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
D
Chord events 543
Adding 543, 551
Adding chords 551
Assigning to MIDI effects or
VSTis 554
Auditioning 543
Chord type 543
Converting to MIDI 552
Editing 543
Extracting from MIDI 552
Getting suggestions 551
Mapping offset 544
Resolving Display
Conflicts 543
Tension 543
Voicings 543
Chord functions
About 542
Chord progression
Creating 551
Chord symbols
Global settings 844
Inserting manually 841
Chord track
About 542
Auditioning 542
Controlling MIDI or audio
playback 553
Following Chords 553
Inspector section 545
Live transform 548
Mapping 553
Moving Notes to Voices 546
Cleanup 61, 684
Clefs
Editing 769
Inserting 768
Moving 769
Selecting automatically 741
Setting initial 738
Setting up 535
Click button 131
Clips, see “Audio clips”
Clock sources 653
Closing projects 57
Colors
Assigning to MIDI notes 796
MIDI editors 490
Project window 707
Tracks 88
Common notes mode
Chord Assistant 550
Complexity filters 551
Complexity filters
Cadence mode 550
Common notes mode 551
Compressor
Strip module 198
Conforming
Files 392
Connecting
Audio 12
MIDI 19
Constrain Delay
Compensation 265
Control link 201, 202
Control Room
Adding channels 212
Channels section 219
Control Room channels 223
Cue channels 218
Cue sends 224
Exclusive port assignment 214
Features 211
Input gain 221
Input phase 221
Insert effects 222
Main mix 223
Main mix output 214
Meter 222
Mixer 215
Opening 214
Outputs 214
Overview 226
Phones channel 218
Preferences 223
Routing 214
Setting up 212
Control Room channels 216
About 212
Creating 212
Cues 213
External inputs 213
Monitors 213, 222
Phones 213
Talkback 213, 222
Controller display
About 487
About lanes 502
Controller lane presets 504
Editing events 504
Editing velocity 508
Selecting event types 503
Controller lanes
Adding 502
Removing 502
Controllers
Deleting 507
Editing 504
Recording 127
Converting chord events to
MIDI 552
Copying
Notes in score 763
Symbols in score 831
Count-in 131
CPR files 57
Crescendo
Drawing 833
Flipping 834
Keeping horizontal 834
Crop 83
Crossfades
Creating 147
Editing in dialog 148
Equal Gain 148
Equal Power 148
Presets 149
Removing 148
CSH files 60
Cue notes 806
Cue Sends
Adjusting the volume 225
Cue mix 224
Cut Notes tool 804
Cut Time 82
Cut tool
MIDI editors 498
Project window 75
Score Editor 539, 766
Cutflag events 804
Cutting
Notes in score 763
Cycle
About 104
Cycle markers
About 169
Drawing 174
Editing with tools 170
Resizing 174
Using 169
Zooming 170
Cycle recording
Audio 112
MIDI 127
D
Damper pedal symbols 835
DC Offset
Removing 310
Delay compensation
About 228
Constraining 265
Deleting
Audio files from disk 381
Continuous Controllers 479
Controllers 479
Doubles 480
Events in Project window 79
MIDI controllers 479, 507
MIDI drum notes 517
MIDI notes 498
Notes 480
Notes in score 770
Score symbols 831
Deleting Overlaps
Audio 96
Mono (MIDI) 477
Poly (MIDI) 477
Detect Silence 317
Deviation (Display Quantize) 774
Device panels 45
About 467
Inspector 45