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
MIDI notes
Assigning colors 608
Deleting 386
Display Length 582
Drawing 382
Duplicating 580
Editing velocity 393
Grouping automatically 611
Grouping in score 608
Head shape 606
Insert velocity 383
Ledger lines 607
Moving 384, 579
Moving graphically 614
Muting 386
Muting in Drum Editor 399
Resizing 385
Selecting 383
Selecting in score 578
Splitting 582
Splitting and gluing 386
Transpose (function) 367
Transposing (in editor) 384
MIDI outputs
In drum maps 401
Renaming 101
Selecting for tracks 101
Send effects 354
MIDI parts
About 38
Drawing 75
Editing 375
Editing in Project Browser 480
Showing borders 376
Sliding contents 64
MIDI ports
Setting up 21
MIDI reset 104
MIDI Thru
Activating 100
Preference 20
MIDI timecode
Destinations 499
MIDI tracks
Channel Settings window 166
MIDI Modifiers 350
Settings 349
Missing files
Removing 306
Missing Ports dialog 50
Mixer
Audio channels 155
Channel strip width 151
Channel types 147
, 149
Channel view sets 151
Common panel 149
Extended channel strips 148, 149
Initialize channels 162
Input gain 153
Input phase 153
Input/Output channels 147
Link/Unlink channels 167
MIDI channels 166
Multiple mixer windows 146
Opening 146
Panning 156
Saving settings 163
Solo and Mute 153
View options 150
Volume 152
MMC Master panel 498
Modifier keys 13, 545
Monitor button
Audio tracks 96
MIDI tracks 100
Monitoring
About 19
Modes 96
Mouse Note Position display 575
Mouse Time Position display 575
Moving
MIDI notes in score 579
Objects graphically 614
Staves 670
Tracks to new folder 79
Using key commands 579
MP3 files
Exporting 490
Importing 525
MPEG files 525
MPEX algorithm
About 259
Pitch Shift 249
Multi processing 24
Multi-channel tracks
Export 485
Multi-Rests
Creating 667
Option 664
Settings 667
Splitting 667
Musical Mode
About 272
Adjusting audio loops 272
Pool 272
Musical time base
74
MusicXML
About 660
Exporting 662
Importing 661
Mute
Events in Project window 66
MIDI notes 386
Mixer 153
Pre-Send 197
Surround channels 222
Tool 66
Tracks 66
N
Noise Gate 247
Normalize
Audio effect 248
Note Expression
About 429
Editing data 434
MIDI controllers 429
Overdubbing 432
Recording 432
Recording via MIDI 433
Setting up parameters 430
VST3 controllers 429
Note layer symbols 619
About 619
Adding 622
Note length
Changing in Score Editor 582
Note symbols
Adding 622
Resizing 632