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Creating tablature
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
- How to create tablature, automatically and manually.
- How to control the appearance of the tablature notes.
- How to edit tablature.
Cubase is able to produce score in tablature format. This can be done automatically,
by “converting” recorded MIDI information. You can also create a tablature staff from
scratch and enter the notes “by hand”.
Creating tablature automatically
This assumes you have a regular score on screen already. We also suggest you
perform basic editing like quantizing to make the score as legible as possible as
regular notes before converting into tablature.
1. Make sure that the notes in the score are inside the range of the instrument.
Notes with a pitch lower than the open tuning of the lowest string cannot be
converted.
2. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and select the Tablature tab.
3. Activate “Tablature Mode”.
4. Select one of the predefined instruments from the pop-up menu.
• If you are not using one of the predefined instruments, set the open tuning of each
string using the value fields.
You can create tablature for up to 12 strings. To disable a string, set it to Off, the
lowest value.
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Even though we use the term “converting” in this chapter, please note that tablature is
a mode. You can switch between regular notation and tablature at any time.