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
N
N
Navigating
MixConsole 183
Noise Gate 305
Normalize
Audio effect 306
Note Expression
About 565
Editing data 572
MIDI controllers 566
Overdubbing 570
Recording 570
Recording via MIDI 571
Setting up parameters 567
VST3 controllers 565
Note layer symbols 811
About 811
Adding 816
Note length
Changing in Score Editor 765
Note symbols
Adding 816
Resizing 830
Notepad
MixConsole 210
Notes
Editing via MIDI 500, 764
NPL files 390
Nudge buttons 106
MIDI editors 496
Project window 73
Nudge key commands 828
Nudging notes 760
Numeric keypad 102
O
Object Selection tool
Show Extra Info 42
Octave symbols 834
Offline Process History 315
Offline processing
VariAudio 355
Ogg Vorbis files
Exporting 647
Importing 689
OMF files 690
O-Notes 518
Opening projects 57
Operating systems 10
Output busses
About 27
Adding 29
Default 30
Mixing down to file 638
Routing 192
Surround 267
Output ports 18
Output selection
Multiple MIDI channels 125
Outputs
Audio 28
MIDI 124
Overlapping events
Project window 73
P
Page text 852
Panning
Bypass 187
MIDI channels 187
MixConsole 186
Multi-channel audio 187
Stereo Pan Law 187
Parabola mode
Automation 282
MIDI controllers 505
MIDI velocity 509
Parts
Dissolving (MIDI) 474
Editing the active part only 482
Parts/events in selection range 83
Paste Time
MIDI editing 497
Selection ranges 82
Pasting
Events at origin 75
Note attributes 797
Notes in score 763
Symbols in score 831
Patch Banks 464
Pattern banks
Previewing in MediaBay 406
Peak meter display 203
Pedal symbols 835
Pedals
To note length 477
Phase
MixConsole 194
Phase Reverse 306
Phones channel
Source buttons 218
Piano staves
Fixed split point 766
Variable split point 782
Piano voicings 547
Pictures
MixConsole 209
Pitch & Warp tool
Sample Editor 359
Pitch changes
Disabling in Sample Editor 365
Pitch Shift 307
Limitations 324
Pitch shifting
Algorithms 322
Pitchbend
Deleting 507
Editing 504
Recording 127
Play tool
Project window 69
Plug and Play
ASIO devices 15
Plug-in delay compensation 228
Plug-in Information window
MIDI plug-ins
459
VST plug-ins 249
Plug-ins
Applying 313
Getting info 249
Organizing 249
RAM limitation 22, 228
Surround 266
Poly Pressure events 510
Polyphonic voicing
About 779
Automatic 788
Crossed voicings 787
Display Quantize 786
Entering notes 783
Identifying voices for notes 784
Moving notes to voices 784
Presets 782
Rest handling 785
Setting up 781
Stem direction 790
Polyphony
Restricting 480
Pool
About 376
Auditioning 386
Converting files 391
Duplicating clips 380
Handling audio clips 380
Importing media files 386
Importing Pool files 390
Locating missing files 385
Record folder 388
Search functions 383
Position cursor 731
Position Info window 827
Position markers
About 169
Post-Crossfade 303
Post-roll 131
Precount 131
Pre-Crossfade 303
Pre-fader sends 238
Preferences
About 85
Presets 85
Transferring 709
Pre-roll 131
Previewing
Track presets 424, 425
Printing
Page setup 734
Scores 541
, 744
Processing
About 302
Settings and functions 303
Undoing 315
Project Assistant 55
Project Browser 629