Steinberg Cubase 7 User Manual

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Staff settings
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
- How to make staff settings.
- How to work with staff presets.
Staff settings
Below follows a run-through of all staff settings, more detailed information about the 
ones already described and references to other places in the manual for some 
options.
The Staff page has four tabs – here, the Main tab is selected.
Making settings
1.Open the Score Settings and select the Staff page.
2.With the dialog open, make the desired staff...

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Staff settingsWorking with staff presets
•To make settings for another staff, simply make it active in the score (by clicking 
anywhere in the staff or by using the up/down arrow keys on the computer 
keyboard).
However, please note that you need to click Apply before making another staff 
active – otherwise your settings are lost!
Working with staff presets
Making staff settings for your scores can be time-consuming. Staff presets allow you 
to reuse those settings whenever you work with a staff...

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Staff settingsKey and clef
•If you only want the “long name” to be shown (i.e. if you do not want a name shown 
for each system in the score), simply delete the short name.
•If the “Show Long Staff Names on new Pages” option is activated in the “Staff 
Names” section of the Score Settings dialog (Project page), the long name is 
shown at the beginning of each new page.
•You can also specify two separate subnames by double-clicking the staff name 
and entering them in the upper and lower text entry...

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Staff settingsDisplay Quantize and Interpretation Options
Auto Quantize
•If the project contains no triplets or only triplets, deactivate this option.
•If the project contains mixed triplets and straight notes, activate this option (see 
below).
Deviation and Adapt
•When Deviation is activated, triplets/straight notes are detected even if they are 
not exactly “on the beat”. However, if you know your triplets/straight notes are 
perfectly recorded (quantized or entered by hand), deactivate this...

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Interpretation Options
Syncopation
Activate Syncopation when the program adds more ties to notes crossing beats and 
bar lines than you prefer. The following options are available:
For a “modern” notation of syncopated notes, activate Syncopation.
Without and with Syncopation
Again, without and with Syncopation
Note that you can insert “exceptions” to the Syncopation setting in the Score Settings 
dialog on the Staff page, by using the Display...

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Staff settingsDisplay Transpose
No Overlap
When notes starting at the same position have different lengths, the program tends to 
add more ties than you may want. This can be avoided by using No Overlap.
This recording in the Key Editor…
…is displayed like this when No Overlap is deactivated…
…and like this when No Overlap is activated.
You can insert “exceptions” to the No Overlap setting on the Staff page of the Score 
Settings dialog, by using the Display Quantize tool.
Shuffle
In jazz it is very...

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Staff settingsThe Options tab
•You can disable Display Transpose by deactivating the “Display Transpose” 
button on the toolbar of the Score Editor.
For more information, see “Transposing instruments” on page 744.
The Options tab
Clicking the Options tab in the dialog brings up another page with additional settings. 
Below follows a brief description of these, with references to more detailed 
explanations.
Switches
This section allows you to make beam settings.
OptionDescription
Flat BeamsActivate...

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Staff settingsThe Polyphonic tab
System Sizes
This section allows you to set the number of system lines and to control spacing 
between the lines:
Score Drum Map
These settings are described in the chapter “Scoring for drums” on page 883.
Fixed Stems
Activate this if you want all note stems to end at the same vertical position. This 
feature is perhaps most often used when scoring for drums (see 
“Setting up a staff for 
drum scoring” on page 886).
A drum pattern with Fixed Stem length activated
The...

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Polyphonic voicing
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
- How to decide when to use polyphonic voicing.
- How to set up voices.
- How to automatically convert your score to polyphonic voicing.
- How to enter and move notes into voices.
Background: Polyphonic voicing
Polyphonic voicing allows you to resolve a number of situations impossible to score 
properly otherwise:
•Notes starting at the same position, but with different lengths. Without polyphonic 
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Polyphonic voicingBackground: Polyphonic voicing
How voices are created
Cubase allows for up to eight voices. The first thing you do is to set them up. This 
includes “telling” the program which voices belong to the upper clef and which belong 
to the lower, how you want rests displayed for each voice, etc.
The second thing you do is to move or enter notes into the voices. If you have a 
recording done already, the program can do much of this work for you, automatically. 
You might then want to...