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
T
Status line
Drum Editor 514
Key Editor 485
List Editor 522
Project window 48
Score Editor 735
Score Editor (basic) 531
Staves
Active staff 533, 734
Changing the split point 767
Displaying staff names 855
Long and short names 855
Moving 876, 879
Options 777
Presets 772
Size 868
Spacing 895
Split staves 534
Steinberg Hub 55
Stem direction
About 790
In polyphonic voices 790
Manual flip 791
Set Note Info dialog 796
Step Input 501
Stereo Flip 311
Strip presets 199
Strip Silence 319
Surround
About 266
Applying plug-ins 266
Automation 276
Disable speakers 271
Exporting to file 278
Inspector 269
LFE level 275
MixConsole 269
MixConvert 277
Mute speakers 271
Output bus configuration 267
Panning 273
Routing 268
Setup 14
Solo speakers 271
Supported configurations 267
SurroundPanner V5
About 269
Constant power 277
Suspend Auto-Scroll 54
Swing
Quantizing 138
Sample Editor
344
Symbol palettes
About 736
Available symbols 814
Customizing 815
Displaying 814
Handling 814
Moving 814
Symbols Inspector
Customizing 812
Sync Selection 630
Synchronization
About 650
Operation (Sync mode) 658
Recording in Sync mode 111
Setting up 653
Speed references 653
Timecode 651
Timecode preferences 655
Timecode source 654
Synchronizing Track Data
Follow Chord Track 546
Sys text 852
System Exclusive
About 527
Bulk Dumps 527
Editing 529
Recording parameter
changes 529
T
Tablature
Automatic creation 887
Capo 888
Clef 888
Editing 890
Manual creation 888
MIDI channels 888
Tap Tempo 618
Templates 58
Default 59
Tempo
About 610
Analyzing 626
Calculating 618
Correcting the detected
tempo 626
Detection 625
Editing 613
Editing in Project Browser 636
Exporting 616
Importing 616
Matching audio 341
Setting in Fixed mode 615
Symbols 837
Tapping 618
Write definition to files 628
Tempo changes
Recording 615
Tempo editing
Process bars 617
Process tempo 616
Text
Adding 845
Aligning 847
Block text 851
Editing 846
Font 846
Importing from file 851
Lyrics 849
Regular 848
Size 846
Style 846
Text Attribute Sets
About 847
Creating 847
Using 848
Thumbnails
About 674
Thumbnail cache files 674
Ties
About 758, 803
Adding as symbols 817
Cut Notes tool 804
Direction 796
, 831
Dynamics 830
Flat 805
Shape 831
Splitting 766
Time display 103
Time formats 50
Time signatures
About 610
Composite 739
Editing 615, 769
For grouping 739
Inserting 768
Modern 868
Setting initial 738
Signature track/Tempo Track
Editor 740
Time stretch 312
Algorithms 322
Limitations 324
Time Warp tool 619
Timecode
Standards 651
Synchronization 651
Tool modifier keys 716
Toolbar
Audio Part Editor 371
Customizing 700
Drum Editor 514
Key Editor 484
List Editor 522
Pool 377
Project window 47
Sample Editor 326
Score Editor 531
Track archives
Importing 696
Track controls
Customizing 702
Track list
About 42
Customizing 702
Dividing 100
Track presets
Previewing 424, 425
Removing 424