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 MIDI editors
The Drum Editor – Overview
The toolbar, status line, info line, and
Inspector
These are much the same as the toolbar, status line, info
line, and Inspector in the Key Editor (see “The Key Editor
– Overview” on page 377), with the following differences:
• The toolbar has a Solo Instrument button that allows
you to mute all sounds except the selected one, see
“Mut-
ing notes and drum sounds” on page 399.
• The Drum Editor has a Drumstick tool (for entering and
removing notes) and a Line tool with various line and curve
modes (for drawing several notes in one go or editing
controller events).
These tools replace the Pencil tool.
• The pitch in the Mouse Note Position display on the sta-
tus line shows is shown as a drum sound name rather than
a note number.
• The Use Global Quantize button allows you to select
which value is used when Snap is activated – the global
quantize value on the toolbar or the individual quantize val-
ues for the drum sounds.
• There is an Insert Length pop-up menu instead of the
Length Quantize pop-up menu.
It is used in much the same way, as described on the following pages.
• There are no Scissors and Glue Tube tools in the Drum
Editor.
• The status line does not contain a chord display.
The drum sound list
The drum sound list lists all drum sounds by name (ac-
cording to the selected drum map or name list – see be-
low), and lets you adjust and manipulate the drum sound
setup in various ways.
The drum sound list for the GM Map
The following settings are available in the drum sound list:
Toolbar
Note
display
Controller
display
Inspector
Drum
map
Info line
Status line
Ruler
Drum
sound list
Column Description
Pitch The actual note number of the drum sound. This is what
links notes on a MIDI track to drum sounds. For example,
with the GM Map, all MIDI notes with the pitch C1 are
mapped to the Bass Drum sound.
Instrument The name of the drum sound.
Quantize This value is used when entering and editing notes as de-
scribed in the sections “Creating and editing notes” on
page 398 and “Moving, duplicating, or repeating notes”
on page 399.