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
Info line
Changing note length 582
Customizing 534
Drum Editor 397
Editing articulations 423
Editing the note pitch 581
Key Editor 378
Pool 300
Project window 43
Sample Editor 264
Score Editor 560
Score Editor (basic) 411
I-Notes 400
Input busses
About 26
Adding 28
Mixer 147
Input gain
About 153
Setting record level 95
Input levels 16, 94
Input phase
About 153
Input ports 19
Input selection
Multiple audio channels 164
Multiple MIDI channels 101
Input Transformer 450
Inputs
Audio 27
MIDI 100
Insert effect combinations
Saving 203
Insert Silence
Project window 68
Sample Editor 270
Inserts
Audio 189
Bypassing vs. deactivating 190
External inputs 180
MIDI 353
Monitor channels 181
Side-Chain 200
Talkback channel 181
Inspector
Audio tracks 40
Customizing 534
Folder tracks 41
General controls 40
Handling 39
MIDI tracks 349
Subpanels 352
Transpose track 41
Instrument Freeze 211
Instruments
Display Transpose 565
Intensity (Appearance) 537
Interpretation Options 589
J
Jog wheel 86
K
Key (Score Editor)
Editing 585
Inserting changes 584
Setting initial 562
Setting local keys 565
Setting up 414
Key commands
About 542
Conventions 13
Default 546
Importing 545
Loading 544
Markers 143
Modifying 542
Quantize 110
Removing 543
Resetting 545
Searching for 543
Keyboard symbols
Adding 625
L
Lanes
About 76
Audio Part Editor 296
Comping 77
Latency 22
Monitoring 96
VST System Link 502
Layout settings
About 664
Equal spacing 664
Modern time signature 665
Multi-Rests 664
Real Book 664
Size 664
Staff separators 665
Layout tool
Moving clefs 585
Layouts
About 656
Creating 656
Exporting/Importing 657
Opening 656
Using 656
Ledger lines 607
Legato 371
Length
Compression 351
Quantize 382
Level faders 152
Level meters
Input 95
Post-fader mode 95
Settings 162
Level scale
Half-level axis 266
Sample Editor 266
LFE
About 218
SurroundPanner V5 224
Libraries
About 309
Line mode
Automation 230
MIDI controllers 391
MIDI velocity 393
Linear time base 74
List Editor
Adding events 405
Editing in the list 405
Editing in the value display 407
Filter bar 406
Filtering 406
Locators
Setting 85