Steinberg Cubase 7 User Manual

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Designing your score: additional techniquesReset Layout
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 
rectangle to the left of the active staff).
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...

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Designing your score: additional techniquesBreaking bar lines
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
You can break the bar lines in one grand staff or in several grand staves and re-
connect them.
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...

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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...

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Scoring for drumsSetting up the drum map
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
To set up the drum map, proceed as follows:
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...

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Scoring for drumsSetting up the drum map
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...

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Scoring for drumsSetting up a staff for drum scoring
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 corresponding option (see “Using 
“Single Line Drum Staff”” on page 886).
4.If you want flat beams, activate the corresponding option (see “Handling beaming” 
on page 797).
5.If you want all stems to end at the same position,...

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Creating tablature
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
- How to create tablature, automatically and manually.
- How to control the appearance of the tablature notes.
- How to edit tablature.
Cubase is able to produce score in tablature format. This can be done automatically, 
by “converting” recorded MIDI information. You can also create a tablature staff from 
scratch and enter the notes “by hand”.
Creating tablature automatically
This assumes you have a regular score on screen...

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Creating tablatureCreating tablature manually
5.If you want to use a capodaster, e.g. on the forth fret, enter the corresponding 
value in the Capo field.
The tablature changes accordingly.
6.Make the desired settings for “No Stems/Rests” and “MIDI Channel 1–6”.
No Stems/Rests gives you a score where the notes have no stems and where all 
the rests are hidden. The “MIDI Channel 1–6” feature is described below.
7.Click Apply.
The tablature appears. You get as many note lines as you have activated...

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Creating tablatureTablature number appearance
3.Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and select the Options tab.
4.Set the “System Lines” to as many strings as the instrument you are scoring for 
has.
5.Raise the Add Space value to 1 or 2.
You need a little extra space between note lines to make room for the numbered 
note heads.
Suggested system line settings for guitar tablature
6.On the Tablature tab, activate “Tablature Mode”.
7.Set up whatever other parameters you need in the dialog,...

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Creating tablatureEditing
Editing
Tablature can be edited like any other score. You can move notes, handle beaming, 
stem direction, etc.
Moving notes to another string
If you want for example a “C” to appear as an “8” on the low E-string rather than a “3” 
on the A-string on a guitar, proceed as follows:
1.Select one note or a number of notes that you want to move to a new string.
2.Right-click on one of the selected notes and, from the “Move to String” submenu, 
select the desired string.
The Fret...