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
Notes
Editing via MIDI 387, 581
NPL files 309
Nudge buttons 86
MIDI editors 384
Project window 61
Nudge key commands 631
Nudging notes 579
Numeric keypad 83
O
Octave symbols 636
Offline Process History 254
Offline processing
VariAudio 282
Ogg Vorbis files
Exporting 490
Importing 525
OMF files 525
O-Notes 400
Opening projects 50
Output busses
About 26
Adding 28
Default 28
Mixer 147
Mixing down to file 485
Surround 219
Output ports 19
Output selection
Multiple audio channels 164
Multiple MIDI channels 101
Outputs
Audio 27
MIDI 100
Overlapping events
Project window 61
P
Page text 650
Panning
Bypass 158
Multi-channel audio 157
Stereo Pan Law 157
Stereo pan modes 157
Parabola mode
Automation 230
MIDI controllers 391
MIDI velocity 393
Parts
Dissolving (MIDI) 369
Editing the active part only 376
Parts/events in selection range 68
Paste
Events at origin 62
Note attributes 608
Notes in score 580
Symbols in score 633
Paste Time
MIDI editing 385
Selection ranges 68
Patch Banks 359
Pattern banks
Previewing in MediaBay 320
Peak Hold Time (option) 162
Pedal symbols 636
Pedals
To note length 372
Pencil tool 75
MIDI parts 75
Score Editor 622
Phase Reverse 248
Piano staves
Fixed split point 583
Variable split point 596
Pitch & Warp tool
Sample Editor 285
Pitch changes
Disabling in Sample Editor 290
Pitch Shift (function) 249
Pitch shifting
Algorithms 259
Pitchbend
Deleting 392
Editing 390
Recording 103
Play tool
Project window 58
Plug and Play
ASIO devices 17
Plug-in delay compensation 189
Plug-in Information window
MIDI plug-ins 355
VST plug-ins 204
Plug-ins
Applying 253
Getting info 204
Installing VST 2.x
203
Organizing 204
RAM limitation 23, 188
Surround 218
Poly Pressure events 394
Polyphonic voicing
About 594
Automatic 601
Crossed voicings 600
Display Quantize 599
Entering notes 597
Identifying voices for notes 597
Moving notes to voices 598
Presets 596
Rest handling 599
Setting up 595
Stem direction 604
Polyphony
Restricting 372
Pool
About 300
Auditioning 306
Converting files 309
Duplicating clips 302
Handling audio clips 302
Import media files 306
Importing Pool files 309
Locating missing files 305
Record folder 308
Search functions 304
Position cursor 557
Position Info window 630
Position markers
About 139
Post-roll 105
Pre/Post-Crossfade 246
Precount 106
Pre-fader sends 197