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
B
Auditioning
Acoustic feedback 333
Audio Part Editor 373
MIDI editors 490
Pool 386
Project window 69
Sample Editor 333
Speaker tool 333
Using key commands 333, 373
Auto fades
Global settings 150
Track settings 150
Auto layout
About 879
Hiding empty staves 880
Moving bars 879
Moving staves 879
Auto Quantize 127, 774
Score Editor 535
Auto Save 59
Automatic scales 545
Automatic voicings 544
Automation
Auto-Latch mode 290
Cross-Over mode 291
Delta indicator 281
Editing in Project Browser 635
Following events 288
Merging part and automation
data 299
MIDI Controller 299
Opening automation tracks 285
Showing and hiding 285
SurroundPanner V5 276
Tempo 615
Touch mode 290
Trim 291
Automation curves
Editing 283
Automation events
About 279
Editing 283
Removing 285
Selecting 283
Automation tracks
Assigning parameters to 286
Hiding and showing 287
Muting 288
Auto-Scroll 54
Marker window 171
MIDI editors 489
Project window 54
Sample Editor
327
Score Editor 732
B
Backing up Projects 60
Backup (.bak) files 59
Bank assignments 464
Bar handles 828, 896
Bar lines
Breaking 882
Indenting 875
Moving 874
Selecting type 871
Bar numbers
Offsetting 857
Settings 856
Spacing 856
Bars
Moving 879
Moving to next/previous
staff 874
Number across page 873
Resetting spacing 875
Batch export
Audio channels 638
Beams 798
Across staves 801
Appearance 802
Group settings 801
Grouping 797
Manual adjustment 802
On/Off 797
Slant 802
Stem direction 791
Beat Calculator 618
Bezier slurs 819
Bit resolution
Recording 113
Block text 851
Bounce (Export Audio) 638
Bounce MIDI 476
Bounce Selection
Pool 388
Project window 80
Sample Editor 337
Box symbol 836
Braces 878
Bracket heads 795
Brackets 878
Brightness 705
Brillenbass 798
Broadcast Wave files
Exporting 646
Recording 113
Busses
About 27
Adding 29
Child busses 30
Mixing down to file 638
Bypass
AudioWarp 365
Effect sends 238
Global 200
Inserts 230
Pitch changes 365
SurroundPanner V5 276
C
Cadence mode
Chord Assistant 550
Complexity filters 550
Channel & Rack Configurations
(MixConsole) 182
Channel linking 202
Channel names
Searching 182
Channel overview
MixConsole 179
Channel racks 181, 190
EQ 196
Filters 193
Gain 193
Inserts 194
Phase 194
Pre 193
Routing 190
Sends 199
Strips 198
Channel settings 205
Copying 200
Customizing 700
Channel strip rack 198
Compressor 198
EQ position 198
Gate 198
Limiter 198
Presets 199
Saturation 198
Transformer 198
Channel types
MixConsole 180
Channels
MIDI 124
Chase events 107
Child busses 30
In surround configuration 267
Chord Assistant 549
Cadence mode 550
Common notes mode 550
Complexity 549
Gap mode 550
Chord editor 548
Adding chords 549
MIDI Input 549