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
F
Fade handles 118
Fade In/Out functions 119
Fades
Auto fades 122
Creating 118
Editing in dialog 120
Presets 120
Processing 119
Removing 119
With Range Selection tool 118
Fill Loop 62
Filter bar
List Editor 404
Filtering
MIDI in Project Browser 481
MIDI messages 105
FireWire DV Output 511
Fit Page/Width 558
Fixed Lengths 371
Fixed Stem Length 592
Fixed Tempo 463
Fixed Velocity 373
Flat Ties 614
Flip
Crescendo 635
Slurs and Ties 633
Stems 417, 604
Folder parts 79
Folder tracks
Creating 79
Group editing 80
Hiding/showing data 79
Moving tracks into 79
Muting and soloing 79
Working with 79
Fonts 654
Score 647
Frame count 495
Frame rates
Mismatch 512
Synchronization 495
Video 512
Free Warp
About 275
Freeze
Edits 255
MIDI Quantize 111
Tracks 194
VST instruments 211
FX channel tracks
About 194
Adding effects for 195
Mixing down to file 485
Routing sends to 196
Setting up 29, 195
G
Gain 247
Generic Remote Device 345
Glue tool
MIDI editors 386
Project window 63
Score Editor 417
Gluing staves 669
Grace notes
Converting to normal 616
Creating manually 615
Order of 690
Settings 615
Groove quantizing 111
Group channels 165
About 37
Setting up 29
Using effects 193
Grouping
Events 64
Removing in score 610
Repeats 609
Grouping notes
Accelerando 610
Beam 609
Brillenbass 609
Ritardando 610
Guitar chord symbols 625
Guitar library 626
H
Hard disk
Considerations 23
Hardware setup
Control panel (Mac) 18
Control panel (Win) 18
Hiding
Empty staves 673
Objects 666
Pedal markers 636
Hitpoints
About 276
And tempo settings 279
Beats pop-up menu 277
Create events 280
Create markers 280
Create regions 270, 280
Detecting 277
Filtering 277
Slicing audio 279
I
Image files
Inserting in Score Editor 627
Importing
Audio CDs 307
Audio from video file 524
Markers 143
Markers as track archive 144
Media files in Pool 306
MIDI files 527
MPEG files 525
Ogg Vorbis files 525
OMF 525
REX files 524
Tempo track 467
Track archives 529
Video files 511
WMA files 525
Independent track loop
Audio Part Editor 297
MIDI editors 381
Indicate Transpositions 135