User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Part I: Getting into the details
- About this manual
- Setting up your system
- VST Connections
- The Project window
- Working with projects
- Creating new projects
- Opening projects
- Closing projects
- Saving projects
- The Archive and Backup functions
- Startup Options
- The Project Setup dialog
- Zoom and view options
- Audio handling
- Auditioning audio parts and events
- Scrubbing audio
- Editing parts and events
- Range editing
- Region operations
- The Edit History dialog
- The Preferences dialog
- Working with tracks and lanes
- Playback and the Transport panel
- Recording
- Quantizing MIDI and audio
- Fades, crossfades and envelopes
- The arranger track
- The transpose functions
- Using markers
- 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
- Introduction
- Working with the MediaBay
- The Define Locations section
- The Locations section
- The Results list
- Previewing files
- The Filters section
- The Attribute Inspector
- The Loop Browser, Sound Browser, and Mini Browser windows
- Preferences
- Key commands
- Working with MediaBay-related windows
- Working with Volume databases
- Working with track presets
- Track Quick Controls
- Remote controlling Cubase
- MIDI realtime parameters and effects
- Using MIDI devices
- MIDI processing
- 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 SysEx messages
- Recording SysEx parameter changes
- Editing SysEx messages
- The basic Score Editor – Overview
- Score Editor operations
- Expression maps (Cubase only)
- Note Expression (Cubase only)
- The Logical Editor, Transformer, and Input Transformer
- The Project Logical Editor (Cubase only)
- Editing tempo and signature
- The Project Browser (Cubase only)
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- Video
- ReWire
- File handling
- Customizing
- Key commands
- Part II: Score layout and printing (Cubase only)
- 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 clef, key, 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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The Sample Editor
Musical Mode
Musical Mode allows you to lock audio clips to the project
tempo by using realtime time stretching. This is very useful
if you want to use audio in your project without worrying
too much about timing.
If you want to use Musical Mode, verify that the length in
bars corresponds to the audio file you imported. If neces
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sary, listen to your audio and enter the correct length in
bars and beats.
When Musical Mode is activated, audio events will adapt
to any tempo changes in Cubase, just like MIDI events.
You can activate Musical Mode on the AudioWarp tab, the Definition
tab, and the toolbar.
Ö It is also possible to activate/deactivate Musical Mode
from within the Pool by clicking the corresponding check-
box in the Musical Mode column.
Warping audio
Warping is a term used to describe the realtime time
stretching of a selected section of audio. Warping is gen-
erally used to correct the tempo or timing of audio.
Adjusting loops to the project tempo using
Musical Mode
Audio loops are normally short audio files containing a de-
fined number of bars with straight beats. These loops can
be adjusted to the project tempo by using the Musical
Mode function. Proceed as follows:
1. Import an audio loop into a project and double-click it
to open the Sample Editor.
If you open the Definition tab and take a look at the rulers, you will see
that the project tempo grid (upper ruler) and the grid of your audio (lower
ruler) do not match.
2. From the Algorithm pop-up menu on the toolbar, se-
lect the algorithm preset to be applied during realtime
playback.
For details about the available options on the submenus, see “About time
stretch and pitch shift algorithms” on page 259.
3. Listen to the loop and, if necessary, correct the Bars
and Beats values on the toolbar.
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Cubase supports ACID® loops. These loops are
standard audio files but with embedded tempo/length
information. When ACID® files are imported into Cu-
base, Musical Mode is automatically activated and the
loops will adapt to the project tempo.