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
G
Follow Chord Track 546, 553
Auto 546
Chords 546
Directly 546
Roots 546
Scale events 546
Single Voice 546
Synchronizing Track Data 546
Voicings 546
Fonts 857
Score 846
Frame count 651
Frame rates
Mismatch 673
Synchronization 652
Video 673
Free Warp
About 345
Freeze
Edits 316
MIDI Quantize 142
Tracks 234
VST instruments 258
FX chain presets 195
FX channel tracks
About 235
Adding effects for 236
Mixing down to file 638
Routing sends to 237
Setting up 31, 235
G
Gain 304
Gap mode
Chord Assistant 550
Gate
Strip module 198
Generic remote device 438
Global bypass options 200
Glue tool
MIDI editors 498
Project window 75
Score Editor 539
Gluing staves 874
Grace notes
Converting to normal 808
Creating manually 807
Order of 897
Settings 807
Groove quantizing 142
Group channels
About 41
Routing 192
Setting up 31
Using effects 233
Grouping
Events 78
Removing in score 800
Repeats 799
Grouping notes
Accelerando 799
Beam 798
Brillenbass 798
Ritardando 799
Guitar chord symbols 821
Guitar library 822
H
Hard disk
Considerations 23
Hardware setup
Control panel (Mac) 16
Control panel (Win) 16
Hermode tuning 64, 454
Hiding
Empty staves 880
Objects 869
Pedal markers 835
Hitpoints
About 347
Beats pop-up menu 348
Creating events 352
Creating markers 351
Creating regions 338, 352
Detecting 348
Filtering 348
Slicing audio 350
HMT
Follow 454
Use for Analysis 454
HMT depth 64
HMT type 64
I
Image files
Inserting in Score Editor 823
Importing
Audio CDs 388
Audio from video files 688
Markers 175
Markers as track archive 176
Media files in Pool 386
MIDI files 692
MPEG files 689
Ogg Vorbis files 689
OMF files 690
REX files 688
Tempo track 616
Track archives 696
Video files 672
WMA files 689
Independent track loop
Audio Part Editor 374
MIDI editors 489
Indicate Transpositions 165
Info line
Changing note lengths 765
Customizing 700
Drum Editor 514
Editing articulations 559
Editing note pitches 764
Key Editor 485
Pool 377
Project window 48
Sample Editor 328
Score Editor 735
Score Editor (basic) 531
I-Notes 518
In-Place Editor 512
Input busses
About 27
Adding 29
Routing 191
Input gain
MixConsole 193
Setting record level 117
Input levels 14, 116
Input ports 18
Input Transformer 595
Inputs
Audio 28
Meter position options 190
MIDI 124
Insert effect combinations
Saving 247
Insert Silence
Project window 83
Sample Editor 337
Inserts
Audio 229
Bypassing vs. deactivating 230
FX chain presets 195
MIDI 456
MixConsole 194
Monitor channels 222
Side-Chain 242
Talkback channel 222
Inspector
Customizing 700
Folder tracks 46
General controls 44
Handling 43
MIDI tracks 449
Subpanels 455
Transpose track 46
Instrument Freeze 258
Instruments
Display Transpose 744
Intensity (Appearance) 705
Interpretation Options 775
J
Jog wheel 105