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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573 Entering and editing notes
574 About this chapter
574 Score settings
575 Note values and positions
576 Adding and editing notes
578 Selecting notes
579 Moving notes
580 Duplicating notes
580 Cut, copy, and paste
581 Editing pitches of individual notes
582 Changing the length of notes
582 Splitting a note in two
583 Working with the Display Quantize tool
583 Split (piano) staves
583 Strategies: Multiple staves
584 Inserting and editing clefs, keys, or time signatures
585 Deleting notes
586 Staff settings
587 About this chapter
587 Staff settings
587 Making settings
587 Working with staff presets
588 Staff names
588 Key and clef
588 Display Quantize and Interpretation Options
591 Display Transpose
591 The Options tab
592 The Polyphonic tab
592 The Tablature tab
593 Polyphonic voicing
594 About this chapter
594 Background: Polyphonic voicing
595 Setting up the voices
597 Strategies: How many voices do I need?
597 Entering notes into voices
597 Checking which voice a note belongs to
598 Moving notes between voices
599 Handling rests
599 Voices and Display Quantize
600 Creating crossed voicings
601 Automatic polyphonic voicing – Merge All Staves
602 Converting voices to tracks – Extract Voices
603 Additional note and rest formatting
604 About this chapter
604 Background: Note stems
604 Setting stem direction
605 Stem length
606 Accidentals and enharmonic shift
606 Changing the note head shape
607 Other note details
608 Coloring notes
608 Copying settings between notes
608 Handling beaming
612 About tied notes
614 Graphic moving of notes
614 Cue notes
615 Grace notes
616 Tuplets
618 Working with symbols
619 About this chapter
619 Background: The different layers
620 The Symbols Inspector
621 Important! – Symbols, staves, and voices
622 Adding symbols to the score
628 Selecting symbols
629 Moving and duplicating symbols
632 Changing length, size, and shape
633 Deleting symbols
633 Copy and paste
633 Alignment
634 Symbol details
640 Working with chords
641 About this chapter
641 Inserting Chord symbols
643 Global chord settings
645 Working with text
646 About this chapter
646 Adding and editing text symbols
648 Different types of text
652 Text functions