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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542 Working with the Chord Functions
542 Introduction
542 The Chord Track
545 The Chord Track Inspector Section
548 The Chord Editor
549 The Chord Assistant (Cubase only)
551 Creating a Chord Progression from
Scratch (Chords to MIDI)
552 Extracting Chords from MIDI (Make
Chords)
553 Controlling MIDI or Audio Playback with
the Chord Track (Follow Chords)
554 Assigning Chord Events to MIDI Effects
or VST Instruments
555 Expression maps (Cubase only)
555 Introduction
556 Using expression maps in Cubase
560 Creating and editing expression maps
565 Note Expression
565 Introduction
567 Setting up the Note Expression Inspector
tab
569 Mapping controllers
570 Recording
572 Editing Note Expression data
576 Note Expression and MIDI
579 HALion Sonic SE
580 The Logical Editor, Transformer,
and Input Transformer
580 Introduction
581 Opening the Logical Editor
581 Window overview
581 Setting up filter conditions
590 Selecting a function
591 Specifying actions
594 Applying the defined actions
594 Working with presets
595 The Input Transformer
597 The Project Logical Editor
(Cubase only)
597 Introduction
598 Opening the Project Logical Editor
598 Window overview
598 Setting up filter conditions
605 Specifying actions
607 Selecting a function
608 Applying Macros
608 Applying the defined actions
608 Working with presets
610 Editing tempo and signature
610 Background
611 Tempo and signature display
613 Editing tempo and signature
616 Process Tempo (Cubase only)
617 The Process Bars dialog (Cubase only)
618 The Beat Calculator
619 Merge Tempo From Tapping (Cubase
only)
619 The Time Warp tool (Cubase only)
625 Tempo Detection (Cubase only)
628 Adjusting the audio to the project tempo
629 The Project Browser (Cubase only)
629 Window Overview
630 Editing tracks
638 Export Audio Mixdown
638 Introduction
639 Mixing down to audio files
640 The Export Audio Mixdown dialog
645 The available file formats
650 Synchronization
650 Background
651 Timecode (positional references)
653 Clock sources (speed references)
653 The Project Synchronization Setup dialog
658 Synchronized operation
659 Example scenario (Cubase only)
660 Working with VST System Link
663 Activating VST System Link
670 Video
670 Introduction
670 Before you start
672 Preparing a video project in Cubase
674 Video files in the Project window
675 Playing back video
678 Editing video
678 Extracting audio from a video file
679 Replacing the audio in a video file
680 ReWire
680 Introduction
680 Launching and quitting
681 Activating ReWire channels
682 Using the transport and tempo controls
682 How the ReWire channels are handled in
Cubase
683 Routing MIDI via ReWire2
683 Considerations and limitations