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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Index
A
Accelerando 610
Accents
Above Staves 622
Above Stems 622
Accidentals
About 606
Distance from note 607
ACID® loops 272
Acoustic Feedback 381
Sample Editor 267
Score Editor 580
VariAudio 290
Activate Project button 50
Adapt (Display Quantize) 589
ADAT Lightpipe 496
Advanced Quantize 110
AES/SPDIF Digital Audio 496
Aftertouch
Deleting 392
Editing 390
Recording 103
AIFF files 489
Algorithms
Sample Editor 271
Time stretching 259
Align
Dynamics 635
Text 647
All MIDI Inputs 21
Appearance 536
General 536
Meters 537
Apple Remote 347
Arranger mode 685
Arranger tracks
Adding 125
Creating a chain 126
Flattening 128
Renaming events 125
Articulations
Auditioning 420
Editing on the controller lane 423
Editing on the info line 423
ASIO
Direct Monitoring 20, 97
ASIO 2.0 20, 97
ASIO driver
DirectX Setup 18
ASIO meter 24
ASIO ports
Use for data only 505
Aspect ratio
Video Player window 515
Attributes
About
323
Defining 326
Editing in the MediaBay 324
Managing lists 326
Marker 140
Audio
Detecting the tempo 473
Record modes 98
Slicing 279
Audio buffer size 23
Audio channels
Copying settings 161
Mixing down to file 485
Saving settings 163
Audio clips
About 245
Creating new versions 302
Definition 58
Deleting 303
Locating events 303
Managing in Pool 302
Opening in the Sample Editor 306
Audio clock
About 496
Audio effects
About 188
Applying 253
Editing 200
External 200
For output busses (Master
inserts) 192
Freezing 194
Inserts 189
Organizing in subfolders 204
Post-fader inserts 189
Pre/Post-fader sends 197
Recording with 98
Saving 201
Selecting presets 201, 214
Sends 196
Surround 218
Tempo sync 189
Using VST System Link 507
Audio events
Create from regions 271
Create parts 75
Definition 58
Editing in Browser 479
Editing in Sample Editor 262
Editing selections 269
Fade handles 118
Making selections 268
Show in Sample Editor 263
Slicing
279
Volume handles 119
Audio files
Adjusting to the project
tempo 273
Converting 309
Deleting permanently 303
Exporting 485
Format for recording 92
Formats 306
Importing into Pool 306
Importing into Project window 74
Locating 305
Minimize size 308
Reconstructing missing 305
Removing missing 306
Audio hardware
Connections 15
Externally clocked 18
Setup application 17
Audio loops
Musical Mode 272
Tempo matching 272
Audio parts
About 38
Creating by gluing events 63
Creating from events 75
Drawing 75
Editing in Audio Part Editor 295
Editing in Project Browser 479
Sliding contents 64