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
E
Device ports
Selecting for busses 29
Setting up 28
Diminuendo
Drawing 833
Keeping horizontal 834
Direct Monitoring
Control Room 226
Display Quantize 534
About 726
Auto 774
In polyphonic voices 786
Rests 728
Tool 729, 750
Display Transpose
About 535, 776
Disable 744
Dithering 233
Draw tool 92
MIDI parts 92
Score Editor 816
Drawing
In Sample Editor 335
MIDI controllers 504
MIDI notes 491
MIDI parts 92
Drum Editor
Creating and editing notes 516
Muting drum sounds 517
Selecting drum maps 520
Drum maps
About 518
Editing in score 885
Making settings 518
MIDI channel and output 519
Selecting 520
Setup dialog 520
Drum name lists 522
Drum notes
About 883
Adding and editing 886
Head pairs 885
Setting up staves 886
Single line 886
Drumstick tool 516
Duplicate
Events and parts 73
MIDI notes 496
Notes in score 762
Dynamics symbols
Adding 833
E
Edit Active Audio Event Only 326
Edit button
Audio track Inspector 44
MIDI track Inspector 450
Edit groups 99
Edits folder 302
élastique algorithm
About 322
Enharmonic Shift 540
Manual 793
Envelope
Process 304
Realtime 151
EQ
Channel racks 196
Curve display 197
Presets 197
EQ position
Strip module 198
EQ presets 197
Equal Gain
Crossfades 148
Equal Power
Crossfades 148
Equalizer curve
MixConsole 179
Erase tool
Breaking bar lines in score 882
Deleting notes in score 770
Project window 79
Events
Audio 69
Creating from hitpoints 352
Duplicating 73
Envelopes 151
Grouping 78
Locking 78
Moving 72
Muting 79
Overlapping in Project
window 73
Removing 79
Renaming 75
Resizing 76
Resizing with time stretch 77
Selecting 70
Selecting automatically with
project cursor 72
Sliding contents 77
Splitting 75
Explode 751
Export audio mixdown 638
Audio engine settings 643
Channel selection 640
File naming 641
In realtime 644
Exporting
Markers 175
MIDI files 692
OMF 690
Score as image files 745
Selected tracks 696
Tempo track 616
Expression maps
About 555
Creating 560
Drum Editor 558
In-Place Editor 558
Key Editor 558
List Editor 560
Loading 556
Score Editor 558
External effects 242
About 32
Favorites 36
Freezing 37
Missing plug-ins 36
Setting up 33
External instruments
About 32
Favorites 36
Freezing 37
Missing plug-ins 36
Setting up 34
External section 220
Extracting
Audio from video 678, 688
Audio to MIDI (VariAudio) 366
MIDI Automation 480
Voices 789
Extracting chord events from
MIDI 552
F
Fade handles 143
Fade In/Out functions 145
Fader section (MixConsole) 185
Fades
Auto fades 149
Creating 143
Editing in dialog 145
Presets 146
Processing 145
Removing 145
With Range Selection tool 144
Fill Loop 74
Filter bar
List Editor 522
Filtering
MIDI in Project Browser 634
MIDI messages 130
FireWire DV Output 672
Fit Page/Width 733
Fixed lengths 477
Fixed stem length 778
Fixed tempo 610
Fixed velocity 478
Flat ties 805
Flip
Crescendo 834
Slurs and Ties 831
Stems 540, 791
Folder parts 98
Folder tracks
Creating 97
Group editing 99
Hiding data 98
Moving tracks into 97
Muting and soloing 98
Showing data 98
Working with 97