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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302 Audio processing and functions
302 Background
302 Audio processing
313 Applying plug-ins (Cubase only)
315 The Offline Process History dialog
316 Freeze Edits
317 Detect Silence
319 The Spectrum Analyzer
321 Statistics
322 About time stretch and pitch shift
algorithms
325 The Sample Editor
325 Window overview
332 General functions
341 Warping audio
347 Working with hitpoints and slices
353 VariAudio (Cubase only)
367 Generating Harmony Voices for
Monophonic Audio
368 Flattening realtime processing
371 The Audio Part Editor
371 Background
371 Window overview
372 Opening the Audio Part Editor
373 Operations
375 Options and Settings
376 The Pool
376 Background
377 Window overview
380 Operations
393 The MediaBay
393 Introduction
394 Working with the MediaBay
395 The Define Locations section
398 The Locations section
399 The Results list
403 Previewing files
406 The Filters section
410 The Attribute Inspector
415 The Loop Browser, Sound Browser, and
Mini Browser windows
416 Preferences
417 Key commands
418 Working with MediaBay-related windows
420 Working with Volume databases
422 Working with track presets
422 Introduction
422 Types of track presets
424 Applying track presets
427 Creating a track preset
428 Creating tracks from track presets or VST
presets
430 Track Quick Controls
430 Introduction
430 Assigning parameters to quick controls
432 Connecting quick controls with remote
controllers
433 Quick controls and automatable
parameters
435 Remote controlling Cubase
435 Introduction
435 Setting Up
437 Operations
438 The Generic Remote device
442 Track Quick Controls
442 The Remote Control Editor
448 Apple Remote (Macintosh only)
449 MIDI realtime parameters and
effects
449 Introduction
449 The Inspector – general handling
450 The Inspector sections
455 MIDI effects
459 Managing plug-ins
460 Using MIDI devices
460 Background
460 MIDI devices – general settings and patch
handling
467 About Device panels (Cubase only)
471 MIDI processing
471 Introduction
473 Making your settings permanent
474 Dissolve Part
476 Bounce MIDI
476 Repeat Loop
477 Other MIDI functions
481 The MIDI editors
481 Introduction
482 Opening a MIDI editor
483 The Key Editor – Overview
488 Key Editor operations
512 The In-Place Editor
514 The Drum Editor – Overview
516 Drum Editor operations
518 Working with drum maps
522 Using drum name lists
522 The List Editor – Overview
523 List Editor operations
527 Working with SysEx messages
529 Recording SysEx parameter changes
529 Editing SysEx messages
531 The basic Score Editor – Overview
532 Score Editor operations