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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
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tance between this and the first system.
2.Release the mouse button.
The distances between all the systems are adjusted accordingly.
Setting the distance between staves within a 
grand staff
1.Locate the lower staff in the grand staff that you want 
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 want 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.
!This operation affects the system you drag and all 
following systems.
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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 “Move to Previous Page” option cannot be 
used. Also, the function does 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 happens.
Adding brackets and braces
Brackets and braces are added on the Layout page of the 
Score Settings dialog. 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 and select the Layout page.
In the track list, you can 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 are encompassed by the 
brace or bracket.
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 674.
ÖIf the “Show Braces in Edit Mode” option 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
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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.
Click at the first staff for 
which you want a bracket 
or brace…
…and drag downwards in 
the list to enclose the 
desired staves.
!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-
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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 “Auto Layout: Don’t hide first staff” 
option in the Preferences dialog (Scores–Editing page), 
staves in the very first grand staff are not 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.
All Pages
Activate this if you want to apply the options above to all 
pages. Please note that this setting is 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 rectan
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gle to the left of the active staff).
SettingDescription
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 is added when you use any of the Auto Layout 
functions. The higher the number, the larger the dis
-tance between staves.
‘Spread Page’ 
Bottom DistanceThis is added to the white space that appears on the 
bottom of a page when using the Spread Page func-tions. 
Max. Number  of BarsThis allows you to specify the maximum number of 
bars per staff when using the “Bars and Staves” or 
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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.
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.
OptionDescription
Hidden NotesMakes all hidden notes permanently visible again.
HiddenMakes all other hidden objects permanently visible again.
QuantizeDeletes all Display Quantize elements.
Layout toolResets all positions of notes, clefs, slurs and ties altered 
using the Layout tool.
GroupingResets the grouping under beams to standard values.
CutflagDeletes all cutflag events.
Stems/BeamsResets the length of all stems and reset the slant of 
beams that have been manually adjusted.
CoordinatesRemoves all manual spacing of note symbols and slurs. 
						

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Automatically
If you have added brackets for some staves on the Layout 
page of the Score Settings dialog (see 
“Adding brackets 
and braces” on page 672), you can have bar lines broken 
between each bracketed “section”, giving a clearer indica-
tion 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
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page.
2.In the Bar Lines section, locate and activate the “Break 
Bar Lines with Brackets” option.
•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 374). In the Score 
Editor, the drum map displays different note heads for dif-
ferent pitches.
You access the drum map by selecting “Drum Map Setup” 
from the MIDI menu.
Use Score Drum Map on/off
For the drum map settings to be used in the score, you 
need to activate the “Use Score Drum Map” option in the 
Score Settings dialog on the 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.Open the Score Settings dialog and select the Staff 
page.
3.Select the Options tab and activate the “Use Score 
Drum Map” option.
4.On the MIDI menu, select “Drum Map Setup”.
The Drum Map Setup dialog appears.
5.Make settings for the sounds/MIDI notes you need.
The dialog contains the following score-related options:
OptionDescription
PitchThis corresponds to the I-note of the sound in the drum 
map, and cannot be edited here.
InstrumentThe name of the drum sound in the map.
Display NoteThe display pitch, i.e. the pitch at which the note are 
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.
Head SymbolClicking in this column opens a window in which you can 
select a note head symbol for the sound. If “Use Head 
Pairs” is activated in the dialog, you can select a note 
head pair instead.
VoiceThis allows you to make all notes with this pitch belong to 
a certain voice, so that they get a common rest handling 
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Initializing the display pitches
If you select “Init Display Notes” from the Functions pop-
up menu in the top left corner of the Drum Map Setup dia
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log, all display pitch values are reset, so that actual pitch 
and display pitch are the same for each sound/note.
Using note head pairs
Not only can you have different drum sounds displayed 
with different note heads, you can also display different 
note heads for different note values:
1.Activate the “Use Head Pairs” checkbox.
The “Head Symbol” column now shows two head symbols for each drum 
sound.
All head symbols are arranged in pairs – by default an “empty” head 
and a “filled” head. Just as with regular notes, the “empty” note heads 
are used with half notes and larger note values, and the “filled” heads 
are used with quarter notes and smaller note values.
2.To select a head pair for a drum sound/note, click in 
the Head symbol column to open the pop-up menu and 
choose the new head pair.
Customizing note head pairs
If you do not like the default pairs of note heads, you can 
edit these:
1.On the Functions pop-up menu, select “Edit head 
pairs”.
2.To change a symbol in a pair, click on it and select a 
new symbol from the pop-up menu.
3.When you are done, click Exit to close the dialog.
Editing the drum map in the score
If you activate the “Edit in Scores” option in the Drum Map 
Setup dialog, you can change the settings for the score 
drum map directly in the score:
•Transposing a note changes the display pitch of its 
drum sound – the actual note is not transposed.
•Double-clicking a note allows you to make note head 
settings for that drum sound.
•Using the “Move to Voice” function changes the voice 
assignment of the drum sound.
ÖThis requires that you leave the Drum Map Setup dia-
log open – closing the dialog automatically deactivates 
this option, allowing you to perform normal editing.
!Please note that many different drum maps can be 
created for a project. Which one you get depends on 
which drum map is assigned to the edited track. 
These drum maps are totally independent of one an
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other, i.e. each pitch can have different settings in 
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Setting up a staff for drum scoring
1.Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and 
select the Options tab.
2.Make sure that “Use Score Drum Map” is activated.
3.If you want a single line drum staff, activate the corres-
ponding option (see “Using “Single Line Drum Staff”” on 
page 679).
4.If you want flat beams, activate the corresponding op-
tion (see “Handling beaming” on page 608).
5.If you want all stems to end at the same position, acti-
vate Fixed Stems and set a length for up/down stems.
•You may also want to use polyphonic voices to handle 
rest and stem separately. 
However, you can still activate the “Fixed Stems” option if you like. See 
the chapter “Polyphonic voicing” on page 593 for more information 
about polyphonic voices.
Entering and editing notes
This is like entering notes on a normal note system. How-
ever, Notes are edited using their display pitch when the 
drum map is used. This means that when you move a note 
vertically, you move it to another display pitch. What actual 
pitch it gets depends on which pitch uses the display 
pitch you now “dropped it on”.
ÖIf the drum map contains two notes with the same 
pitch (for example Open and Closed HiHat), you can get 
the second note by holding [Ctrl]/[Command].
Using “Single Line Drum Staff”
When this option is activated on the Options tab of the 
Staff page in the Score Settings dialog, there is only one 
line in the system. Furthermore, notes can only appear be
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low the line, on the line and above the line.
To decide which notes go where, proceed as follows:
1.Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and 
select the Options tab.
2.Activate “Use Score Drum Map” and “Single Line 
Drum Staff”.
3.Set up the two pitch values to decide which pitches 
go on the line.
Notes below this range automatically wind up below the line and notes 
above wind up above the line.
!When you enter and edit the pitch of notes on a sin-
gle line drum staff, the best way is to drag the note 
up or down while watching the Mouse Note Position 
display in the status line. 
						

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Creating tablature