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Staff settings
Working with staff presets
• To make settings for another staff, simply make it active in the score (by clicking
anywhere in the staff or by using the up/down arrow keys on the computer
keyboard).
However, please note that you need to click Apply before making another staff
active – otherwise your settings are lost!
Working with staff presets
Making staff settings for your scores can be time-consuming. Staff presets allow you
to reuse those settings whenever you work with a staff similar to one you have worked
on before. A staff preset contains all the settings from the Staff page of the Score
Settings dialog, except for the key.
• To save the current settings (including the settings on the Options tab, see below)
click the Store button in the Presets section of the Staff page.
Enter a name for the preset in the name dialog that appears, and click OK. The
preset is now available on the Presets pop-up menu (in all projects).
• There are a number of staff presets available, set up to suit various instruments,
etc. The presets are accessed from the Presets pop-up menu on the Staff page of
the Score Settings dialog or from the staff context menu, opened by right-clicking
on the blue rectangle to the left of a staff.
Use them as they are, or as starting points for your own settings. Note that this
loads the settings in the preset into the dialog – to apply these to a staff you must
click the Apply button as usual. You can also apply staff presets directly in the
score – see below.
• To remove a preset, select it from the pop-up menu and click the Remove button.
Applying a preset directly in the score
If you right-click on the blue rectangle to the left of a staff, a context menu appears,
listing all available presets. Select one to apply it to the staff.
How staff presets are stored
The staff presets are stored as individual files in the Presets–Staff Presets folder
within the Cubase program folder. The presets are available for selection in any
project you create or edit.
Staff names
These fields allow you to specify a “long” and a “short” name for the staff. The long
name is shown for the very first system for this staff in the score (at the start of the
project), while the short name is shown for the remaining systems.
• Whether the names are shown at all is set in the Score Settings dialog, on the
Layout page (see
“Staff names” on page 855).
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Staff settings can be saved in the track presets. For more information, see the chapter
“Working with track presets” on page 422.