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
Tracks
Adding 72
Adding events 74
Audio channel configuration 93
Coloring 72
Default time base 74
Disabling 76
Disabling/Enabling 86
Duplicating 75
Folding 76
Freezing 194
Importing/Exporting 529
Locking 65
Moving 76
Musical/Linear time base 74
Naming 72
Record-enabling 90
Removing 72
Selecting 75
Soloing 66
Transcription 569
Transferring
Projects and settings 539
Transformer (MIDI effect) 441
Transport menu
Functions 83
Playback options 87
Transport panel
Customizing 534
Display format 84
Hiding and showing 83
Key commands 83
Overview 83
Transpose
Info line 44
MIDI function 367
MIDI Modifier 350
Transpose track
About 132
Transposing
Instruments 565
MIDI notes 581
Triangle mode
Automation 230
MIDI editing 391
Trills
Creating 624
Trim buttons 64
Trim tool 380
Tuplets 616
Display Options 617
Group Symbols 636
N-Tuplets 617
Quantizing 113
U
Undo
Processing 254
Recording 98
Ungroup
Events 64
Unlock Record 107
Unstretch Audio 293
Upbeats 668
Update Origin 301
User panels 40
Audio tracks 156
V
VariAudio
About 281
Applying editing 282
Audition 290
Bypass 290
Changing the pitch 285
Changing the timing 288
Editing segments 283
Extract MIDI 291
Quantize Pitch 286
Reset 290
Segments 281
Straighten Pitch 287
Tilting micro-pitch curves 286
Waveform display 281
Velocity
Editing 393
Editing via MIDI 388
Info line 44
MIDI function 372
Velocity compression 351
Velocity shift 351
Verses (Lyrics) 649
Video
Codecs 510
Device Setup 514
Editing 516
Extracting audio from 516
Formats 510
Frame numbers 513
Importing 511
Muting 513
Output devices 511
Playback 514
Replacing audio 516
Scrubbing 515
Thumbnails 513
Video Player window 514
Aspect ratio 515
Setting the video quality 515
Setting the window size 515
Video track
Editing in Project Browser 482
Virtual Keyboard
About 88
Computer keyboard display 88
Description 88
Modulation 88
Note velocity level 88
Octave Offset 88
Piano keyboard display 88
Pitchbend 88
Voices
About
594
Converting to tracks 602
Display Quantize 599
Moving Notes To 598
Volume curve 123
Volume handle 119
VST
Input ports 19
Output ports 19
VST 3
Suspend plug-in
processing 188, 212
VST Audio System 17
VST Channel Settings 158