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Entering and editing notes
Moving notes
Moving across staves – the Lock button
If you are editing several tracks, you may want to move notes from one staff to another.
Proceed as follows:
1. Make the desired Quantize settings and select the notes.
Make sure to only select notes on the same staff.
2. Make sure that the “L” (Lock) button on the extended toolbar is deactivated.
When this button is activated, you cannot move notes and other objects from one
staff to another, which is handy if you need to transpose a note very high or low, for
example.
3. Click on one of the notes and drag them to the new system.
The active staff rectangle indicates on which staff the dragged note(s) appears.
The Snap mode
The notes you move (or copy) snap to positions defined by the note length and
Quantize values. Using the Snap Type pop-up menu on the Score Editor toolbar you
can select the Snap mode used when moving or copying notes:
• When using the “Grid” mode, notes you move (or copy) always snap to exact grid
positions.
• When using the “Grid Relative” mode, a note with a certain position relative to a
grid line always maintains that relative position to the grid when moved (or copied).
Acoustic Feedback
To hear the pitch of the note while moving, activate the speaker icon (Acoustic
Feedback) on the toolbar.
About the lock layers
When you are moving and editing notes in the score, you might accidentally move
other objects nearby. To avoid this, assign different types of objects to different “lock
layers” (up to three) and instruct Cubase to “lock” one or two of these layers, making
them unmovable.
There are two ways to set up which type of object should belong to which lock layer:
• Open the Preferences dialog from the File menu and select the Scores–Note
Layer page.
This page lets you adjust the layer setting for each object type.
The “L” (Lock) button is deactivated.