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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Table of Contents
117 Fades, crossfades and envelopes
118 Creating fades
120 The Fade dialogs
121 Creating crossfades
121 The Crossfade dialog
122 Auto fades and crossfades
123 Event envelopes
124 The arranger track
125 Introduction
125 Setting up the arranger track
126 Working with arranger events
128 Flattening the arranger chain
129 Live mode
130 Arranging your music to video
131 The transpose functions
132 Introduction
132 Transposing your music
135 Other functions
138 Using markers
139 Introduction
139 The Marker window
141 The marker track
143 Marker key commands
143 Exporting and importing markers
145 The Mixer
146 Overview
148 Configuring the Mixer
152 Basic mixing procedures
155 Audio-specific procedures
164 Routing
166 MIDI-specific procedures
167 Utilities
169 VST Mixer Diagrams
172 Control Room (Cubase only)
173 Virtual Control Room – The concept
173 Configuring the Control Room
177 The Control Room Mixer
182 Studios and Studio Sends
185 The Control Room Overview
186 Direct Monitoring and latency
187 Audio effects
188 About this chapter
188 Overview
189 Insert effects
194 Send effects
198 Using the side-chain input
200 Using external effects (Cubase only)
200 Editing effects
200 Effect presets
203 Installing and managing effect plug-ins
206 VST instruments and instrument
tracks
207 Introduction
207 VST instrument channels vs. instrument tracks
207 VST instrument channels
209 Instrument tracks
211 What do I need? Instrument channel or instrument
track?
211 Instrument Freeze
212 VST instruments and processor load
212 Using presets for VSTi configuration
215 About latency
216 External instruments (Cubase only)
217 Surround sound (Cubase only)
218 Introduction
219 Preparations
220 Using the SurroundPanner V5
226 Exporting a surround mix
227 Automation
228 Introduction
228 Working with automation curves
228 Enabling and disabling the writing of automation
data
229 Writing automation data
230 Editing automation events
232 Automation track operations
235 The Automation panel (Cubase only)
241 Automation Preferences
241 Hints and further options
241 MIDI controller automation