User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Getting into the details
- 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
- 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
- Introduction
- Quantizing Audio Event Starts
- AudioWarp Quantize (Cubase Only)
- Quantizing MIDI Event Starts
- Quantizing MIDI Event Lengths
- Quantizing MIDI Event Ends
- Quantizing Multiple Audio Tracks (Cubase Only)
- AudioWarp Quantizing Multiple Audio Tracks (Cubase Only)
- The Quantize Panel
- Additional Quantizing Functions
- Fades, crossfades, and envelopes
- The arranger track
- The transpose functions
- Using markers
- The MixConsole
- Overview
- Configuring the MixConsole
- Keyboard Navigation in the MixConsole
- Working with the Fader Section
- Working with the Channel Racks
- Linking Channels (Cubase only)
- Metering (Cubase only)
- Using Channel Settings
- Saving and Loading Selected Channel Settings
- Resetting MixConsole Channels
- Adding Pictures
- Adding Notes
- The 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
- Working with the Chord Functions
- Introduction
- The Chord Track
- The Chord Track Inspector Section
- The Chord Editor
- The Chord Assistant (Cubase only)
- Creating a Chord Progression from Scratch (Chords to MIDI)
- Extracting Chords from MIDI (Make Chords)
- Controlling MIDI or Audio Playback with the Chord Track (Follow Chords)
- Assigning Chord Events to MIDI Effects or VST Instruments
- Expression maps (Cubase only)
- Note Expression
- 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
- About this chapter
- Layout settings
- Staff size
- Hiding/showing objects
- Coloring notes
- Multiple rests
- Editing existing bar lines
- Creating upbeats
- Setting the number of bars across the page
- Moving bar lines
- Dragging staves
- Adding brackets and braces
- Displaying the Chord Symbols from the Chord Track
- Auto Layout
- Reset Layout
- Breaking bar lines
- Scoring for drums
- Creating tablature
- The score and MIDI playback
- Tips and Tricks
- Index
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The Project window
The Inspector
Instrument tracks
The Inspector for an instrument track shows some of the sections from VST
instrument channels and MIDI tracks, see
“VST instruments and instrument tracks” on
page 252.
MIDI tracks
When a MIDI track is selected, the Inspector contains a number of additional sections
and parameters, affecting the MIDI events in realtime (e.
g. on playback). Which
sections are available for MIDI tracks is described in the chapter
“MIDI realtime
parameters and effects” on page 449.
Inserts section Allows you to add insert effects to the track, see the chapters “Audio
effects” on page 227 and “MIDI realtime parameters and effects” on
page 449. The Edit button at the top of the section opens the control
panels for the added insert effects.
Strip section Here you can set up the channel strip modules, see “Using Channel
Strip Modules” on page 198.
Equalizers section Lets you adjust the EQs for the track. You can have up to four bands
of EQ for each track, see
“Making EQ Settings” on page 196. The
Edit button at the top of the section opens the Channel Settings
window for the track.
Sends section Allows you to route an audio track to one or several FX channels, see
the chapter
“Audio effects” on page 227. The Edit button above a
slot opens the control panel for the first effect in each FX channel. For
MIDI tracks, this is where you assign MIDI send effects. Clicking the
Edit button above a slot opens the control panel for the
corresponding MIDI effect.
Cue Sends section
(Cubase only)
The Cue Sends are used to route cue mixes to Control Room cues.
For a detailed description of cues and cues sends, see the chapter
“The Control Room (Cubase only)” on page 211.
Surround Pan
section
(Cubase only)
When the SurroundPanner is used for a track, this is also available in
the Inspector. For further information, see
“Using the SurroundPanner
V5” on page 269.
Channel Fader
section
Shows a duplicate of the corresponding MixConsole channel. The
channel overview strip to the left lets you activate and deactivate
insert effects, EQs and sends.
Notepad section This is a standard text notepad, allowing you to jot down notes about
the track. If you open the File menu and select “Notepad Data…”
from the Export submenu, your data will be exported as text file and
opened in an external text editor from where you can print it. Note that
you have to save your project first.
If you have entered any notes about a track, the icon next to the
“Notepad” heading will light up to indicate this. Moving the pointer
over the icon will display the Notepad text in a tooltip.
Device Panel
section (Cubase
only)
Here you can display device panels, e. g. for external MIDI devices,
audio track panels or VST insert effect panels. For information on how
to create or import MIDI device panels, see the separate PDF
document “MIDI Devices”.
Quick Controls
section
Here you can configure quick controls, e. g. to use remote devices,
see the chapter
“Track Quick Controls” on page 430.
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