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Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Part I: Getting into the details
- About this manual
- 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
- Startup Options
- 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
- Fades, crossfades and envelopes
- The arranger track
- The transpose functions
- Using markers
- The Mixer
- 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
- Expression maps (Cubase only)
- Note Expression (Cubase only)
- 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
- Scoring for drums
- Creating tablature
- The score and MIDI playback
- Tips and Tricks
- Index
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Table of Contents
374 The MIDI editors
375 Introduction
375 Opening a MIDI editor
377 The Key Editor – Overview
380 Key Editor operations
396 The In-Place Editor
397 The Drum Editor – Overview
398 Drum Editor operations
400 Working with drum maps
403 Using drum name lists
404 The List Editor – Overview
405 List Editor operations
407 Working with SysEx messages
409 Recording SysEx parameter changes
409 Editing SysEx messages
411 The basic Score Editor – Overview
412 Score Editor operations
419 Expression maps (Cubase only)
420 Introduction
421 Using expression maps in Cubase
424 Creating and editing expression maps
428 Note Expression (Cubase only)
429 Introduction
430 Setting up the Note Expression Inspector tab
431 Mapping controllers
432 Recording
434 Editing Note Expression data
437 Note Expression and MIDI
439 HALion Sonic SE
440 The Logical Editor, Transformer, and
Input Transformer
441 Introduction
441 Opening the Logical Editor
442 Window overview
442 Setting up filter conditions
447 Selecting a function
447 Specifying actions
450 Applying the defined actions
450 Working with presets
450 The Input Transformer
452 The Project Logical Editor
(Cubase only)
453 Introduction
453 Opening the Project Logical Editor
453 Window overview
454 Setting up filter conditions
458 Specifying actions
460 Selecting a function
460 Applying Macros
460 Applying the defined actions
460 Working with presets
462 Editing tempo and signature
463 Background
463 Tempo and signature display
465 Editing tempo and signature
467 Process Tempo (Cubase only)
467 The Process Bars dialog (Cubase only)
468 The Beat Calculator
469 Merge Tempo From Tapping (Cubase only)
469 The Time Warp tool (Cubase only)
473 Tempo Detection (Cubase only)
476 Adjusting the audio to the project tempo
477 The Project Browser (Cubase only)
478 Window Overview
479 Editing tracks
484 Export Audio Mixdown
485 Introduction
485 Mixing down to audio files
486 The Export Audio Mixdown dialog
489 The available file formats
493 Synchronization
494 Background
494 Timecode (positional references)
496 Clock sources (speed references)
496 The Project Synchronization Setup dialog
500 Synchronized operation
500 Example scenarios (Cubase only)
501 Working with VST System Link
503 Activating VST System Link