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
M
MIDI
Channel settings 125
Cycle recording 127
Dissolve parts 474
Extracting from audio 366
Local On/Off 20
Record modes 126
MIDI channel
In drum maps 519
Selecting for tracks 125
Send effects 457
MIDI clock
Destinations 658
Synchronization 653
MIDI controllers
Automation setup 300
MIDI devices
Defining new for patch
selection 462
Device Manager 461
Editing patches 465
Installing 463
Selecting patches 464
MIDI editors
Default editor 482
MIDI Input function 500
MIDI effects
About 455
Deactivating 459
Inserts 456
Presets 458
Sends 457
MIDI files 692
MIDI filter 130
MIDI Input
Chord editor 549
MIDI Input function
MIDI editors 500
Sample Editor 362
Score Editor 764
MIDI Input Transformer 595
MIDI inputs
Renaming 124
Selecting for tracks 124
MIDI interface
Connecting 19
MIDI Modifiers 451
MIDI notes
Assigning colors 796
Deleting 498
Display length 765
Drawing 491
Duplicating 762
Editing velocity 508
Grouping automatically 800
Grouping in score 797
Head shape 794
Ledger lines 795
Moving 496, 760
Moving graphically 805
Muting 498
Muting in Drum Editor 517
Resizing 497
Selecting 494
Selecting in score 759
Splitting 766
Splitting and gluing 498
Transpose (function) 472
Transposing (in editor) 496
MIDI outputs
In drum maps 519
Renaming 124
Selecting for tracks 125
Send effects 457
MIDI parts
About 42
Drawing 92
Editing 482
Editing in Project Browser 633
Showing borders 483
Sliding contents 77
MIDI ports
Setting up 21
MIDI reset 128
MIDI Thru
Activating 124
Preference 20
MIDI timecode
Destinations 657
MIDI tracks
MIDI Modifiers 451
Settings 450
Missing files
Removing 385
Missing Ports dialog 57
MixConsole 177
Channel linking 201
Channel overview 179
Channel racks 181
Channel selector 180
Channel types 180
Configuring 179
EQ presets 197
Equalizer curve 179
Fader section 185
FX chain presets 195
Hiding channels 180
Initializing channels 208
Level meters 189
Listen 188
Meter section 203
Mute 187
Notepad 210
Opening 178
Panning 186
Pictures 209
Pre rack 193
Racks 190
Saving configurations 182
Saving settings 208
Sections 178
Set up Window Layout 178
Setting volume 189
Solo 187
Solo Defeat 188
Strip presets 199
Visibility agents 182
Visibility tab 180
Zones tab 180
Zoom tools 181
Zooming 186
MixConvert
In surround setups 277
MMC Master panel 656
Modifier keys 716
Monitor button
Audio tracks 118
MIDI tracks 124
Monitoring
About 18
Modes 118
Mouse Note Position display 755
Mouse Time Position display 755
Move Notes to Voices 546
Moving
MIDI notes in score 760
Objects graphically 805
Staves 876
Tracks to new folder 97
Using key commands 760
MP3 files
Exporting 647
Importing 689
MPEG files 689
MPEX algorithm
About 323
Pitch Shift 308
Multi processing 24
Multi-channel tracks
Export 638
Multi-Rests
Creating 870
Option 867
Settings 871
Splitting
870
Musical Mode
About 340
Adjusting audio loops 341
Pool 340
Musical time base 90
MusicXML
About 862
Exporting 865
Importing 865
Mute
Events in Project window 79
MIDI notes 498
MixConsole 187
Pre-Send 238
Surround channels 271
Tool 79
Tracks 79