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Additional note and rest formatting
About tied notes
3. Drag the handle up or down.
The slant of the beam changes.
Dragging a handle and the effect it has.
Ö You can adjust the distance between notes and their beam without changing the
beam slant. Select both handles of a beam (by pressing the [Shift] key while selecting
the second handle) and drag one of the handles up or down.
Mixed stem direction
By dragging the beam handles you can put the beam between the note heads:
Putting the beam between the notes.
About tied notes
Sometimes, notes are displayed as two or more notes tied together. Generally, there
are three different occasions when this happens:
• When a note is of an “uneven” length that cannot be displayed without tying
together two or more notes of different note values.
• When a note crosses a bar line.
• When a note crosses a “group line” within a bar.
The last case requires some explanation: Cubase uses a “cutting mechanism” that
automatically creates tied notes depending on the length and position of the notes.
For example, a quarter note is cut in two and tied if it crosses a half note beat, and an
eighth note is cut in two and tied if it crosses a quarter note beat:
However, this is not always what you want. There are three ways to affect the cutting
mechanism:
Syncopation
When the Syncopation option is activated on the Main tab of the Staff page in the
Score Settings dialog, Cubase is less prone to cut and tie notes. For example, the
second quarter note in the figure above would not have been cut if syncopation had
been activated.
The Syncopation setting affects the whole track, but you can also make syncopation
settings for separate sections in the score, by inserting display quantize events (see
“Inserting Display Quantize changes” on page 750).
This quarter note is cut. This eighth note is cut.