Steinberg Cubase 5 Operation Manual

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How the Score Editor works
Using Rests as Display Quantize setting
Above we used Display Quantize for notes. There is a sim-
ilar Display Quantize setting called “Rests” which is used 
to set the smallest rest to be displayed. Often, this setting 
is very effective:
Let’s start with the following note example:
As you see, the first note appears one sixteenth note late. 
If we change the Display Quantize value for notes to 
eighth notes, the score will be displayed like this:
With Display Quantize:...

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How the Score Editor works
Entering notes by hand vs. recording 
notes
Sometimes you will enter and edit notes by hand (or rather 
using the mouse and/or the computer keyboard) and at 
other times you will record them from a MIDI keyboard. 
Most of the time, you will do a combination of both. In the 
chapter “Transcribing MIDI recordings” on page 505 you 
will find out how to make a recorded score as legible as 
possible without making any permanent changes to the 
MIDI data. The chapter “Entering...

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About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
 How to open the Score Editor.
 How to switch between Page Mode and Edit Mode.
 How to set up the page size and margins.
 How to hide and show the Symbols Inspector, the toolbar and 
the extended toolbar.
 How to set up the ruler.
 How to set a zoom factor.
 How to make initial settings for key, clef and time signature.
 How to transpose instruments.
 How to print and export your score.
Preparations
1.In the Project Window, create a MIDI...

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Page Mode
When you are preparing a score for printout, you should 
set the Score Editor to Page Mode. This is done by se-
lecting Page Mode from the Scores menu. When Page 
Mode is activated, a checkmark will appear next to this 
menu option.
Page Mode is activated.
In Page mode, the window switches to display one page 
at a time, as it will appear on printout.
Page Mode vs. Edit Mode
When Page Mode is not activated, the Score Editor is in 
Edit Mode. All you can do in Edit Mode, you can...

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Using the Zoom tool
The Zoom tool in the Score Editor works much like in the 
Project window:
Click once with the Zoom tool to zoom in one step.
Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and click once with the Zoom 
tool to zoom out one step.
Drag a rectangle with the Zoom tool to set a custom 
zoom factor.
The section encompassed by the rectangle is zoomed to fill the window.
Hold down a modifier key and right-click with the Zoom 
tool to open the Zoom context menu, and select the de-
sired Zoom...

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The info line
The info line displays information about the selected note. 
It can be hidden/displayed by clicking the “Show Info” 
button on the toolbar, or by using a key command, by de-
fault [Ctrl]/[Command]-[I].
The extended toolbar
The extended toolbar can be displayed/hidden by clicking 
the “Show Tool Strip” button on the main toolbar.
The display filter bar
This area contains checkboxes determining which indica-
tors, handles and other non-printed elements should be 
shown in the...

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The Position Info window
To help you further when positioning objects in the score, 
Page Mode has a special Position Info window, in which 
you can view and adjust object positions numerically, in 
the unit selected for the ruler. To display the Position Info 
window, click in the ruler.
Showing and hiding “invisible” elements
Some of the elements in the score will not be printed, but 
rather serve as indicators for layout changes, handles, etc. 
These elements can be hidden or shown in...

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Setting key, clef and time signature
When preparing to enter notes into a score, you will prob-
ably want to start out by setting the desired key, clef and 
time signature for the staff. The text below assumes you 
are working on one track only. If you have multiple staves, 
you either make this setting independently for each staff or 
for all staves at once. See “Staff settings” on page 507.
Normally, all these symbols appear at the beginning of 
each staff. However, you can control this...

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If you need to enter half a bar somewhere (for example) 
you have to make a time signature change (e.g. from 4/4 
to 2/4 and back again). See “Inserting and editing clefs, 
keys or time signatures” on page 522 to find out how to 
enter time signature changes.
Composite time signatures and the For Grouping Only 
option
For composite signatures, the numerator can be made up 
of up to four groups. For example, “4+4+3+/” on the upper 
line and 8 on the lower means the time signature is 11/8....