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Splitting multi-rests
To divide one long multiple rest into several shorter ones, 
proceed as follows:
1.Double-click on the multi-rest symbol.
The Split Multi-Rest dialog appears:
2.In the dialog, enter the bar number where you want the 
first split.
3.Click OK.
If you need more splits, double-click on any multi-rest symbol and pro-
ceed as above.
Multi-rest appearance
The Score Settings–Project page contains several sub-
pages, on which you can make settings for multi-rests:
The subpage “Notation Style” contains the following 
settings concerning multi-rests:
On the Spacings subpage of the dialog, you can adjust 
the height and width of multi-rest symbols.
On the Text Settings subpage, you can select a font for 
the multi-rest numbers (select “Multi-Rests” in the “Font 
For” pop-up menu and make the desired settings).
Editing bar lines
Editing existing bar lines
For each bar line, you can choose whether you want a reg-
ular, single bar line, a double bar line, a repeat sign, etc.
1.Double-click on the bar line for which you want to edit 
the settings.
A dialog appears with a number of bar line types.
2.If you wish the bar line to be shown with “brackets”, 
activate the Brackets checkbox.
This is only relevant for repeat signs.
3.Click on the desired bar line type.
The dialog closes and the bar line type is changed.
4.If you do not want to display bar lines at the beginning 
of the parts, open the Score Settings–Project page, on 
the Notation Style subpage (Bar Lines category) and acti-
vate the option “Hide First Bar line in Parts”.
ÖThe bar line types are part of the Project layer – any 
changes you make will be reflected in all layouts.
!The program automatically splits multi-rests at time 
signature changes, double bar lines, repeat signs 
and rehearsal marks.
Option Description
Multi-Rests – 
Church StyleWhen this is activated, multi-rests are shown in “church 
style” (vertical bars), rather than with the regular, hori-
zontal symbols.
Multi-Rests – 
Numbers above 
SymbolWhen this is activated, the numbers are shown above 
the multi-rest symbol, instead of below it.
Multi-Rests – 
Snap Rests 
moved with the 
Layout toolWhen this is activated, rests will automatically snap to 
“intelligent” positions in the score (i.e. positions used in 
regular notation) when moved with the layout tool. If this 
is deactivated, rests can be positioned freely.
Bar numbers – 
Show Range 
with Multi-RestsWhen this is activated, and bar numbers are displayed, 
the bar numbers of a multi-rest will be shown as a range. 
						

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Creating upbeats
By using the Pickup Bar feature
With this method, the upbeat actually contains exactly the 
number of beats displayed. That is, if you have an upbeat 
of one beat, your project starts with one bar in 1/4 time.
1.Change the time signature of the first bar to the length 
of the upbeat.
2.Insert a time signature of the correct kind (the time sig-
nature used throughout the project) in the second bar.
To insert a time signature, select it in the “Time Sign” section in the Sym-
bols Inspector and click in the Score with the Pencil tool.
3.Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar.
The first bar before making any adjustments
4.Double-click the time signature for the upbeat bar.
The Edit Time Signature dialog appears.
5.Activate the option “Pickup Bar” and click OK.
Now, the time signature of the first bar takes on the look of 
the second bar’s signature, while the time signature in the 
second bar is hidden:
6.If you use bar numbers, double-click on the first bar 
number and enter an offset of -1. 
7.Adjust the display of bar numbers and hide the “0” in 
the first measure.
By hiding rests
With this method, the first bar will actually have the same 
time signature as the following bars – it will only look like 
an upbeat bar:
1.Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar.
The first bar before making any adjustments
2.Hide the rests that precede the notes.
3.Drag the bar line between measure one and two to ad-
just the width of the bar.
After hiding the rest and dragging the bar line
4.If you like, move the notes in the upbeat measure, us-
ing the Layout tool.
5.If you use bar numbers, adjust them as described in 
the previous example.
The final upbeat
Setting the number of bars across 
the page
Automatically
When you open a new combination of tracks for editing, 
the number of bars across the page is determined by the 
setting “Default Number of Bars per Staff” in the Preferen-
ces dialog (Scores–Editing page).
In the Auto Layout dialog (see “Auto Layout” on page 
606), you can set the maximum number of bars across the 
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Manually
In Page Mode, you have full control over the number of 
bars appearing across the page, by using the Number of 
Bars dialog or the tools. 
ÖIf you want to use the “Max. number of Bars” option in 
the Auto Layout dialog (see “Auto Layout” on page 606), 
you should do this before you adjust the number of bars 
manually.
Using the Number of Bars dialog
1.Make a staff active in the system where you want to 
make changes.
This means that if everything looks fine until for example the fifth system, 
activate one of the staves in this system.
2.Pull down the Scores menu and select “Number Of 
Bars” from the Advanced Layout submenu.
The Number of Bars dialog is displayed.
3.Set the desired number of bars across the page.
To change the number of bars for the active staff only, 
click “This Staff”.
To change the number of bars for the active staff and all 
following staves, click “All Staves”.
In other words, to set all systems on all pages to the same number of 
bars, make the very first staff active and use the All Staves option.
Using the tools
To make a bar “fall down” on a new staff, use the Split 
tool to click on its bar line.
Before and after moving the third bar one staff down
To bring the bar back up to the previous staff, use the 
Glue tool to click on the last bar line on the upper of the 
two staves.
This will in fact move all measures in the lower staff up to the upper.
Moving bar lines
The following operations can be made using the regular 
Object Selection tool or the Layout tool.
Moving a bar line
If you drag a bar line to the left or right, the surrounding 
bars are adjusted proportionally.
Moving bar lines on all staves
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] when dragging a bar line, 
all bar lines below the one you drag will be moved accord-
ingly.
Moving a single bar line separately
If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging a bar 
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Making an indent on one line
To create an indent, simply drag the first or last bar line 
on a staff.
The sizes of all measures are adjusted proportionally.
Before and after dragging the first bar line on the first staff
Making indents on several lines
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the first or last bar 
line in a system, all following systems will get the same in-
dent. If you want all lines on all pages to be modified in the 
same way, hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the appro-
priate bar line on the first system of the score.
The last bar line in the score
Cubase attempts to move the last bar line and space the 
bars on the last line in a sensible way. But you can change 
this manually by dragging the last bar line, if you like. To 
change the type of the last bar line, double-click it and se-
lect the desired type.
Resetting bar spacing
To reset the bar spacing to standard values for several 
lines, proceed as follows:
1.Locate the first line for which you want to reset the bar 
spacing, and make one staff in that system active.
2.Select “Number of Bars” from the Advanced Layout 
submenu on the Scores menu.
3.Specify the number of bars that you already have on 
the line.
4.Click on “This Staff”.
Clicking “All Staves” will reset the lines of all staves in the score, see 
“Using the Number of Bars dialog” on page 603.
5.Close the dialog.
The bar spacing is reset for the currently selected staff and all following 
staves.
Dragging staves
For the following operations, you can use the Object Se-
lection tool or the Layout tool.
ÖDragging staves can only be done in Page Mode.
Adding space between two grand staves
1.Locate the first staff in the lower of the two systems 
you wish to spread apart.
2.Click just to the left of the first bar line and keep the 
mouse button pressed. 
The entire staff is selected.
3.Drag downwards until you have reached the desired 
distance between the staves and release the mouse button.
Before…
…and after dragging the upper system
Setting the same distance between all grand 
staves
1.Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the first staff of the 
second system, until you have reached the desired dis-
tance between this and the first system.
2.Release the mouse button.
The distances between all the systems will be adjusted accordingly.
!This operation affects the system you drag and all 
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Setting the distance between staves within a 
grand staff
1.Locate the lower staff in the grand staff you wish to 
spread apart.
2.Click just to the left of its first bar line and keep the 
mouse button pressed. 
The entire staff gets selected.
3.Drag downwards or upwards and release the mouse 
button.
The new distance is set for the two staves.
Setting the same distance between staves in 
several systems
1.Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the desired staff as 
described above.
2.Release the mouse button.
The corresponding staves in all following systems are moved accordingly.
Moving one staff only
You may wish to move one staff without affecting any 
other staff in any way:
1.Hold down [Ctrl]/[Command].
2.Drag any staff as described above.
Moving staves between pages
By using the “Move to Next/Previous Page” commands on 
the Staff context menu, you can quickly edit the page 
breaks.
Moving staves to the next page
1.Locate and activate the staff you want to move to the 
top of the next page.
This can be any staff except the first staff on the page.
2.Right-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff, 
and select “Move to Next Page” from the context menu.
The active staff (and any following staves on the page) are moved to the 
next page.
Moving staves to the previous page
1.Make the staff at the top of the page the active staff.
If any other staff is active, the option “Move to Previous Page” cannot be 
used. Also, the function will not work for the first staff on the first page.
2.Right-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff, 
and select “Move to Previous Page” from the context menu.
The active staff, and as many of the following staves as there are room 
for, are moved to the previous page. If the previous page is already “full”, 
nothing will happen.
Adding brackets and braces
Brackets and braces are added on the Score Settings–
Layout page. The settings you make are specific for the 
current layout, i.e. you can have different brackets or 
braces set up for different track configurations.
1.Open the Score Settings–Layout page.
In the Track list, you will find columns for braces ( { ) and brackets ( [ ).
2.Click in one of the columns and drag downwards in 
the list to encompass the desired staves.
The column indicates graphically which staves will be encompassed by 
the brace or bracket.
Dragging the staves in a piano system apart.
Click at the first staff for 
which you want a bracket 
or brace…
…and drag downwards 
in the list to enclose the 
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3.Close the dialog.
The score is displayed with brackets or braces according to the settings 
you made.
You can edit brackets and braces in the dialog by drag-
ging the ends of the indicator in the list.
To remove a bracket or brace, click on its indicator in 
the list.
ÖYou can automatically get broken bar lines based on 
the brackets you have added – see “Breaking bar lines” 
on page 608.
ÖIf the option “Show Braces in Edit Mode” is activated 
in the Preferences dialog (Scores–Editing page), brackets 
and braces are shown in Edit Mode as well.
Auto Layout
This item on the Scores menu brings up a dialog with sev-
eral options. Activating one of these makes the program 
“go through” the score and make adjustments to measure 
widths, staff distances, etc. Exactly which parts and prop-
erties of the score are affected depends on which option 
you activate/deactivate.ÖYou can also open the Auto Layout dialog by clicking 
the Auto Layout button on the extended toolbar.
Move bars
This option looks at the currently active grand staff, and 
attempts to adjust the measure widths, so that all notes 
and symbols get as much room as possible. The number 
of bars on the staff is not affected.
You can perform this function for several staves in one 
go, by dragging a selection rectangle over their left edges, 
and then selecting Move Bars.
Move Staves
This changes the measure width (as with Move Bars) but 
also the vertical staff distance, of the active staff and all 
following staves.
Spread Page
This corrects the vertical layout of the staves on the cur-
rent page, so that they “fit onto the page”. In other words, 
this removes white space at the bottom of the page.
Hide Empty Staves
This hides all empty staves, from the active staff to the end 
of the score. Note that polyphonic/split staves are in this 
case treated as one entity, if the clef in the upper system 
differs from that in the lower system. That is, a piano staff 
is considered “empty” only if there are no notes on either 
staff.
If you have activated the “Hidden” option on the Filter 
Bar, hidden staves are indicated by a marker with the text 
“Hide:Name” (where “Name” is the staff name).
To display hidden staves, delete their “Hide” markers.
If you activate the option “Auto Layout: Don’t hide first 
staff” in the Preferences dialog (Scores–Editing page), 
staves in the very first grand staff will not be hidden, even 
if they are empty.
This is useful for example if you are creating an orchestra score, and want 
to show the complete “layout” of the orchestra on the first page of the 
score, without hiding anything.
!The automatic layout adjustments are done just as if 
you yourself had made them manually. This means 
that if there is something you do not like, you can al-
ways change it manually, as described above. 
						

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All Pages
Activate this if you want to apply the options above to all 
pages. Please note that this setting will be applied to the 
active staff and onwards. If you want all pages in the score 
to be affected, you have to make the very first staff (the 
first staff on the first page) the active staff.
Move Bars and Staves
This is a combination of “Move Bars”, “Move Staves”, and 
“All Pages”, plus automatic calculation of the number of 
bars across the page – the function tries to optimize the 
number of bars across the page for each staff (with the 
maximum number of bars as set in the dialog).
Optimize All
All of the above in one fell swoop. This procedure might 
take some time but usually yields great results.
Other functions
In the lower part of the dialog, the following options are 
available:
ÖThe functions “Move Bars” and “Move All Bars” 
(“Move Bars” + “All Pages”) can also be accessed via the 
Staff context menu (opened by right-clicking on the blue 
rectangle to the left of the active staff).
Reset Layout
This function allows you to delete invisible layout elements, 
which in effect restores the score to default settings.
1.Select “Reset Layout…” from the Scores menu.
The Reset Layout dialog appears.
The following options are available:
2.Activate the items you want to delete or reset to stan-
dard settings.
3.Click on “This Staff” to clean up the active staff only, or 
on “All Staves” to clean up all staves in the score.
Setting Description
Auto Space/
Page ModeThe higher the value, the more space is allowed for 
each element in the score (and thus, the fewer the 
bars across the page).
Minimum Distance 
between StavesWhen you use an Auto Layout function that moves 
staves (changes the vertical staff distance), this set-
ting determines the minimum distance between the 
staves.
Minimum Distance 
between Grand 
StavesThis sets the minimum distance between Grand 
Staves in the same way.
Add to Auto Layout 
DistanceThis number is added to the distance between staves 
that will be added when you use any of the Auto Lay-
out functions. The higher the number, the larger the 
distance between staves.
‘Spread Page’ 
Bottom DistanceThis will be added to the white space that appears on 
the bottom of a page when using the Spread Page 
functions. 
Max. Number 
of BarsThis allows you to specify the maximum number of 
bars per staff when using the “Bars and Staves” or 
“Optimize All” functions.
Option Description
Hidden Notes Makes all hidden notes permanently visible again.
Hidden Makes all other hidden objects permanently visible again.
Quantize Deletes all Display Quantize elements.
Layout tool Resets all positions of notes, clefs, slurs and ties altered 
using the Layout tool.
Grouping Resets the grouping under beams to standard values.
Cutflag Deletes all cutflag events.
Stems/Beams Resets the length of all stems and reset the slant of 
beams that have been manually adjusted.
Coordinates Removes all manual spacing of note symbols and slurs. 
						

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Breaking bar lines
Sometimes you may not want a bar line to stretch all the 
way across a grand staff. If this is the case, you have the 
possibility to “break it”.
Manually
Breaking bar lines in one grand staff
1.Select the Erase tool.
2.Click on a bar line connecting the two staves.
All bar lines between these two staves (except the first and last) are bro-
ken. To break the first or last bar line in a grand staff, you need to click di-
rectly on these.
Before and after splitting the bar lines between two staves.
Breaking bar lines in several grand staves
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] and click on a bar line as 
described above, the corresponding bar lines are broken 
in all following grand staves.
Re-connecting broken bar lines 
If you have broken the bar lines, you can use the Glue tool 
to connect them again.
1.Select the Glue tool.
2.Click on one of the bar lines in the staff above the bro-
ken bar lines.
All bar lines between these staves in this grand staff are connected.
To re-connect bar lines in several grand staves, hold 
down [Alt]/[Option] and click with the Glue tool.
The bar lines between the corresponding staves are connected in all fol-
lowing grand staves.
Automatically
If you have added brackets for some staves on the Score 
Settings–Layout page (see “Adding brackets and braces” 
on page 605), you can have bar lines broken between 
each bracketed “section”, giving a clearer indication of 
which staves belong together:
1.Open the Score Settings dialog from the Score menu 
and, on the Project page, select the “Notation Style” sub-
page.
2.In the Bar Lines section, locate and activate the option 
“Break Bar Lines with Brackets”.
The option Break Last Brackets determines whether the 
breaking of bar lines should also apply to the bar line at 
the end of each row. 
						

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Scoring for drums 
						

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Scoring for drums
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
 How to set up the drum map.
 How to set up a staff for drum notes.
 How to enter and edit drum notes.
 How to use a single line drum staff.
Background: Drum maps in the 
Score Editor
When scoring for drums, you can assign a unique note 
head to each pitch. There is even the possibility to set up 
different note heads for different note values!
However, to be able to fully use this function, you need to 
understand a bit about drum maps, and the use of these in 
the Score Editor.
About drum maps
Cubase handles drum editing by means of drum maps 
(see the chapter “The MIDI editors” on page 337). In the 
Score Editor, the drum map displays different note heads 
for different pitches.
You access the drum map by selecting “Drum Map Setup” 
from the MIDI menu.
The Drum Map Setup dialog
Pitch vs. Display Note
In the Drum Map Setup dialog you will find a column Pitch 
and a column Display Note.
 The Pitch corresponds to the I-note for the drum sound and 
cannot be edited here.
 The Display Note value is used to set where the note should 
be displayed vertically. It can be thought of as a Display Trans-
pose setting that is unique for each note. This only affects how 
the note is displayed, not how it is recorded etc.
Use Score Drum Map on/off
For the drum map settings to be used in the score, you 
need to activate “Use Score Drum Map” in the Score Set-
tings–Staff page (Options tab).
Setting up the drum map
Basic settings
1.Open the Score Editor for the drums track.
This should be a MIDI track to which you have assigned a drum map.
2.On the Score Settings–Staff page (Options tab), acti-
vate the option “Use Score Drum Map”.
3.On the MIDI menu, select “Drum Map Setup”.
The Drum Map Setup dialog appears.
4.Make settings for the sounds/MIDI notes you need.
The dialog contains the following options:
Option Description
Pitch This corresponds to the I-note of the sound in the drum 
map, and cannot be edited here.
Instrument The name of the drum sound in the map.
Display Note The display pitch, i.e. the pitch at which the note will be 
shown in the score. For example, you typically want all 
three hi-hat sounds to be shown on the same system line 
in the score (but with different symbols). Therefore, you 
set these to the same display pitch.