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Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 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
- Playback and the Transport panel
- Recording
- Quantizing MIDI and audio
- Fades and crossfades
- The arranger track (Cubase Elements only)
- Using markers
- The Mixer
- Audio effects
- VST instruments and instrument tracks
- Automation
- Audio processing and functions
- The Sample Editor
- The Audio Part Editor
- The Pool
- The MediaBay
- Working with track presets
- Remote controlling Cubase
- MIDI realtime parameters
- Using MIDI devices
- MIDI processing
- The MIDI editors
- Introduction
- Opening a MIDI editor
- The Key Editor – Overview
- Key Editor operations
- The Drum Editor – Overview
- Drum Editor operations
- Working with drum maps
- Using drum name lists
- Working with SysEx messages
- Recording SysEx parameter changes
- Editing SysEx messages
- The Score Editor – Overview
- Score Editor operations
- Editing tempo and signature
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- Video
- ReWire (not in Cubase LE)
- File handling
- Customizing
- Key commands
- Index
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The MIDI editors
Handling several parts
When you open a MIDI editor with several parts (or a MIDI
track containing several parts) selected, the editor con-
tains a few functions that make working with multiple parts
easier and more comprehensive:
• The “Currently Edited Part” pop-up menu on the toolbar
lists all parts that are opened in the editor (or all parts on the
track if no parts were selected). Here you can select which
part is active for editing.
When you select a part from the list, it is automatically active and cen-
tered in the note display.
Ö Note that it is also possible to activate a part by select-
ing an event within this part with the Arrow tool.
• The “Edit Active Part Only” button on the toolbar lets
you restrict editing operations to the active part.
For example, if you select “All” from the Select submenu of the Edit menu
with this option activated, only events in the active part will be selected.
Similarly, if you select notes by dragging with the Arrow tool (making a
selection rectangle), only the notes in the active part will be selected.
“Edit Active Part Only” is activated on the toolbar.
• The “Zoom to Event” function on the Zoom submenu of
the Edit menu lets you zoom in on the active part so that it
fills the screen.
• The “Show Part Borders” button on the toolbar lets you
see clearly defined borders for the active part.
When this is activated, all parts except the active one are grayed out,
making the borders easily discernible. In the Key Editor, there are also two
“markers” in the ruler with the name of the active part, marking its begin
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ning and end. These can be moved freely to change the size of the part.
“Show Part Borders” is activated on the toolbar.
• Key commands allow you to cycle between parts (mak-
ing them active).
In the Key Commands dialog – Edit category, you will find two functions for
this: “Activate Next Part” and “Activate Previous Part”. If you assign key
commands to these, you can use them to cycle between parts in the edi
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tors. For further information, see “Setting up key commands” on page 344.