User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Getting into the details
- Setting up your system
- VST Connections
- The Project window
- Working with projects
- Creating new projects
- Opening projects
- Closing projects
- Saving projects
- The Archive and Backup functions
- The Project Setup dialog
- Zoom and view options
- Audio handling
- Auditioning audio parts and events
- Scrubbing audio
- Editing parts and events
- Range editing
- Region operations
- The Edit History dialog
- The Preferences dialog
- Working with tracks and lanes
- Playback and the Transport panel
- Recording
- Quantizing MIDI and Audio
- Introduction
- Quantizing Audio Event Starts
- AudioWarp Quantize (Cubase Only)
- Quantizing MIDI Event Starts
- Quantizing MIDI Event Lengths
- Quantizing MIDI Event Ends
- Quantizing Multiple Audio Tracks (Cubase Only)
- AudioWarp Quantizing Multiple Audio Tracks (Cubase Only)
- The Quantize Panel
- Additional Quantizing Functions
- Fades, crossfades, and envelopes
- The arranger track
- The transpose functions
- Using markers
- The MixConsole
- Overview
- Configuring the MixConsole
- Keyboard Navigation in the MixConsole
- Working with the Fader Section
- Working with the Channel Racks
- Linking Channels (Cubase only)
- Metering (Cubase only)
- Using Channel Settings
- Saving and Loading Selected Channel Settings
- Resetting MixConsole Channels
- Adding Pictures
- Adding Notes
- The Control Room (Cubase only)
- Audio effects
- VST instruments and instrument tracks
- Surround sound (Cubase only)
- Automation
- Audio processing and functions
- The Sample Editor
- The Audio Part Editor
- The Pool
- The MediaBay
- Introduction
- Working with the MediaBay
- The Define Locations section
- The Locations section
- The Results list
- Previewing files
- The Filters section
- The Attribute Inspector
- The Loop Browser, Sound Browser, and Mini Browser windows
- Preferences
- Key commands
- Working with MediaBay-related windows
- Working with Volume databases
- Working with track presets
- Track Quick Controls
- Remote controlling Cubase
- MIDI realtime parameters and effects
- Using MIDI devices
- MIDI processing
- The MIDI editors
- Introduction
- Opening a MIDI editor
- The Key Editor – Overview
- Key Editor operations
- The In-Place Editor
- The Drum Editor – Overview
- Drum Editor operations
- Working with drum maps
- Using drum name lists
- The List Editor – Overview
- List Editor operations
- Working with SysEx messages
- Recording SysEx parameter changes
- Editing SysEx messages
- The basic Score Editor – Overview
- Score Editor operations
- Working with the Chord Functions
- Introduction
- The Chord Track
- The Chord Track Inspector Section
- The Chord Editor
- The Chord Assistant (Cubase only)
- Creating a Chord Progression from Scratch (Chords to MIDI)
- Extracting Chords from MIDI (Make Chords)
- Controlling MIDI or Audio Playback with the Chord Track (Follow Chords)
- Assigning Chord Events to MIDI Effects or VST Instruments
- Expression maps (Cubase only)
- Note Expression
- The Logical Editor, Transformer, and Input Transformer
- The Project Logical Editor (Cubase only)
- Editing tempo and signature
- The Project Browser (Cubase only)
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- Video
- ReWire
- File handling
- Customizing
- Key commands
- Part II: Score layout and printing (Cubase only)
- How the Score Editor works
- The basics
- About this chapter
- Preparations
- Opening the Score Editor
- The project cursor
- Playing back and recording
- Page Mode
- Changing the zoom factor
- The active staff
- Making page setup settings
- Designing your work space
- About the Score Editor context menus
- About dialogs in the Score Editor
- Setting clef, key, and time signature
- Transposing instruments
- Printing from the Score Editor
- Exporting pages as image files
- Working order
- Force update
- Transcribing MIDI recordings
- Entering and editing notes
- About this chapter
- Score settings
- Note values and positions
- Adding and editing notes
- Selecting notes
- Moving notes
- Duplicating notes
- Cut, copy, and paste
- Editing pitches of individual notes
- Changing the length of notes
- Splitting a note in two
- Working with the Display Quantize tool
- Split (piano) staves
- Strategies: Multiple staves
- Inserting and editing clefs, keys, or time signatures
- Deleting notes
- Staff settings
- Polyphonic voicing
- About this chapter
- Background: Polyphonic voicing
- Setting up the voices
- Strategies: How many voices do I need?
- Entering notes into voices
- Checking which voice a note belongs to
- Moving notes between voices
- Handling rests
- Voices and Display Quantize
- Creating crossed voicings
- Automatic polyphonic voicing – Merge All Staves
- Converting voices to tracks – Extract Voices
- Additional note and rest formatting
- Working with symbols
- Working with chords
- Working with text
- Working with layouts
- Working with MusicXML
- Designing your score: additional techniques
- About this chapter
- Layout settings
- Staff size
- Hiding/showing objects
- Coloring notes
- Multiple rests
- Editing existing bar lines
- Creating upbeats
- Setting the number of bars across the page
- Moving bar lines
- Dragging staves
- Adding brackets and braces
- Displaying the Chord Symbols from the Chord Track
- Auto Layout
- Reset Layout
- Breaking bar lines
- Scoring for drums
- Creating tablature
- The score and MIDI playback
- Tips and Tricks
- Index
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Index
A
Accelerando 799
Accents
Above staves 816
Above stems 816
Accidentals
About 793
Distance from note 795
ACID® loops 340
Acoustic feedback 490
Sample Editor 333
Score Editor 761
VariAudio 365
Activate Project 57
Adapt (Display Quantize) 774
ADAT Lightpipe 653
Adding chords 549, 551
AES/SPDIF Digital Audio 653
AES17
Meters 203
Aftertouch
Deleting 507
Editing 504
Recording 127
AIFF files 645
Algorithms
Limitations 324
Sample Editor 340
Time stretching 322
Aligning
Dynamics 834
Text 847
Alignment level (Meters) 203
All MIDI Inputs 21
Appearance
General 704
Meters 705
Apple Remote 448
Arranger mode 891
Arranger tracks
Adding 152
Creating a chain 154
Flattening 157
Renaming events 153
Articulations
Auditioning 555
Editing on the controller
lane 559
Editing on the info line 559
ASIO
Direct Monitoring 19, 119
ASIO 2.0 19, 119
ASIO driver
DirectX setup 17
ASIO ports
Using for data only 666
Aspect ratio
Video Player window 677
Attributes
About 410
Defining 415
Editing in the MediaBay 411
Managing lists 414
Marker 171
Audio
Detecting the tempo 625
Record modes 120
Slicing 350
Audio buffer size 23
Audio channels
Mixing down to file 638
Saving settings 208
Audio clips
About 302
Creating new versions 380
Definition 69
Deleting 381
Locating events 382
Managing in Pool 380
Opening in Sample Editor 386
Audio clock
About 653
Audio effects
About 227
Applying 313
Editing 242
External 242
For output busses (Master
inserts) 232
Freezing 234
Organizing in subfolders 249
Pre/Post-fader sends 238
Recording with 121
Saving 245
Selecting presets 244, 262
Sends 237
Surround 266
Tempo sync 228
Using VST System Link 669
Audio events
Creating from regions 339
Creating parts 92
Definition 69
Editing in Browser 631
Editing in Sample Editor 326
Editing selections 336
Fade handles 143
Making selections 335
Showing in Sample Editor 326
Slicing 350
Volume handles 144
Audio files
Adjusting to the project
tempo 342
Converting 391
Deleting permanently 381
Exporting 638
Format for recording 113
Formats 386
Importing into Pool 386
Importing into Project
window 91
Locating 385
Minimizing size 390
Reconstructing missing 385
Removing missing 385
Audio hardware
Connections 12
Externally clocked 17
Setup application 15
Audio loops
Musical Mode 341
Tempo matching 341
Audio parts
About 42
Creating by gluing events 75
Creating from events 92
Drawing 92
Editing in Audio Part Editor 371
Editing in Project Browser 631
Sliding contents 77
AudioWarp
Unstretching audio 369
Audition chords 542