Steinberg Cubase 7 User Manual

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Designing your score: additional techniquesEditing existing bar lines
3.Click OK.
If you need more splits, double-click on any multi-rest symbol and proceed as 
above.
Multi-rest appearance
The Project page in the Score Settings dialog contains several subpages, on which 
you can make settings for multi-rests:
•The subpage “Notation Style” contains the following settings concerning multi-
rests:
•On the Spacings subpage of the dialog, you can adjust the height and width of 
multi-rest symbols.
•On...

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Designing your score: additional techniquesCreating upbeats
3.Click on the desired bar line type.
The dialog closes and the bar line type is changed.
4.If you do not want to display bar lines at the beginning of the parts, open the Score 
Settings dialog on the Project–Notation Style subpage (Bar Lines category) and 
activate the “Hide First Bar line in Parts” option.
ÖThe bar line types are part of the Project layer – any changes you make are reflected 
in all layouts.
Creating upbeats
The following...

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Designing your score: additional techniquesSetting the number of bars across the page
By hiding rests
With this method, the first bar actually gets the same time signature as the following 
bars – it only looks like an upbeat bar:
1.Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar.
The first bar before making any adjustments
2.Hide the rests that precede the notes.
3.Drag the bar line between measure one and two to adjust the width of the bar.
After hiding the rest and dragging the bar line
4.If you...

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Designing your score: additional techniquesMoving bar lines
2.Open the Scores menu and select “Number Of Bars” from the Advanced Layout 
submenu.
The Number of Bars dialog opens.
3.Set the desired number of bars across the page.
•To change the number of bars for the active staff only, click “This Staff”.
•To change the number of bars for the active staff and all following staves, click “All 
Staves”.
In other words, to set all systems on all pages to the same number of bars, make 
the very first...

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Designing your score: additional techniquesMoving bar lines
Moving bar lines on all staves
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] when dragging a bar line, all bar lines below the one 
you drag are moved accordingly.
Moving a single bar line separately
If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging a bar line, the widths of the 
surrounding bars are not affected.
Making an indent on one line
•To create an indent, simply drag the first or last bar line on a staff.
The sizes of all measures are adjusted...

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Designing your score: additional techniquesDragging staves
Dragging staves
For the following operations, you can use the Object Selection tool or the Layout tool.
ÖDragging staves can only be done in Page Mode.
Adding space between two grand staves
1.Locate the first staff in the lower of the two systems that you want to spread apart.
2.Click just to the left of the first bar line and keep the mouse button pressed. 
The entire staff is selected.
3.Drag downwards until you have reached the desired...

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Designing your score: additional techniquesDragging staves
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...

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Designing your score: additional techniquesAdding brackets and braces
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...

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Designing your score: additional techniquesAuto Layout
Auto Layout
This item on the Scores menu brings up a dialog with several 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 properties 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.
Move Bars
This option...

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Designing your score: additional techniquesAuto Layout
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...