strips 112
Group channels 127
Hiding channel types 114
Input and output busses 117
Input/Output settings 112
Link/Unlink channels 129
Loading settings 130
Multiple mixer windows 111
Pan 120
Saving settings 130
Solo and Mute 119
View options 113
Volume 117
Mixing down to audio file 420
MMC
Setting up 436
Modern Time Signature 599
Modifier keys 12, 483
Modulation
Virtual Keyboard 65
Monitor button
Audio tracks 73
MIDI tracks 79
Monitoring modes 73