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
The vertical position of a segment indicates its average
pitch. If the Pitch & Warp tool is active and you move the
mouse pointer over a segment, a piano keyboard is dis
-
played, showing the found pitches.
Furthermore, if you move the mouse pointer over a seg-
ment and the zoom factor is high enough, the average
pitch – note name and fine tuning in cent steps (100ths of
a semitone) – is shown on top of the segment. When you
select a segment, this is also shown in the info line.
Note pitches represent the perceived fundamental fre-
quency of a sound. The note A4 is perceived to be of the
same pitch as a sine wave of 440 Hz. The notation of
pitches is a logarithmic frequency scale. The table below
shows the relation between pitch (note name) and
frequency in Hz:
The average pitch of a segment is calculated from its micro-
pitch curve. Micro-pitch curves represent the progression
of the pitch for the tonal portion of the audio.
The horizontal position of a segment indicates the time
position and the length.
You can navigate through the segments by using the left/
right arrow keys on your computer keyboard.
You can zoom in on the segments that you want to edit by
holding down [Alt]/[Option] while drawing a selection
rectangle. To zoom out, hold down [Alt]/[Option] and click
in an empty area of the waveform. If you hold down [Alt]/
[Option] and double click in an empty area, the display will
be zoomed out to show all segments.
Applying editing, offline processes, and
VariAudio
The following offline processes and edits that affect the
length of the audio file may lead to the reanalysis of the
audio material:
• Options on the Select Process menu, on the Process
tab of the Sample Editor Inspector, or in the Process sub
-
menu of the Audio menu that can be applied to selections.
• Effect processing using the options on the Select Plug-
in menu on the Process tab of the Sample Editor Inspec-
tor or in the Plug-ins submenu of the Audio menu (see the
chapter
“Audio processing and functions” on page 244).
C4 C#4/
Db4
D4 D#4/
Eb4
E4 F4 F#4/
Gb4
261.63 277.18 293.66 311.13 329.63 349.23 369.99
G4 G#4/
Ab4
A4 A#4/
Bb4
B4 C5
392.00 415.30 440.00 466.16 493.88 523.25
…a piano key-
board is shown
in the waveform.
If you move the
mouse over a
segment…
Note name
Fine tuning in cents
Micro-pitch curves