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
AudioWarp
Unstretch Audio 293
Auditioning
Acoustic Feedback 267
Audio Part Editor 296
MIDI editors 381
Pool 306
Project window 58
Sample Editor 267
Speaker tool 267
Using key commands 267, 296
Auto fades
Global settings 122
Track settings 123
Auto Layout
About 672
Hide empty staves 673
Move bars 673
Move staves 673
Auto Quantize 103, 589
Score Editor 414
Auto Save 52
Automation
Auto-Latch mode 236
Cross-Over mode 236
Delta indicator 229
Editing in Project Browser 481
Follow events 234
Merging part and automation
data 241
MIDI Controller 241
Opening automation tracks 232
Showing and hiding 232
SurroundPanner V5 225
Tempo 466
Touch mode 236
Trim 236
Automation curves
Editing 231
Automation events
About 228
Editing 230
Removing 231
Selecting 230
Automation tracks
Assigning parameters to 232
Hiding and showing 233
Muting 234
Auto-Scroll 47
Marker window 140
MIDI editors 380
Project window 47
Sample Editor 263
Score Editor 558
B
Back up Project 52
Backup (.bak) files 52
Bank assignments 359
Bar handles 631, 689
Bar lines
Breaking 674
Indent 670
Moving 670
Selecting type 667
Bar numbers
Offsetting 654
Settings 653
Spacing 653
Bars
Moving 673
Moving to next/previous staff 669
Number across page 669
Resetting spacing 670
Batch export
Audio channels 485
Beams 609
Across staves 611
Appearance 612
Group settings 611
Grouping 608
Manual adjustment 612
On/Off 608
Slant 612
Stem direction 604
Beat Calculator 468
Bezier slurs 624
Bit resolution
Recording 92
Block text 650
Bounce (Export Audio) 485
Bounce MIDI 370
Bounce Selection
Pool 307
Project window 66
Sample Editor 270
Box symbol 637
Braces 672
Bracket heads 607
Brackets 672
Brightness 537
Brillenbass 609
Broadcast Wave files
Exporting 490
Recording 92
Busses
About 26
Adding 28
Child busses 29
Mixing down to file
485
Bypass
AudioWarp 290
Effect sends 197
Inserts 190
Pitch changes 290
SurroundPanner V5 225
C
Channel Overview
Insert effects 191
Channel Settings windows
Customizing 534
Channels
MIDI 100
Chase events 87
Child busses 29
In surround configuration 219
Chord symbols
Global settings 643
Inserting manually 641
Cleanup 53, 522
Clefs
Editing 585
Inserting 584
Moving 585
Selecting automatically 564
Setting initial 562
Setting up 414