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Staff settings
How staff presets are stored
The staff presets are stored as individual files in the Pre-
sets–Staff Presets folder within the Cubase program
folder. The presets are available for selection in any proj-
ect you create or edit.
Staff names
These fields allow you to specify a “long” and a “short”
name for the staff. The long name is shown for the very
first system for this staff in the score (at the start of the
project), while the short name is shown for the remaining
systems.
• Whether the names are shown at all is set in the Score
Settings dialog, on the Layout page (see “Staff names” on
page 653).
• If you only want the “long name” to be shown (i.e. if you
do not want a name shown for each system in the score),
simply delete the short name.
• If the “Show Long Staff Names on new Pages” option is
activated in the “Staff Names” section of the Score Set
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tings dialog (Project page), the long name is shown at the
beginning of each new page.
• You can also specify two separate subnames by dou-
ble-clicking the staff name and entering them in the upper
and lower text entry fields in the dialog that appears.
Note that this is only displayed correctly, if you are in Page Mode and if
“Show Track Names to Left of staff” is activated in the Score Settings di
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alog, on the Project–Notation Style subpage (Staff Names category).
Key and clef
The basic key and clef settings are described in detail in
the section “Setting clef, key, and time signature” on page
562. There is also a Lower Staff checkbox which is only
used in conjunction with split (piano) staves and poly-
phonic voicing (see “In a split system” on page 564).
• If you want to set a different key symbol, e.g. when scor-
ing for french horn, activate the “Local Keys” option.
Display Quantize and Interpretation
Options
These two sections of the dialog contain a number of set-
tings used to determine how the notes are interpreted.
While these settings are more critical to making MIDI re-
corded music appear as legible as possible it is still impor-
tant to have them set correctly when entering notes using
the mouse. Below you can find descriptions of the set-
tings – for further details, see “Adding Display Quantize
changes” on page 571.
There are “fixed” Display Quantize values plus an “Auto”
option which should only be used when your music con
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tains mixed straight notes and triplets. For background in-
formation about Display Quantize, see “Display Quantize”
on page 553.