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Automatic grouping
The program can also go through the selected notes and 
automatically create grouping for you, where it is deemed 
suitable. Proceed as follows:
1.Select the notes that you want checked for auto-
grouping.
Typically, you would select all notes on the track by using the Select All 
command on the Edit menu.
2.Right-click on one of the notes and select “Auto 
Group Notes” from the context menu.
In 4/4 you get for example two groups of eighth notes...

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Beam appearance and slant settings
Global settings
In the Score Settings dialog, on the Project page (Nota-
tion Style subpage), you can find the following three op-
tions for beam appearance in the Beams category:
•Thick Beams.
Activate this if you want beams to be displayed as thick lines.
•Show Small Slants as Flat Beams.
When this is activated, beams that would be only slightly slanted are dis-
played flat.
Without and with “Show Small Slants as Flat Beams”...

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The last case requires some explanation: Cubase uses a 
“cutting mechanism” that automatically creates tied notes 
depending on the length and position of the notes. For ex
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ample, a quarter note is cut in two and tied if it crosses a 
half note beat, and an eighth note is cut in two and tied if it 
crosses a quarter note beat:
However, this is not always what you want. There are 
three ways to affect the cutting mechanism:
Syncopation
When the Syncopation option...

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Other options for tied notes
Tie direction
As described in the section “Tie pop-up menu” on page 
607, you can set the direction of the tie manually in the 
Set Note Info dialog.
Flat ties
If you prefer ties to be displayed as flat lines, rather than 
regular “curved” ties, activate the “Flat Ties” option in the 
Score Settings dialog, on the Project–Notation Style sub
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page (H.W. Henze Style category).
Graphic moving of notes
There might be instances where the...

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A quick example
Let’s say you have a flute part and want some cue notes 
for it:
1.Switch on polyphonic voices and activate voice 1 and 
voice 2.
2.Set voice 2 to “Auto” stem direction and centered 
rests.
3.Set up voice 1 to be a cue voice, with hidden rests 
and stems pointing up.
4.Insert the cue notes into voice 1.
Turning individual notes into cue notes
1.Select one or several notes.
2.Double-click one of the notes.
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4.Click Apply.
The settings are applied to the selected notes.
5.Close the dialog.
Converting grace notes to normal notes
1.Select the notes that you want to convert.
If you want to make sure that all notes in the score are normal notes, you 
can select all notes (using the Select All command on the Edit menu).
2.Double-click on one of the selected grace notes.
The Set Note Info dialog appears.
3.Select “Normal” from the “Type” pop-up menu.
4.Click Apply.
Tuplets...

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Without permanent change to MIDI data
1.Select the notes in the tuplet group.
In this case, the notes play back correctly but are not displayed as a tu-plet (yet).
2.Select “Build N-Tuplet…” from the Scores menu to 
bring up the Tuplets dialog.
3.Make settings in the dialog, as described above.
4.Click Quantize.
Now the tuplet is displayed correctly. You can make additional settings 
for how the tuplet should appear, as described below.
5.If necessary, adjust the...

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Working with symbols 

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About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
• What the different types of symbols are.
• How to insert and edit symbols.
• Details about special symbols.
Background: The different layers
A score page is always made up of three layers – the note 
layer, the layout layer and the project layer. When you add 
symbols, these are inserted into one of these layers, de
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pending on the type of symbol. The symbols that have a re-
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Which symbols are part of which layer is described in the 
section 
“The available symbols” on page 621 and onwards.
The Symbols Inspector
To display the Symbols Inspector, click the “Set up Win-
dow Layout” button on the toolbar and activate the Sym-
bols option.
Customizing the Symbols Inspector
You can customize the appearance of the Symbols Inspec-
tor by showing/hiding tabs and by specifying their order in 
the Inspector.
Showing/Hiding Symbols Inspector tabs
If you...