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How the Score Editor works
Display Quantize
Using Rests as Display Quantize setting
Above we used Display Quantize for notes. There is a similar Display Quantize setting
called “Rests” which is used to set the smallest rest to be displayed. Often, this
setting is very effective.
Let’s start with the following note example:
As you see, the first note appears one sixteenth note late. If we change the Display
Quantize value for notes to eighth notes, the score is displayed like this:
With Display Quantize: Notes set to eighth notes
Unfortunately, this moves the first note to the same position as the second, since
sixteenth note positions are not allowed. We can solve this by inserting extra Display
Quantize values within the bar with the Display Quantize tool (see
“Inserting Display
Quantize changes” on page 750), but there is a much easier way: Change the Display
Quantize value for notes back to sixteenths, but set the value for rests to eighth notes!
This tells the program not to display any rests smaller than eighth notes, except when
necessary. The result looks like this:
With Display Quantize: Notes set to sixteenth notes, but Rests set to eighth notes.
How did this work? Well, you instructed the program not to display any rests smaller
than eighth notes, except when “necessary”. Since the first note appeared on the
second sixteenth note position, it was necessary to put a sixteenth rest at the
beginning of the figure. All other rests can be hidden by displaying the notes as eighth
notes, and were therefore not “necessary”.
This leads us to the following general guidelines:
Ö Set the Notes value according to the “smallest note position” you want to be shown in
the score (e.
g. if you have notes on odd sixteenth note positions, set the Notes to
sixteenth notes).
Ö Set the Rests value according to the smallest note value (length) you want to be
displayed for a single note, positioned on a beat.
Common Display Quantize settings would be to have Notes set to 16 (sixteenth
notes) and Rests set to 4 (quarter notes).
Handling exceptions
Unfortunately, the guidelines above do not work perfectly in every situation. You may
for example have a mix of straight notes and tuplets of different types, or you may wish
to display equally long notes with different note values depending on the context.
There are several methods you can try:
Automatic Display Quantize
If your score contains both straight notes and triplets, you can use Auto Quantize.
When this is activated, Cubase tries to “understand” whether the notes should be
display quantized to straight notes or triplets, see
“If your music contains mixed
straight notes and triplets” on page 774.