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
Preferences
About 69
Presets 69
Transferring 539
Pre-roll 105
Previewing
Track presets 333, 334
Printing
Page setup 559
Scores 418, 566
Processing
About 245
Settings and functions 245
Undoing 254
Project Assistant dialog 49
Project Browser 478
Project cursor 557
Moving 84
Selecting events with 60
Snapping to 47
Project Logical Editor
About 453
Actions 458
Filter conditions 454
Functions 460
Macros 460
Opening 453
Overview 453
Presets 460
Project overview line 44
Project scrubbing 86
Project Setup (dialog) 54
Projects
Activating 50
Archiving 52
Auto Save (command) 52
Backup 52
Creating 49
Opening 50
Reverting to last version 51
Save as Template (command) 51
Saving 50
Template 51
Punch In 91
Punch Out 91
Q
Quantize
Automatic during recording 103
Pitch (VariAudio) 286
Selecting a value 575
Tool 554
Quantize Panel
About 111
Common settings 111
Quantizing to a grid 113
Quantizing to a groove 113
Quantizing
About 109
Audio by warping 110
Audio event starts 110
Auto Apply 112
Catch Range 113
Crossfades section 116
Freeze 111
Key commands 110
MIDI event ends 111
MIDI event lengths 110
MIDI event starts 110
Multiple audio tracks 114
Non-Quantize 111
Original position 114
Pre-Quantize 114
Quantize presets 111
Randomize 112
Reset Quantize 110, 112
Setting on toolbar 109
Slice rules 115
Swing 113
Tuplets 113
Using groove presets 111
Quick Zoom 56
R
RAM 22
Range Selection tool 66
Creating fades 118
Realtime algorithm
About 260
Realtime export 486
Reconstruct 305
Record file type 92
Record folder
Selecting 94
Record format 92
Record modes
Audio 98
MIDI 102
Record Time Max display 107
Record-enabling 90
Recording
From busses 94
Levels 16
RAM limitation 23, 92
Start at left locator 91
Tempo changes 466
Recovering recordings 100
ReCycle files 524
Regions
About 270
Auditioning 271
Create from hitpoints 270, 280
Creating 270
Creating from events 68
Creating with Detect Silence 257
Editing 271
Exporting as audio files 271
Removing 270
Rehearsal Marks 637
Remote control
Accessing user panels 345
Key commands 344
Setting up 343
Writing automation 344
Repeat
Events and parts 62
Loop 370
MIDI notes 385
Reset
Layout 674
MIDI 104
Mixer 162
Quantize 110, 112
VariAudio 290
Rests
Consolidating 590
Creating multi-rests 667
In polyphonic voices 595, 599
Retrospective Record 104