User manual

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Working with symbols
3. Select “Open as Palette” from the context menu.
The selected tab is shown as palette.
Moving and handling palettes
Palettes are handled as any window, which means that
you can:
• Move a palette to another position by dragging its title
bar.
• Close a palette by clicking its close button.
In addition, you can select whether the palette is shown
horizontally or vertically, by right-clicking and selecting
“Toggle” from the context menu.
The available symbols
The following symbols palettes/tabs are available:
•Favourites
•Keys
•Clefs
• Time Signature
•Chord Symbols
•Guitar Symbols
• Cubase only: Expression Map, see “Expression maps (Cubase
only)” on page 419.
• Dynamics Mapping, see “Working with mapped dynamics” on
page 685.
• Clefs etc.
• Note Symbols
•Dynamics
• Line/Trill. Note that the arpeggios, hand indication and strum
symbols are all “note-dependent”!
• Other
• Layout. All these symbols are drawn in their own “layer”.
• Project. These symbols are present in all layouts.
• Words. This is described in the section “The Words tab” on
page 652.
• User Symbols. This is described in the section “User Sym-
bols” on page 638.
When you place the mouse pointer on a symbol, a tooltip
shows you information about the function. Further details
about many of the symbols can be found in the section
“Symbol details” on page 634.
Setting up the Favourites tab
In the Symbols Inspector, you can find a tab called Favou-
rites. Cubase allows you to fill this tab with a selection of
symbols from other tabs. This way, you have instant ac-
cess to the symbols you use often:
1. Open the Favourites tab.
If it is the first time you are using this tab, it is empty.
2. Open the tab from which you want to copy a symbol.
Ö Not all symbols can be placed on the Favourites tab.
3. Right-click on the symbol that you want to add to the
Favourites tab and select “Add to Favourites” on the con-
text menu.
You can also add a symbol to the Favourites tab by [Alt]/[Option]-clicking
on it.
4. Repeat this procedures for other symbols that you
want to add to the Favourites tab.
• To remove a symbol from the Favourites tab, select “Re-
move from Favourites” from the context menu or hold down
[Alt]/[Option] and click on it.
Important! – Symbols, staves, and
voices
Most symbols belong to a staff when inserted. Only note
symbols, slurs and ties are an exception. They belong to
notes and therefore to voices.
It is extremely important that the correct staff is active when
you insert a symbol (if you are editing multiple staves).
If you for example insert a symbol while the wrong staff is
active, the symbol might later “disappear” because you
edit another configuration of tracks (the track you actually
inserted the symbol on might not be opened for editing).
The same is true for note symbols and their relation to
voices. Make sure that the correct voice is active when in
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serting symbols or they might wind up at the wrong posi-
tion, fermatas may be turned upside down, etc.