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
590 Working with layouts
591 About this chapter
591 Background: Layouts
591 Creating a layout
591 Opening a layout
591 Layout operations
592 Using layouts – an example
592 Marker Track to Form
593 Working with MusicXML
594 Introduction
595 Importing and exporting MusicXML files
597 Designing your score: additional
techniques
598 About this chapter
598 Layout settings
599 Staff size
599 Hiding/showing objects
600 Coloring notes
600 Multiple rests
601 Editing bar lines
602 Creating upbeats
602 Setting the number of bars across the page
603 Moving bar lines
604 Dragging staves
605 Adding brackets and braces
606 Auto Layout
607 Reset Layout
608 Breaking bar lines
609 Scoring for drums
610 About this chapter
610 Background: Drum maps in the Score Editor
610 Setting up the drum map
612 Setting up a staff for drum scoring
612 Entering and editing notes
612 Using “Single Line Drum Staff”
613 Creating tablature
614 About this chapter
614 Creating tablature automatically
615 Creating tablature manually
615 Tablature number appearance
615 Editing
616 Note head shape
617 The score and MIDI playback
618 About this chapter
618 Scores and the Arranger mode
618 The MIDI Meaning function
619 Dynamic crescendo symbols
620 Tips and Tricks
621 Overview
621 Useful editing techniques
622 Frequently asked questions
624 If you wish you had a faster computer
625 Index