Steinberg Cubase 5 Operation Manual

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The basics
On the Score Settings–Staff page
1.Click on a staff to make it the active staff.
2.On the Scores menu, select “Settings…” to open the 
Score Settings dialog. Select the Staff page at the top to 
open Main tab, showing the current settings for the active 
staff.
You can also double-click to the left of a staff to make it active and bring 
up the Score Settings dialog in one go (if this does not work, the option 
“Double-click on staff flips between full score/part” in the Preferences...

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On the key context menu
When you right-click on a key symbol, a context menu 
with a list of all available keys is opened. This menu also 
contains the following options:
Key changes for the entire Project
If this option is activated, all changes made to the key will always affect 
the entire project, so that it is not possible to define different keys for dif-
ferent staves.
Hide
If you select this, the key will be hidden.
Properties
If you select this, the Edit Key dialog is opened.
In...

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Transposing instruments
Scores for some instruments, for example a lot of brass in-
struments, are written transposed. Therefore, the Score 
Editor provides a Display Transpose function. With this 
function notes are transposed in the score without affect-
ing the way they are played back. This allows you to 
record and play back a multi-staff arrangement, and still 
score each instrument according to its own transposition.
Setting Display Transpose
1.Make the desired staff active, open...

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 You can adjust the size of the rectangle by clicking and drag-
ging its handles with the Object Selection tool.
 You can move the rectangle to another position in the score 
by clicking and dragging.
To export the selected range, you have two possibilities:
Double-click inside the rectangle while it is selected.
This opens the Export Scores dialog, where you can make settings for 
the file to be created (see below).
Use the Export Scores function, see below.
Exporting
To export the score,...

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About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
 How to prepare your parts for score printouts.
 How to use the Display Quantize tool to handle “exceptions” 
in the score.
 How to resolve parts that contain mixed notes and triplets.
About transcription
This chapter assumes you have a MIDI recording that you 
want to transform into a printable score. However, if the 
parts are fairly complicated, you will probably need to per-
form some manual editing of the notes....

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Staff settings
The first thing to do after opening the Score Editor is to 
make initial staff settings. This is done on the Score Set-
tings–Staff page. There are three ways to open the Score 
Settings dialog:
Make the staff active, pull down the Scores menu and 
select “Settings…”.
Double-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff.
Please note that when the option “Double-click on staff flips between full 
score/part” is activated in the Preferences dialog...

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If you run into trouble
Below you can find a few simple troubleshooting steps 
that will help you pinpoint other common problems:
The note I recorded is displayed with the wrong length. 
For example, I recorded a sixteenth and got a quarter note.
You probably have the wrong Display Quantize value set. Open the Score 
Settings–Staff page. If Auto Quantize is activated, deactivate it, unless you 
have mixed triplets and regular notes. Also check the Notes and Rests Dis-...

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If you are using polyphonic voices (see “Polyphonic voi-
cing” on page 531), you can insert a Display Quantize 
event for all voices by pressing [Alt]/[Option] and clicking 
with the tool.
If the option “Display Quantize Tool affects all Voices” is activated on the 
Score Settings–Project page (Notation Style subpage, in the Miscella-
neous category), Display Quantize events will always be inserted for all 
voices.
Viewing and editing Display Quantize changes
If you...

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Using “Scores Notes To MIDI”
For very complicated scores, there may be situations where 
you have tweaked the parameters for Display Quantize and 
Interpretation as best you can, and you still cannot get the 
score exactly as you want it. Perhaps one setting works fine 
in one section of the track and another is needed for an-
other section.
In such a case, “Scores Notes To MIDI” will help you out. 
It changes the lengths and position of some or all the MIDI 
notes in the...