Steinberg Cubase 6 Manual

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The basic Score Editor – Overview
This section describes the basic Score Editor, which is 
available in Cubase Artist. The full-featured version of the 
Score Editor that is available in Cubase is described in 
detail in 
“Part II: Score layout and printing (Cubase only)” 
on page 550.
The Score Editor shows MIDI notes as a musical score.
The toolbar
The Score Editor toolbar is similar to the toolbar in the Key 
Editor, but tailored to working with scores:
•There are an Insert Note...

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The extended toolbar
•To show or hide the extended toolbar, click the “Set up 
Window Layout” button and activate or deactivate the 
Tools option.
Note value buttons
Click one of these to select a note value for input. The “T” 
and “.” options are for triplet and dotted note values. You 
can also press [Ctrl]/[Command] and click one of the note 
value buttons – this will resize all selected notes to the 
note value you choose.
Enharmonic Shift
Allows you to manually select whether a...

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Getting the score displayed correctly
When you open the Score Editor for a part recorded in 
real time, the score may not look as legible as you expect. 
The Score Editor can ignore the minor time variances in 
performance and make a neater score almost instantly. To 
achieve this, there are a number of Staff Settings that de
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termine how the program displays the music.
ÖNote that the time signature follows the time signa-
ture(s) set in the Tempo Track Editor, and that these set-...

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Clef and Key
The correct Clef and Key are set using the two scroll bars 
in the Clef/Key section.
If you activate the “Auto Clef” checkbox, the program attempts to guess 
the correct clef, judging from the pitch of the music.
•To set the clef and key for the lower staff, activate the 
“Lower Staff” checkbox in the Clef/Key section.
Display Transpose
Some instruments, for example a lot of brass instruments, 
are scored transposed. For this purpose, the Staff Set
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Applying your settings
After you have made your settings, click Apply to apply 
them to the active staff. You can select another staff in the 
score and make settings for that, without having to close 
the Staff Settings dialog first – just remember to click Ap
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ply before you change staff, otherwise your changes will 
be lost.
Entering notes with the mouse
To enter notes into a part in the Score Editor, you use the 
Note tool. However, first you need to set the note value 
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•To select more notes, hold down [Shift] and click on 
them.
•To deselect notes, hold [Shift] down and click on them 
again.
•If you hold down [Shift] and double-click on a note, this 
note and all the following notes in the same staff are se
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lected.
Using a selection rectangle
1.Press the mouse button with the Arrow tool in some 
free (white) space in the score.
2.Drag the mouse pointer to create a selection rectan-
gle.
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Changing the length of notes
As described earlier (see “Getting the score displayed 
correctly” on page 413), the displayed length of a note is 
not necessarily the actual note length, but also depends 
on the Notes and Rests values for Display Quantize in the 
Staff Settings dialog. This is important to remember when 
you change the length of a note, since it can lead to con
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fusing results.
There are several ways to change the length of a note in 
the Score Editor:
By using the...

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•To delete a text block, select it with the Arrow tool and 
press [Backspace] or [Delete].
•You can move or duplicate text blocks by dragging (or 
[Alt]/[Option]-dragging) them, just as with notes.
Changing the text font, size and style
To change the font settings for the text you have added, 
proceed as follows:
1.Select the text by clicking it with the Arrow tool.
2.Pull down the MIDI menu and select “Set Font…” from 
the Scores submenu.
The Font Settings dialog appears, containing...

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Expression maps (Cubase only) 

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Expression maps (Cubase only)
Introduction
About articulations
Musical articulations, or expressions, define how certain 
notes “sound”, i.
 e. how they are sung or performed on a 
given instrument. They allow you to specify that a string in
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strument is bowed (not plucked), a trumpet muted (not 
played open), and so on. Articulations also define the rela
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tive volume of notes (to play some notes louder or softer 
than the others) or changes in pitch (create a tremolo).
Articulations can be divided...