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Tips and Tricks
There are a number of short rests after my notes.
Your Rests value for Display Quantize might be set to too
small a note value. Raise it. Also check the “Clean Lengths”
setting.
When I change the length of a note, nothing happens.
This is because the Display Quantize value puts a restric-
tion on what note values can be displayed. Check that Dis-
play Quantize is set to the smallest note value you have in
your project.
I have adjusted Display Quantize and the other staff
settings best I can. The notes are still shown with the
wrong values.
You might need to use one of these three features: insert-
ing Display Quantize events, using polyphonic voicing, or
applying “Scores Notes To MIDI”.
In the Score Settings dialog, I change the Display
Quantize settings on the Staff page (Main subpage) and
nothing happens.
Did you remember to click Apply? Maybe you have already
inserted Display Quantize events in the score? These
override the staff settings.
Suddenly many Display Quantize events appear in the
score.
This is not a malfunction. If you had Auto Quantize on and
start inserting Display Quantize events, the auto quantiz-
ing is automatically transformed into Display Quantize
events.
One long note is shown as many tied notes.
Do other notes occur at the same positions but with differ-
ent lengths? Then you need to use polyphonic voicing.
Are the note(s) syncopated? Then you should try the syn
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copation feature.
Even though I’ve tried the above, notes are not tied as I
want them.
The way notes are tied in Cubase follows basic notation
rules. You may need to make exceptions to these rules, by
using the Cut Notes tool.
I have an unnecessarily large amount of rests.
Especially with polyphonic voicing, superfluous rests may
be created. Try deactivating rests for one or more voices.
You might also leave the rests activated in the Score Set-
tings dialog on the Staff page (Polyphonic tab) and then
hide the rests you do not need, one by one.
When using polyphonic voices, a number of rests are
drawn on top of each other.
As above, you should try hiding rests in the Score Settings
dialog on the Staff page (Polyphonic tab), center rests
and possibly manually moving or hiding rests.
In polyphonic voices, notes that are on the same musical
position are not displayed exactly vertically above each
other.
This is not a malfunction. Cubase has built-in automatic al-
gorithms for making the score as legible as possible.
Sometimes this includes adjustments of the “graphic” po-
sition of notes, especially with small intervals like seconds.
You can always move the notes using the Layout tool.
When using polyphonic voices, notes with small intervals
“collide”.
As described above, Cubase tries to avoid this, but only
for voices 1 and 2 in the upper staff and voices 5 and 6 in
the lower. For other voices, please use the Layout tool to
manually move the notes.
When I select a note, nothing is shown on the info line.
The note is probably tied to another note. This means that
the second note does not really exist, it is just a graphic in-
dication that the main note is long. Try selecting the main
note instead.
Symbols from the Layout Symbols tab are sometimes
invisible when I open the score.
This is not a malfunction. Those symbols are part of a lay-
out. If you open the score with another layout, for example
because you open another combination of tracks, you can
see another layout which might not contain any Symbols at
all. See the chapter
“Working with layouts” on page 655 for
details.