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
K
K
Key (Score Editor)
Editing 769
Inserting changes 768
Setting initial 738
Setting local keys 743
Setting up 535
Key commands
About 711
Conventions 10
Default 717
Importing 715
Loading 715
Modifying 712
Removing 713
Resetting 716
Searching for 713
Keyboard navigation
MixConsole 183
Keyboard symbols
Adding 820
L
Lanes
About 94
Audio Part Editor 372
Latency 22
Monitoring 118
VST System Link 662
Lay text 852
Layout settings
About 866
Equal spacing 867
Modern time signature 868
Multi-Rests 867
Real Book 867
Size 867
Staff separators 867
Layout tool
Moving clefs 769
Layouts
About 858
Creating 859
Exporting 860
Importing 860
Opening 859
Using 859
Ledger lines 795
Legato 477
Length
Compression 452
Quantize 491
Level meters (MixConsole) 189
Level scale
Half-level axis 331
Sample Editor 331
LFE
About 267
SurroundPanner V5 275
Libraries
About 391
Limiter
Strip module 198
Line mode
Automation 282
MIDI controllers 505
MIDI velocity 509
Linear time base 90
List Editor
Adding events 523
Editing in the list 524
Editing in the value display 526
Filter bar 525
Filtering 525
Listen
MixConsole 188
Live transform
Chord track 548
MIDI Input 553
Locators
Setting
104
Lock layers 825
Lock Record 133
Logical Editor
About 580
Actions 591
Filter conditions 581
Functions 590
Opening 581
Presets 594
Loop
Audio Part Editor 374
MIDI editors 489
Loudness
LU 204
LUFS 204
Meter 204, 205
Lyrics
About 849
In voices 850
Inserting manually 849
Verse 850
M
Mac OS X 10
Port activation 28
Port selection 28
Machine control
About 650
Input source 657
Output destinations 655
Macros 714
Magnetic Cursor (Snap mode) 53
Magnifying Glass tool 64
Main mix
Output 214
Setting up 30
Make Chords 552
Mapping offset 544
Mapping to the chord track 553
Marker list
Navigating 171
Marker tracks
About 173
Adding 173
Editing markers 174
Marker window
About 170
Editing attributes 172
Filtering markers 171
Reordering columns 172
Markers
About 46, 169
Adding in Marker window 171
Attributes 171, 172
Converting to score layout 861
Creating from hitpoints 351
Editing in Project Browser 636
Editing on marker track 174
Exporting 175
Importing 175
Making range selections 175
Marker IDs 173
Snapping to 53
MediaBay
About 393
Attribute filtering 409
Attribute Inspector 410
Defining locations 395, 397
Defining user attributes 415
Editing attributes 411
Filtering 406
Hiding sections 394
Key commands 417
Preferences 416
Previewing 403
Scanning operations 395
Selecting locations 398
Showing sections 394
Viewing results 399
Volume databases 420
VST Sound node 396
Melisma lines 846
Memory 22
Merge Clipboard (function) 305
Merge MIDI in Loop 473
Merge Tempo from Tapping 619
Meter peak options 189
Hold forever 189
Hold peaks 189
Meter position options 190
Input 190
Post-Fader 190
Post-Panner 190
Meter section
MixConsole 203
Meters
AES17 203
Alignment level 203
Coloring of 705
Peak meter display 203
RMS display 203
Scale standards 203
Settings 189
Metronome
Activating 131
Precount 131
Settings 132