Steinberg Cubase 7 User Manual

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Working with symbolsAdding symbols to the score
Adding guitar chord symbols
A fretboard symbol of a guitar chord can be inserted anywhere in the score. 
Guitar symbols are found on the “Guitar Symbols” tab and the Other tab in the 
Symbols Inspector.
•The Guitar Symbols tab contains all Guitar symbols of the current guitar library, 
see 
“Using the guitar library” on page 822. If the symbol that you want to insert is 
among these, select it and insert it as you would any other symbol, see above.
To...

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Working with symbolsAdding symbols to the score
You can edit the symbol at any time by double-clicking it, changing the settings in the 
dialog and clicking Apply. Note that you can also access the symbols that you defined 
in the guitar library by right-clicking a guitar symbol – see below.
ÖIf you select “Make Chord Symbol” from the context menu, the corresponding chord 
symbol is displayed above the guitar symbol. This function is very useful when writing 
lead sheets, for example.
Using the...

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Working with symbolsAdding symbols to the score
There are also two additional checkboxes in the Guitar Library dialog:
Inserting symbols from the library
Apart from the “Use for Make Chord Symbols” option above, there are two ways to 
insert symbols from the guitar library into the score:
•Use the Functions pop-up menu on the Project–Guitar Library subpage in the 
Score Settings dialog, when creating or editing guitar symbols.
•Right-click on a guitar symbol in the score and select a chord symbol...

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Working with symbolsAdding symbols to the score
You can modify the settings you made on import by right-clicking the image and 
selecting “Properties” on the context menu, to open the Image Properties dialog.
Using layout symbols
Layout symbols and texts are inserted on the layout layer. When you are editing a 
layout containing several tracks, you can have inserted layout symbols and texts 
automatically copied to any combination of tracks in the layout. You decide which 
staves should display...

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Working with symbolsSelecting symbols
Selecting symbols
Almost all symbols can be selected by clicking on them. For symbols that have a 
length or size, one or more handles appear.
A selected crescendo
An exception to this are the slurs and ties which can be selected by clicking on the 
end points or by drawing a selection rectangle.
Using the lock layers
Sometimes it can be very hard to click on a symbol or other object in the score without 
accidentally selecting other symbols nearby. To remedy...

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Working with symbolsMoving and duplicating symbols
Locking a layer
To “lock” a layer, click on its lock layer button.
In this figure, layer 2 is locked. Event types assigned to layer 2 cannot be selected, moved, or 
deleted.
Visual indication of the layers
Objects belonging to locked note layers are “grayed out” in the score. This makes it 
very easy to find out which object belongs to which layer – perhaps especially useful 
for the layout and project layers. For example, to quickly spot all objects...

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Working with symbolsMoving and duplicating symbols
The rulers 
Unlike other editors, the Score Editor does not have a meter/time position-based 
ruler. Instead, its rulers are “graphical”, i.e. they indicate the actual x-y position of 
objects (with “zero” at the upper left corner).
•The current pointer position is indicated by thin lines in the rulers.
•To hide the rulers, right-click on a ruler and select “Off”.
This pop-up menu can also be found above the scrollbar at the far right.
•To display...

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Working with symbolsMoving and duplicating symbols
Dragging symbols across staves
If you drag a symbol across the staves, you can see how the “active staff” indicator to 
the left follows the mouse pointer. Use this as an indication to make sure that symbols 
end up in the correct staff.
•If you are editing several tracks at the same time, and want to make sure that a 
symbol is not accidentally moved to another track when you drag it vertically, 
activate the Lock “L” button on the extended...

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Working with symbolsMoving and duplicating symbols
3.Double-click on the handle of the bar from which you want to copy or move 
symbols.
The Bar Copy dialog appears.
4.Make sure that only the symbol types that you want to move/copy are checked.
5.If you have several subsequent bars to which you want to copy symbols, set the 
“Repeats” value to this number of bars.
If you only want to copy symbols from one bar to another, make sure that 
“Repeats” is set to 1. This option is only available for...

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Working with symbolsChanging length, size, and shape
•If you do not hold down [Alt]/[Option] when dragging the bar handle, the symbols 
(and other event types specified in the dialog) are removed from the “source” bar.
Moving note symbols
Note symbols, slurs and ties all have “default positions”. This determines the vertical 
distance between the note head(s) and the symbol. 
•You can manually adjust the vertical positions of individual symbols, but if you 
move or transpose their notes, the symbols...