Steinberg Cubase 7 User Manual

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Additional note and rest formattingSetting stem direction
Using Flip Stems
Flipping the stem of one or several notes
1.Select the notes.
2.Click the Flip icon on the extended toolbar.
All the stems in the selection are now flipped. Those that pointed up now point 
down and vice versa.
•You can also assign a key command for this.
In the Key Commands dialog on the File menu, the command is called “Flip” and is 
found in the Score Functions category.
•You can also right-click a note or a selection of notes and select the Flip option 
from the context menu.
Flipping the stems of notes grouped under a beam
1.Select any note in the group.
2.Invoke Flip as described above.
The entire group is now flipped. 
Before and after the flip. No matter which note you select, the entire group is flipped.
Independent stem direction under a beam
If you need stems attached to the same beam to go in different directions, this is 
achieved by dragging the beam’s start and end points, as described in the section 
“Manual adjustment of beams” on page 802. This feature is available in Page Mode 
only.
Independent stem direction under a beam
The Flip icon
!This does not work if you have adjusted the slanting of the beam by dragging. If you 
have, you must first reset the beam as described in the section “Stem length” on page 
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Additional note and rest formattingStem length
Stem direction in the Set Note Info dialog
The Set Note Info dialog can be opened by double-clicking on a note head. In its 
lower left corner you can find a pop-up menu for setting stem direction.
- Setting this pop-up menu to Up or Down is the same as using Flip Stems, see 
“Using Flip Stems” on page 791. 
- Setting this pop-up menu to Auto makes the program set the stem direction 
automatically. 
Stem length
Adjusting stem length (Page Mode)
1.Click on the end of the stem so that a handle appears.
The stem handle is selected.
2.If you want to change the lengths of several stems at the same time, hold down 
[Shift] and select these stems as well.
3.Drag the stem handle (on one of the selected stems) up or down.
All selected stems are lengthened or shortened by the same amount.
Resetting stem length and beam slants
1.Make sure that the filter bar is visible.
If the filter bar is not visible, click the “Set up Window Layout” button on the 
toolbar and select the Filters option.
2.Make sure that the “Stems/Beams” checkbox is activated on the filter bar.
Now, below the notes where stems have been changed or beam slant adjusted 
manually, the word “Stem” appears.
3.Click on the “Stem” text to select it.
4.Press [Backspace] or [Delete] to remove it.
Before and after deleting the “Stem” item. 
						

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Additional note and rest formattingAccidentals and enharmonic shift
Accidentals and enharmonic shift
Making global settings
In the Score Settings dialog, on the Project page (Accidentals subpage), you can find 
a number of options for how accidentals are displayed in the score. Once set, these 
are valid for all tracks in the project. Proceed as follows:
1.Open the Score Settings dialog on the Project page and select the Accidentals 
subpage from the Pages list.
You have the following options:
•Activate the “Courtesy Acc Distance” option and enter a value in the Bars field.
This determines after how many measures courtesy accidentals are shown. If you 
set this to “0”, notes outside the scale get accidentals and no courtesy accidentals 
are shown.
•Activate one of the following options:
2.In the Outside the Scale area, you can decide how five of the most common 
intervals outside the scale are displayed, as sharps or as flats.
Enharmonic shift
If one or several notes are not displayed with the accidentals that you want, you can 
perform an Enharmonic Shift operation on them.
1.Select the notes to be shifted.
2.Click the desired option on the extended toolbar.
OptionDescription
ForceNotes outside the scale get accidentals, and accidentals are 
repeated even within the same bar.
Force allEvery single note in the score gets an accidental.
!If you activate the “Accidentals for Each Note” option in the Score Settings dialog, on 
the Project–Notation Style subpage (in the “H.W. Henze Style” category), all notes 
are displayed with accidentals (even tied notes).
!If you activate “Use Chord Track for Accidentals”, the chord track is used to determine 
the accidentals. For further information on the chord track, see 
“Working with the 
Chord Functions” on page 542.
OptionDescription
Use these buttons when you want regular Enharmonic Shifting (select one 
option).
Use this button when you want to deactivate Enharmonic Shifting for the 
notes. 
						

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Additional note and rest formattingChanging the note head shape
3.If you want the enharmonic shift to be repeated in the whole bar, activate the 
“Enharmonic shift for entire bar” option in the Score Settings dialog (Project–
Accidentals subpage).
Changing the note head shape
1.Select the notes for which you want to change the note head shape.
Make sure not to select the stems, only the note heads.
2.Open the Set Note Info dialog.
To do so, double-click one of the notes, click the “i” button on the extended 
toolbar, or right-click on a note head and select “Properties” from the context 
menu.
3.Open the “Note Head” pop-up menu in the top left corner of the dialog.
The pop-up menu contains all the available head shapes and an “Auto” option, 
which selects the normal default shape for the note.
4.Select one of the note heads.
5.Click Apply.
The settings are applied to the selected notes.
6.If you like, select other notes and make settings for them.
7.When you are done, close the dialog.
Use this button when you want to hide the accidental completely.
Use this button when you want to create a “help accidental” for the 
selected notes only. 
Use this button when you want to enclose the accidental in parentheses. 
To remove these, select “off”.
Option Description 
						

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Additional note and rest formattingOther note details
Other note details
Each note has a number of settings in the Set Note Info dialog.
The Set Note Info dialog contains the following settings:
OptionDescription
Note HeadUsed for selecting custom note head shapes (see “Changing the 
note head shape” on page 794).
Tablature  
on/off and number
Used for creating or editing tablature (see “Creating tablature” on 
page 887). This feature can be used for individual notes or together 
with the automatic tablature function.
BowsUsed for adding bow up/bow down articulation. When selecting 
“Off”, bow symbols are not displayed for the selected notes.
Bow up and down
LengthThis allows you to change the displayed length of notes, without 
affecting playback. Note that the display quantize settings still apply 
(see 
“Display Quantize values” on page 773). To reset this value to 
“Auto” (so that notes are displayed according to their actual length), 
scroll the value down to zero.
Accidental 
DistanceUse this to specify how far from the note, horizontally, you want the 
accidental. The higher the number the greater the distance.
No Ledger LinesTurns off ledger lines for notes with high or low pitches.
With and without ledger lines
No StemHides the note stem completely.
No DotHides the dot from a dotted note.
No Flag/BeamActivate this to hide the flags or beams of the selected notes.
Bracket HeadWhen this is activated, notes are displayed with brackets:
Bracket Head on and off
X Stem (Spoken)When this option is activated for a note, it is displayed with an x 
across its stem. This is normally used to indicate spoken words. 
						

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Additional note and rest formattingColoring notes
Coloring notes
You can assign colors to notes using the Event Colors pop-up menu on the toolbar. 
Proceed as follows:
1.Simply select the notes for which you want to use colors, open the Event Colors 
pop-up menu on the toolbar and pick a color.
Only the note heads are colored. Note that the color is only visible once the notes 
have been deselected.
2.On the far right in the Score Editor toolbar you can find the Hide Colors button.
If you assigned colors to some or all of the notes in your score, this button allows 
you to switch between display of colored or uncolored notes. This may help you to 
find selected notes among other colored notes.
If the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for Additional Meanings page) you can 
specify different colors for elements in the score in order to indicate that they are 
“special” in any way. You can for example choose a color for a “Moved Graphic” or a 
“Moved Slur”. These objects are colored accordingly when they are moved from their 
default positions (see 
“Moving note symbols” on page 830).
1.Open the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for Additional Meanings).
Hide NoteActivating this checkbox hides the selected notes.
StemDetermines the stem direction, see “Using Flip Stems” on page 791.
TieDetermines the direction of ties. When this is set to “Auto”, the 
program chooses a tie direction depending on the stem direction of 
the tied notes.
TypeDetermines the note type. There are four options:
– Normal. This is how notes usually are displayed.
– Grace. When this is selected, notes are displayed as grace notes. 
This is described in detail on 
“Grace notes” on page 807.
– Cue. When this is selected, notes are displayed as cue notes 
(smaller notes, often used as “guide notes” or optional lines). See 
“Cue notes” on page 806 for details.
– Graphic. These are special notes, useful for example for guitar 
notation (pull-offs) and trills (as “help notes”, indicating which notes 
to trill between). In both these cases the “No Stems” option could be 
useful. 
 
Graphic notes are not included in the “automated cutting” (see “The 
Cut Notes tool” on page 804). They are positioned after the notes 
they “belong to” (as opposed to grace notes).
CrossedActivate this option, when you want the stem to be crossed by a 
slanted line (to indicate that the note is a grace note).
Grace note optionsThese options are available when Grace is selected on the Type pop-
up menu, see 
“Grace notes” on page 807.
Option Description 
						

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Additional note and rest formattingCopying settings between notes
2.Click in the Active column to activate this function for the corresponding element.
3.Click in the Color field to the right to select a color.
When color-printing a score, you get the colors you selected for the notes. When you 
are using a black-and-white printer, the notes appear in black (notes that have not 
been assigned a color) and different shades of gray (depending on how bright/dark a 
color was used for the note).
Copying settings between notes
If you have made various settings in the Set Note Info dialog for a note, and want to 
use these settings for other notes as well, there is an easy way to do this:
1.Set up the first note as desired.
This includes the settings in the Set Note Info dialog, but also any note-related 
symbols (such as accents, staccato, articulation, etc. – see 
“Adding note symbols” 
on page 816).
2.In the score, select the note and select “Copy” from the Edit menu.
3.Select the notes to which you want to copy the attributes.
4.Right-click the notes to which you want to copy the attributes, and select “Paste 
Attributes” from the context menu.
The selected notes now get the attributes of the first, copied note, but their pitches 
and note values remain unchanged.
Handling beaming
Turning beaming on/off
Beaming is enabled/disabled independently for each staff.
1.On the Staff page in the Score Settings dialog, click the Options tab.
2.To turn off beaming, activate No Beams and click Apply.
Even if beaming is deactivated for the staff, you can put some notes under beams, as 
described below.
Grouping
When beaming is on, the program automatically groups notes under beams. However, 
there are a number of ways to determine how notes are grouped.
Using the Edit Time Signature dialog
The time signature for the score naturally affects grouping. But you can control this 
yourself by creating a composite time signature used only for grouping:
1.Open the Edit Time Signature dialog by double-clicking the time signature symbol 
for the staff.
2.Set up the numerator with the grouping you desire.
If you for example want eighth notes in two groups of three and one group of two, 
enter 3+3+2.
3.Set the denominator, if necessary. 
						

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Additional note and rest formattingHandling beaming
4.Activate “For Grouping Only”.
5.Click OK.
Regular grouping of a number of eighth notes or smaller (“Beam”)
If the grouping the program assigns is not the one you want, you can put any selection 
of eighth notes or smaller under a beam:
1.Select at least two notes, where you want the beam to begin and end.
All notes between these two notes are grouped under a beam.
2.Click the Group Notes icon on the extended toolbar or right-click on one of the 
notes to be grouped and select “Beam” from the “Group/Ungroup” submenu of 
the context menu.
The Group Notes icon
Before and after grouping
•Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the Grouping dialog, allowing you to 
adjust the “note value” for the symbols.
Grouping quarter notes or larger under a beam (“Brillenbass”)
It is also possible to use the grouping feature for notes that are not displayed with 
beams (quarter notes, half notes, etc.). The result are so called “Brillenbass” symbols, 
commonly used for indicating repeated accompaniment patterns, etc.
•Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the Grouping dialog, allowing you to 
adjust the “note value” for the symbols.
!Note that the “For Grouping Only” setting only affects the way the numerator is 
divided. Any changes you make to the “sum” of the numerator number or the 
denominator result in a change of actual time signature in the project. If you need a 
grouping which cannot be entered in the current time signature, you have to group 
notes manually, see below. 
						

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Additional note and rest formattingHandling beaming
Grouping notes using Repeats
To show Repeats for the grouped notes, proceed as follows:
1.Make sure that the filter bar is visible in the Score Editor.
If the filter bar is not visible, click the “Set up Window Layouts” button on the 
toolbar and select the Filters option.
2.Activate the “Grouping” checkbox in the filter bar.
Now, you see the text “Grouping” below all groups you have created.
3.Select the desired notes.
4.Right-click on one of the notes and from the Group/Ungroup submenu, select 
“Repeat…”.
5.In the dialog that appears, use the radio buttons to select the desired note value 
for the repeats.
In this example, the “Repeat” feature is used to display two pairs of sixteenth notes as two 
eighth notes with “repeat bars”. Note that the second and fourth sixteenth note have only 
been hidden – playback is not affected!
6.Click OK to close the dialog.
•Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the Grouping dialog, allowing you to 
adjust the “note value” for the symbols.
Creating an accelerando/ritardando
To create an accelerando/ritardando, proceed as follows:
1.Select the notes as described above and select “Accelerando” from the 
Group/Ungroup submenu.
A dialog appears.
2.Use the radio buttons to select the desired combination (i.e. define whether you 
want an accelerando or a ritardando and specify the desired note values) and click 
OK to close the dialog.
Example for accelerando (left) and ritardando (right)
•Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the Grouping dialog, allowing you to 
select another combination. 
						

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Additional note and rest formattingHandling beaming
The Grouping dialog
As described above, the Grouping dialog can also be opened by double-clicking an 
existing grouping text in the score.
•Which Grouping dialog appears depends on the grouping option you used for the 
notes (Beam, Repeats or Accelerando, see above).
Removing groups
If you have created a group as described above and want to remove it, proceed as 
follows:
1.Make sure that the “Grouping” checkbox is activated in the display filter bar.
2.Select a group by clicking on its “Grouping” text.
3.Press [Backspace] or [Delete].
The grouping is removed.
•If you need to remove all groups from the score, hold down [Shift] and double-click 
on the first “Grouping” text. 
This selects all “Grouping” symbols, so you can delete them all at once by 
pressing [Backspace] or [Delete].
Removing a note from a group
There is no dedicated “ungroup” command, simply because it is not needed. A group 
can consist of one note if you wish. In other words… 
- To remove one note at the end of a group, select it and proceed with grouping as 
above.
- If you select notes in the middle of a beam and then group, three groups are 
created.
Before and after grouping
Automatic grouping
The program can also go through the selected notes and automatically create 
grouping for you, where it is deemed suitable. Proceed as follows:
1.Select the notes that you want checked for auto-grouping.
Typically, you would select all notes on the track by using the Select All command 
on the Edit menu.
2.Right-click on one of the notes and select “Auto Group Notes” from the context 
menu.
In 4/4 you get for example two groups of eighth notes per bar, in 3/4 you get one 
group per bar, etc.
Before and after using auto grouping in 4/4