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
47
The Project window
The toolbar
The toolbar
The toolbar contains tools and shortcuts for opening other windows and various
project settings and functions.
You can show/hide most of the toolbar elements (except the Activate Project and “Set
up Window Layout” buttons) by activating/deactivating the corresponding options on
the context menu. The following options are available:
Ö How to further set up the toolbar is described in the section “Using the Setup
options” on page 700.
Option Description
Constrain Delay
Compensation
This is described in the section “Constrain Delay
Compensation” on page 265.
Media & MixConsole
Windows
When this is activated, buttons for opening or closing the
MediaBay, the Pool, the MixConsole, and the Control Room
Mixer (Cubase only) are displayed on the toolbar.
Automation Mode When this is activated, the automation mode and a button to
open/close the Automation panel are displayed on the toolbar.
For details, see the chapter
“Automation” on page 279.
Auto-Scroll When this is activated, buttons for the options “Auto-Scroll”
and “Suspend Auto-Scroll when Editing” are displayed, see
“Auto-Scroll” on page 54.
Locators When this is activated, the left and right locator positions are
displayed on the toolbar.
Transport Buttons When this is activated, the transport buttons from the Transport
panel are also displayed on the toolbar.
Arranger Controls When this is activated, the controls used when working with the
arranger track are displayed, see the chapter
“The arranger
track” on page 152.
Time Display When this is activated, the Transport panel’s time display is
displayed on the toolbar.
Markers When this is activated, the Transport panel’s marker buttons are
displayed on the toolbar.
Tool Buttons When this is activated, tool buttons for editing in the Project
window are displayed on the toolbar. The tools are also
accessible via the toolbox, see
“Using the toolbox” on page 48.
Color Menu This shows/hides the color pop-up menu, see “Applying colors
in the Project window” on page 706.
Nudge Palette Activate this to display the nudge buttons. These buttons can
be used to nudge events or parts in the Project window or for
trimming (see
“Moving events” on page 72 and “Resizing
events” on page 76).
Project Root Key Activate this to display the Project Root Key. For details, see the
chapter
“The transpose functions” on page 161.
Snap/Quantize The Snap to Zero Crossings option is described in the section
“Snap to Zero Crossing” on page 54. The other options are
described in the sections “The Snap function” on page 52 and
“Quantizing MIDI and Audio” on page 134.
Performance Meter When this is activated, meters for ASIO time usage and hard
disk transfer load are displayed.