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
427 Synchronization
428 Background
428 Synchronization signals
429 Synchronizing the transport vs. synchronizing audio
430 Making basic settings and connections
431 Synchronization settings
436 Machine Control
437 Sync Options
438 Working with VST System Link
438 Preparations
440 Activating VST System Link
443 Application examples
445 Video
446 Background
446 Before you start
448 Operations
451 ReWire
452 Introduction
452 Launching and quitting
453 Activating ReWire channels
453 Using the transport and tempo controls
454 How the ReWire channels are handled in Cubase
454 Routing MIDI via ReWire2
454 Considerations and limitations
455 File handling
456 Working with Projects
459 Importing audio
462 Exporting and importing OMF files (Cubase only)
464 Exporting and importing standard MIDI files
465 Exporting and importing MIDI loops
466 Exporting and importing tracks (Cubase only)
467 Other Import/Export functions
467 Cleanup
468 Customizing
469 Background
469 Workspaces
471 Using the Setup options
472 Customizing track controls
473 About preference presets (Cubase only)
474 Appearance
475 Applying track and event colors
478 Where are the settings stored?
479 Key commands
480 Introduction
480 Setting up key commands
483 Setting up tool modifier keys
484 The default key commands
487 Part II: Score layout and printing
488 How the Score Editor works
489 About this chapter
489 Welcome!
489 How the Score Editor operates
489 MIDI notes vs. score notes
490 Display Quantize
492 Entering notes by hand vs. recording notes
493 The basics
494 About this chapter
494 Preparations
494 Opening the Score Editor
494 The project cursor
494 Playing back and recording
495 Page Mode
495 Changing the Zoom factor
496 The active staff
496 Making page setup settings
496 Designing your work space
498 About the Score Editor context menus
498 About dialogs in the Score Editor
499 Setting key, clef and time signature
503 Transposing instruments
503 Printing from the Score Editor
503 Exporting pages as image files
504 Working order
504 Force update
505 Transcribing MIDI recordings
506 About this chapter
506 About transcription
506 Getting the parts ready
506 Strategies: Preparing parts for score printout
507 Staff settings
507 Situations which require additional techniques
508 Inserting Display Quantize changes
509 Strategies: Adding Display Quantize changes
509 The Explode function
510 Using “Scores Notes To MIDI”