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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Key commands
Editors category
File category
Media category
MIDI category
Navigate category
Snap On/Off [J]
Solo [S]
Split At Cursor [Alt]/[Option]-[X]
Split Range [Shift]-[X]
Toggle Edit Group on
Selected Tracks
[K]
Undo [Ctrl]/[Command]-[Z]
Ungroup [Ctrl]/[Command]-[U]
Unlock [Ctrl]/[Command]-[Shift]-[U]
Unmute Events [Shift]-[U]
Option Key command
Show/Hide Infoview [Ctrl]/[Command]-[I]
Show/Hide Inspector [Alt]/[Option]-[I]
Show/Hide Overview [Alt]/[Option]-[O]
Option Key command
Close [Ctrl]/[Command]-[W]
New [Ctrl]/[Command]-[N]
Open [Ctrl]/[Command]-[O]
Quit [Ctrl]/[Command]-[Q]
Save [Ctrl]/[Command]-[S]
Save As [Ctrl]/[Command]-[Shift]-[S]
Save New Version [Ctrl]/[Command]-[Alt]/[Option]-[S]
Option Key command
Open MediaBay [F5]
Open Mini Browser [F7]
Preview Cycle On/Off [Shift]-Num [/]
Preview Start [Shift]-[Enter]
Preview Stop [Shift]-Num [0]
Search MediaBay [Shift]-[F5]
Toggle Attribute Inspector [Ctrl]/[Command]-[Alt]/[Option]-Num
[6]
Toggle Filters [Ctrl]/[Command]-[Alt]/[Option]-Num
[5]
Option Key command
Toggle Location Tree [Ctrl]/[Command]-[Alt]/[Option]-Num
[4]
Toggle Locations [Ctrl]/[Command]-[Alt]/[Option]-Num
[8]
Toggle Previewer [Ctrl]/[Command]-[Alt]/[Option]-Num
[2]
Option Key command
Show/Hide Controller Lanes [Alt]/[Option]-[L]
Option Key command
Add Down:
Expand/Undo selection in the Project
window to the bottom/ Move se
-
lected event in the Key Editor down
1
octave
[Shift]-[Down Arrow]
Add Left:
Expand/Undo selection in the Project
window/Key Editor to the left
[Shift]-[Left Arrow]
Add Right:
Expand/Undo selection in the Project
window/Key Editor to the right
[Shift]-[Right Arrow]
Add Up:
Expand/Undo selection in the Project
window to the top/Move selected
event in the Key Editor up one octave
[Shift]-[Up Arrow]
Down:
Select next in the Project window/
Move selected event in the Key
Editor one semitone down
[Down Arrow]
Left:
Select next in the Project window/
Key Editor
[Left Arrow]
Right:
Select next in the Project window/
Key Editor
[Right Arrow]
Up:
Select next in the Project window/
Move selected event in the Key
Editor one semitone up
[Up Arrow]
Bottom
Select bottom track in the track list
[End]
Top:
Select top track in the track list
[Home]
Toggle Selection [Ctrl]/[Command]-[Space]
Option Key command