Steinberg Cubase 6 Manual

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4.Adjust the positioning settings for the text:
5.Select a text attribute set for the text, or make manual 
settings for font, size, and style.
6.Click OK.
The text is inserted. You can adjust the positioning manually by dragging 
the text block.
Inserting variables
When you enter the text, you can also insert special char-
acters or “place holders” for different attributes. When the 
text is displayed, these characters are replaced by their 
actual values (e.g. page numbers). The...

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Text functions
The Words tab
If you have certain words that you use a lot, you can “store” 
these as dedicated symbols on the Words tab. This saves 
time, since you do not have to type the same word over and 
over again.
Storing a word
1.Open the Words symbol tab.
This tab is hidden by default. See “Showing/Hiding Symbols Inspector 
tabs” on page 620 for information on how to display hidden Inspector tabs.
2.Double-click on an “empty” symbol.
The Custom Text Editor dialog appears....

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6.Click OK.
Now all occurrences of the “Find” words are replaced with the “Replace” 
words.
Staff names
You can make settings for staff names in several places:
•In the Score Settings dialog on the Layout page, you 
specify whether the staff names are shown at all and 
whether to use the names of the actual edited tracks in the 
score.
In a multi-track layout, you can choose for which tracks the staff names 
are shown by clicking in the “N” column for each track.
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Offsetting bar numbers
If you double-click on a bar number, a dialog appears, al-
lowing you to skip a number of bars in the otherwise con-
tinuous bar numbering.
This is used for example when a section repeats. Say, you 
have a repeat of bar 7 and 8, and want the first bar after 
the repeat to have the number 11, not 9. To achieve this, 
you double-click on the “9” and insert an offset of “2”.
It is also useful if the score starts with an upbeat, and you 
want the first “real” bar...

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Working with layouts 

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Working with layouts
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
• What layouts are and what they contain.
• How to create layouts.
• How to use layouts for opening combinations of tracks.
• How to apply, load, save and delete layouts.
• How to import and export layouts.
• An example of how layouts can be used.
Background: Layouts
Layouts can be viewed as “presets” containing settings for 
the layout layer: staff spacing, bar lines, layout symbols, etc.
When to use layouts
•You need to format...

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Opening the tracks in a layout
To select another combination of tracks for editing, select 
the corresponding layout in the list.
•You can keep the dialog open while you are editing, and 
use this function for selecting which tracks to edit.
Importing layout symbols
By selecting another layout and selecting “Get Form” from 
the Functions pop-up menu below the list, you import all 
Layout symbols (inserted from the Layout section in the 
Symbols Inspector) from the selected layout...

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Marker Track to Form
If you have created markers in the Project window which 
denote the start of each new “section” in your music (verse, 
bridge, chorus, etc.), you can automatically transfer these 
markers into the current layout:
1.Pull down the Scores menu, open the Advanced Lay-
out submenu and select “Marker Track to Form”.
Now, rehearsal marks and double bar lines are inserted in the score, at 
the position of each marker.
2.If you want the names of the markers shown as...

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Working with MusicXML 

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Working with MusicXML
Introduction
MusicXML is a music notation format developed by Recor-
dare LLC in 2000 based primarily on two academic music 
formats. It allows the representation of scores in the current 
symbolic representation of western music notation, used 
since the 17th century. With Cubase you can now import 
and export MusicXML files created with version 1.1. This 
makes it possible to share and exchange sheet music with 
people who are using score writing programs such as Fi
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nale and...