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
U
Track Quick Controls 442
About 430
Assigning parameters 431
Controlling the MixConsole 433
Remote control setup 432
Removing 432
Renaming 431
Replacing 431
Track types 40
Tracks
Adding 87
Adding events 91
Audio channel
configuration 114
Coloring 88
Default time base 90
Disabling 93, 106
Duplicating 93
Enabling 106
Folding 93
Freezing 234
Importing/Exporting 696
Linear time base 90
Locking 79
Moving 93
Musical 90
Naming 88
Record-enabling 110
Removing 87
Selecting 92
Soloing 79
Transcription 747
Transformer
Strip module 198
Transformer (MIDI effect) 580
Transport menu
Functions 101
Playback options 106
Transport panel
Customizing 700
Display format 103
Hiding 102
Key commands 102
Overview 101
Showing 102
Transpose
Info line 49
MIDI function 472
MIDI Modifier 452
Transpose track
About 161
Transposing
Instruments 744
MIDI notes
763
Triangle mode
Automation 283
MIDI editing 506
Trills
Creating 819
Trim buttons 76
Trim tool 488
Tuplets 808
Display options 810
Group symbols 834
N-Tuplets 809
Quantizing 138
U
Undo
Processing 315
Recording 120
Ungrouping
Events 78
Unlock Record 133
Unstretching audio 369
Upbeats 872
Update Origin 378
V
VariAudio
About 353
Applying editing 355
Auditioning 365
Bypassing 365
Changing the pitch 359
Changing the timing 362
Editing segments 356
Extractimg MIDI 366
Quantize Pitch 359
Resetting 365
Segments 353
Straighten pitch 361
Tilting micro-pitch curves 360
Waveform display 353
Velocity
Editing 508
Editing via MIDI 500
Info line 49
MIDI function 478
Velocity compression 452
Velocity shift 452
Verses (Lyrics) 850
Video
Codecs 671
Device Setup 675
Editing 678
Extracting audio from 678
Formats 670
Frame numbers 674
Importing 672
Muting 674
Output devices 671
Playback 675
Replacing audio 679
Scrubbing 678
Thumbnails 674
Video Player window 676
Aspect ratio 677
Setting video quality 677
Setting window size 677
Video track
Editing in Project Browser 635
Virtual Keyboard
About 108
Computer keyboard
display 108
Description 108
Modulation 109
Note velocity level 109
Octave offset 109
Piano keyboard display 108
Pitchbend 109
Visibility
MixConsole 180
Voices
About 779
Converting to tracks 789
Display Quantize 786
Moving notes to 784
Voicings 543
Automatic voicings 544
Configuring parameters 544,
547
Follow Chord Track 546
Info line 544
Library 544
Library subset 544
Octave offset 548
Piano 547
Range 548
Start voicing 547
Volume
MixConsole 189
Volume curve 151
Volume handle 144
VST
Input ports 18
Output ports 18
VST 3
Suspend plug-in
processing 228, 260
VST Audio System 15
VST Connections 26
About 26
Editing 37
Exclusive port assignment 214
Presets 31
VST instruments
Activating 255
Browsing for sounds 260
Channels 253
Freezing 258
Presets 260
Saving presets 263
Setting up 252
Using VST System Link 668
VST plug-ins
Getting info 249
VST presets
Removing 424