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
Selecting
Events in Project window 59
MIDI notes 383
MIDI notes in score 578
Send effects (Audio) 194
Sends
Disabling 197
Set Note Info dialog 607
Shared copies 62
Shuffle 590
Side-Chain
Drag & drop 200
Using 198
Signal levels 94
Silence 252
Sine mode
Automation 230
MIDI editing 391
Slices
About 276
Creating 279
Slurs
Adding 623
Bezier slurs 624
Inserting 624
Shape and direction 633
Snap
MIDI editors 381
Project window 45
Sample Editor 263
Zero crossings 47
Zero crossings (Sample
Editor) 263
Snap modes 579
Snap point
Setting for clips in Pool 306
Setting in Project window 45
Setting in Sample Editor 268
Snap to Zero Crossing
Audio Part Editor 298
Snap types 46
Solo
Audio Part Editor 296
Folder tracks 79
MIDI editors 380
Mixer 153
Surround channels 222
Tracks 66
Solo Defeat 154
Sound sources
Position in surround field 221
Speaker icon
MIDI editors 381
Score Editor 580
Speaker tool
Audio Part Editor 296
Project window 58
Sample Editor
267
Spectacle bass 609
Spectrum Analyzer 257
Split tool 669
Spliting
Staves 583
Splitting
Events 62
Range 68
Square mode
Automation 230
MIDI editing 391
Staff settings
About 570
Score display 413
Switching staves 587
System sizes 592
Startup options 54
Static value line (automation) 228
Statistics 259
Status line
Drum Editor 397
Key Editor 378
List Editor 404
Project window 43
Score Editor 560
Score Editor (basic) 411
Staves
Active staff 412, 559
Changing the split point 583
Displaying staff names 653
Long and short names 653
Moving 670, 673
Options 591
Presets 587
Size 665
Spacing 689
Split staves 413
Stem direction
About 604
In polyphonic voices 604
Manual flip 604
Set Note Info dialog 607
Step Input 388
Stereo Flip 252
Stereo Pan Law 157
Stereo panning 157
Strip Silence 257
Studio Connections 364
Studio Manager 364
Studio Sends
Adjusting the volume 184
Configuring 182
Cue mix 183
Outputs 185
Surround
About 218
Applying plug-ins 218
Automation 225
Disable speakers 222
Exporting to file 226
Inspector 220
LFE level 220, 224
Mixer 220
Output bus configuration 219
Panning 223
Routing 219
Setup 16
Solo/Mute speakers 222
Supported configurations 218
SurroundPanner V5
About 220
Constant power 226
Suspend Auto-Scroll 47