User manual

815
Working with symbols
Important! – Symbols, staves, and voices
Setting up the Favourites tab
In the Symbols Inspector, you can find a tab called Favourites. Cubase allows you to
fill this tab with a selection of symbols from other tabs. This way, you have instant
access to the symbols you use often:
1. Open the Favourites tab.
If it is the first time you are using this tab, it is empty.
2. Open the tab from which you want to copy a symbol.
Ö Not all symbols can be placed on the Favourites tab.
3. Right-click on the symbol that you want to add to the Favourites tab and select
“Add to Favourites” on the context menu.
You can also add a symbol to the Favourites tab by [Alt]/[Option]-clicking on it.
4. Repeat this procedure for other symbols that you want to add to the Favourites
tab.
• To remove a symbol from the Favourites tab, select “Remove from Favourites” from
the context menu or hold down [Alt]/[Option] and click on it.
Important! – Symbols, staves, and voices
Most symbols belong to a staff when inserted. Only note symbols, slurs and ties are
an exception. They belong to notes and therefore to voices.
It is extremely important that the correct staff is active when you insert a symbol (if you
are editing multiple staves).
If you for example insert a symbol while the wrong staff is active, the symbol might
later “disappear” because you edit another configuration of tracks (the track you
actually inserted the symbol on might not be opened for editing).
The same is true for note symbols and their relation to voices. Make sure that the
correct voice is active when inserting symbols or they might wind up at the wrong
position, fermatas may be turned upside down, etc.
Layout symbols work slightly differently. Instead of belonging to a certain staff or
voice, they belong to a layout. Since different track combinations use different layouts,
this means that if you insert a layout symbol in the score when you are editing two
tracks (for example a trumpet and a saxophone part), it is not there when you view
each track by itself in the Score Editor. If you want the same symbols to appear in
other layouts as well, you can copy the form of one layout to another. If you want a
symbol to appear in all layouts, use the Project layer.
Adding symbols to the score
Making space and handling margins
• If you find there is not enough space between staves to add symbols (like for
example text), see
“Dragging staves” on page 876 for info on how to separate the
staves.
• If you find the score looks crammed after adding symbols, check out the section
“Auto Layout” on page 879.
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Symbols you add outside the margins are not printed!