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
Swing
Quantizing 113
Sample Editor 275
Symbol palettes
About 560
Available symbols 621
Customizing 621
Displaying 620
Moving and handling 621
Symbols Inspector
Customizing 620
Sync Selection 479
Synchronization
About 494
Operation (Sync mode) 500
Recording in Sync mode 91
Setting up 496
Speed references 496
Timecode 494
Timecode preferences 497
Timecode source 497
System Exclusive
About 407
Bulk Dumps 407
Editing 409
Recording parameter
changes 409
T
Tablature
Automatic Creation 681
Capo 681
Clef 682
Editing 683
Manual creation 682
MIDI channels 681
Tap Tempo 468
Templates 51
Default 51
Tempo
About 463
Analyzing 474
Calculating 468
Correcting the detected
tempo 474
Detection 473
Editing 465
Editing in Project Browser 482
Importing and exporting 467
Matching audio to tempo 272
Setting in Fixed mode 466
Symbols 638
Tapping 468
Write definition to files 476
Tempo changes
Recording 466
Tempo editing
Process bars 467
Process tempo 467
Text
Adding 646
Aligning 647
Block text 650
Editing 647
Font, size and style 647
Importing from file 650
Lyrics 648
Regular 648
Text Attribute Sets
About 647
Creating 647
Using 647
Thumbnails
About 513
Thumbnail cache files 513
Ties
About 577, 612
Adding as symbols 623
Cut Notes tool 613
Direction 607
Dynamics 632
Flat 614
Shape and direction 633
Splitting 582
Time display 84
Time formats 44
Time signature
Editing 585
Inserting 584
Modern 665
Time signatures
About 463
Composite 563
Editing 466
For grouping 563
Setting initial 562
Signature track/Tempo Track
Editor 563
Time stretch (function) 252
Time stretching
Algorithms 259
Time Warp tool 469
Timecode
Standards 495
Synchronization 494
Tool modifier keys 545
Toolbar
Audio Part Editor 295
Customizing 534
Drum Editor 397
Key Editor 377
List Editor 404
Pool 300
Project window 42
Sample Editor 263
Score Editor 411
Track archives
Importing 529
Track controls
Customizing 535
Track list
About 39
Customizing 535
Dividing 81
Track presets
Previewing 333, 334
Removing 333
Track Quick Controls 347
About 338
Assigning parameters 339
Controlling the Mixer 340
Remote control setup 339
Removing 339
Renaming 339
Replacing 339
Track types 37