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Additional note and rest formatting
The last case requires some explanation: Cubase uses a
“cutting mechanism” that automatically creates tied notes
depending on the length and position of the notes. For ex
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ample, a quarter note is cut in two and tied if it crosses a
half note beat, and an eighth note is cut in two and tied if it
crosses a quarter note beat:
However, this is not always what you want. There are
three ways to affect the cutting mechanism:
Syncopation
When the Syncopation option is activated on the Main tab
of the Staff page in the Score Settings dialog, Cubase is
less prone to cut and tie notes. For example, the second
quarter note in the figure above would not have been cut if
syncopation had been activated.
The Syncopation setting affects the whole track, but you
can also make syncopation settings for separate sections
in the score, by inserting display quantize events (see
“In-
serting Display Quantize changes” on page 571).
Time signature changes
By inserting time signature changes, you can change the
way notes are cut. This is done in the same way as when
you specify how beamed notes are grouped – see
“Grouping” on page 608.
The Cut Notes tool
By using the Cut Notes tool, you can disable the auto-
matic cutting mechanism in a bar, and insert manual cuts
at any given position in the score.
Proceed as follows:
1. Select the Cut Notes tool.
2. Select a suitable quantize value from the “Quantize
Presets” pop-up menu.
As usual, this determines where you can click.
3. When you are using polyphonic voices, select the
voice you want to make settings for.
4. Click in the bar containing the notes that you want to
cut manually, at the position you want them cut.
This inserts a cutflag event in the bar at the position you clicked. If you
hold down [Alt]/[Option], a cutflag event is inserted for all voices in a
polyphonic staff.
The following rules apply to cutflag events:
• If a bar contains a cutflag event, the automatic cutting mecha-
nism is disabled within that bar.
• All notes or rests that start before and end after a cutflag event
are cut at the position of the event.
• To display cutflag events, make sure that “Cutflag” is activated
on the filter bar.
• To remove a cutflag event, either click again with the Cut
Notes tool at the same position, or select it and press [Back
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space] or [Delete].
This quarter note is cut. This eighth note is cut.
With a regular 4/4 time
signature
With a composite time
signature (3+2+3 eighth
notes)
A half note, placed at 2.1.3. This is by default cut at 2.3.1 (the middle
of the bar). When you click at the position 2.2.1, a cutflag event is
inserted.
As a result, the regular cutting mechanism is disabled and the note is
cut at the position you clicked instead.