Steinberg Cubase 7 User 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 724.
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 
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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
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About editing parts on different tracks
If you have selected parts on two or more tracks and open the Score Editor, you will 
get one staff for each track (although you can split a staff in two, e.
 g. when scoring for 
piano). The staves are tied together by bar lines and placed in the order of the tracks 
in the Project window.
•If you need to rearrange the staves: close the editor, go back into the Project 
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Staff Mode
This pop-up menu determines how the staff is shown: 
•When set to “Single”, all notes in the part are shown in the same staff.
•When set to “Split”, the part is split on the screen into a bass and treble clef, as in 
a piano score. 
You use the Split Point value field to set the note where you want the split to occur. 
Notes above and including the split note will appear on the upper staff, and notes 
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Clef and Key
The correct Clef and Key are set using the two scrollbars 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 
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Interpretation Options
These provide additional options for how the score is displayed:
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 Apply before you change 
staff, otherwise your changes will be lost.
Entering notes with the mouse
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Selecting a Quantize value
When you move the mouse pointer over the score, you will see that the Mouse Time 
Position field on the status line tracks your movement and shows the current position 
in bars, beats, sixteenth notes, and ticks.
Positioning on screen is controlled by the current Quantize value. If you set this to 1/8, 
you can only insert and move notes to eighth note positions, at quarter notes, at half 
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Selecting notes
There are several ways to select notes in the Score Editor:
By clicking
To select a note, click on its note head with the Object Selection tool. The note head 
gets red to indicate that it is selected.
•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 
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3.Select the notes that you want to move.
4.Click one of the selected notes and drag it to a new position and/or pitch.
The horizontal movement of the note is “magnetically attracted” to the current 
Quantize value. The position boxes on the toolbar show what the new position and 
pitch for the dragged note will be.
5.Release the mouse.
The notes appear at their new position.
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Enharmonic Shift
The buttons to the right on the extended toolbar allow you to shift the display of 
selected notes so that for example an F# (F sharp) is instead shown as a Gb (G flat) 
and vice versa:
1.Select the note(s) you want to affect.
2.Click on one of the buttons to display the selected note(s) a certain way.
The “off” button resets the notes to original display. The other five options are double flats, 
flats, No (no accidentals shown, regardless of...