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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File handling
Exporting and importing standard MIDI files
The dialog contains the following options:
Option Description
Export Inspector
Patch
If this is activated, the MIDI patch settings in the Inspector – Bank
Select and Program Select (used for selecting sounds in the
connected MIDI instrument) are included as MIDI Bank Select and
Program Change events in the MIDI file.
Export Inspector
Volume/Pan
If this is activated, Volume and Pan settings made in the Inspector are
included as MIDI Volume and Pan events in the MIDI file.
Export Automation If this is activated, the automation data (as heard during playback) are
converted to MIDI controller events and included in the MIDI file, see
the chapter
“Automation” on page 279. This also includes automation
recorded with the MIDI Control plug-in (see the separate PDF
document “Plug-in Reference”).
Note that if a continuous controller (e. g. CC7) has been recorded but
the Read button is deactivated for the automation track (i.
e. the
automation is effectively switched off for this parameter), only the part
data for this controller will be exported.
If this option is deactivated and the Automation Read button is
activated, no Continuous Controllers are exported. If the Read button
is deactivated, the Controller data of the MIDI part are exported
(these will now be handled like “regular” part data).
In most cases it is recommended to activate this option.
Export Inserts If this is activated and you are using MIDI modifiers or any MIDI plug-
ins as insert effects, the modifications to the original MIDI notes that
occur as a result of the effect(s) will be included in the MIDI file. A
MIDI delay, for example, will produce a number of repeats to a MIDI
note by actually adding additional, “echoing” notes at rhythmic
intervals – these notes will be included in the MIDI file if the option is
activated.
Export Sends If this is activated and you are using any MIDI plug-ins as send
effects, the modifications to the original MIDI notes that occur as a
result of the effect(s) will be included in the MIDI file.
Export Markers If this is activated, any markers you have added (see “Using markers”
on page 169) will be included in the MIDI file as standard MIDI file
marker events.
Export as Type 0 If this is activated, the MIDI file will be of type 0 (all data on a single
track, but on different MIDI channels). If you do not activate this
option, the MIDI file will be of Type 1 (data on separate tracks).
Which type to choose depends on what you want to do with the MIDI
file (in which application or sequencer it should be used, etc.).
Export Resolution You can specify a MIDI resolution between 24 and 960 for the MIDI
file. The resolution is the number of pulses, or ticks, per quarter note
(PPQ) and determines the precision with which you will be able to
view and edit the MIDI data. The higher the resolution, the higher the
precision. Choose the resolution depending on the application or
sequencer with which the MIDI file will be used, though, since certain
applications and sequencers may not be able to handle certain
resolutions.
Export Locator
Range
If this is activated, only the range between the locators will be
exported.