Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual

Polyphonic voicing
Moving notes between voices
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4. Click OK.
The notes are distributed to different voices.
RELATED LINKS
The Explode function on page 1124
Alternative ways of handling voices
Below we suggest further “advanced” ways of putting notes into voices. This is 
based on the relation between voices and MIDI channels, so please make sure that 
you understand how this connection works.
•Cubase Pro only: You can use the Logical Editor to put notes into voices, 
based on other more complex...

Polyphonic voicing
Handling rests
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Handling rests
With polyphonic voices, you often get more rest symbols than desired.
• If a voice does not need any rests at all, you can deactivate rests separately 
for this voice on the Polyphonic tab of the Staff page in the Score Settings 
dialog.
• If you only need rests from one voice on a staff, activate Rests–Center for that 
voice (this is done in the same dialog). If two or more voices have rests, 
deactivate Rests–Center. The program then automatically...

Polyphonic voicing
Creating crossed voicings
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• Insert Display Quantize “exceptions” anywhere in the score, independently for 
each voice.
PROCEDURE
1. Make sure that the “Display Quantize Tool affects all Voices” option is 
deactivated.
2. Select the voice for which you want to insert a Display Quantize event.
This is done by clicking at the corresponding voice button on the extended toolbar as 
described above, or by selecting a note that belongs to this voice.
3. Select the Display Quantize tool....

Polyphonic voicing
Creating crossed voicings
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4. Click Apply.
The staff is in Polyphonic staff mode, but all notes are still in the same voice.
5. Open the Scores menu and select “Explode” from the Functions submenu.
6. In the dialog that appears, select the “To Polyphonic Voices” option and 
activate “Lines To Tracks”.
Leave the other options off.
7. Click OK.
The notes have now been split in two “lines”, each in a separate voice. However, from 
the middle of the bar, notes that are in voice 1...

Polyphonic voicing
Automatic polyphonic voicing – Merge All Staves
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After making graphical adjustments.
RELATED LINKS
Graphic moving of notes on page 1198
Manual adjustment of beams on page 1195
Automatic polyphonic voicing – Merge All Staves
If you have already created some tracks which look and play back as they should, 
and you want to combine these into one track with polyphonic voices, there is a 
special function on the Scores menu for this:
PROCEDURE
1. Open the tracks (up to four) in the...

Polyphonic voicing
Converting voices to tracks – Extract Voices
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Converting voices to tracks – Extract Voices
This function does the opposite of “Merge All Staves” – it extracts polyphonic 
voices from an existing track and creates new tracks, one for each voice.
PROCEDURE
1. Open a track containing 2 to 8 polyphonic voices in the Score Editor.
2. Open the Scores menu and select “Extract Voices” from the Functions 
submenu.
A number of new tracks is created and added to the display of the Score...

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Additional note and rest 
formatting
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
• How to control stem direction.
• How to control beaming, and create cross-staff beaming.
• How to make detailed adjustments to note appearance.
• How to perform “graphic moving” of notes.
• How to create grace notes.
• How to create tuplets.
Background: Note stems
The direction of stems is governed by five things:
• How notes are grouped under beams.
• Any manual manipulation of beams.
• The Flip Stems...

Additional note and rest formatting
Setting stem direction
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If you have activated the “Fixed Stems” option on the Staff page of the Score 
Settings dialog (Options tab), a lot of the automatic stem length settings are 
ignored. However, you can still edit the stem length and direction of individual notes.
RELATED LINKS
Fixed Stems on page 1162
Setting stem direction
In polyphonic voices
In the Score Settings dialog, on the Staff page (Polyphonic tab), the stem...

Additional note and rest formatting
Setting stem direction
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Flipping the stems of notes grouped under a beam
PROCEDURE
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.
IMPORTANT
This does not work if you have adjusted the slanting of the beam by dragging. If you 
have, you must first reset the beam.
RELATED LINKS
Stem length on page 1180
Independent stem...

Additional note and rest formatting
Stem length
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• Setting this pop-up menu to Up or Down is the same as using Flip Stems.
• Setting this pop-up menu to Auto makes the program set the stem direction 
automatically.
RELATED LINKS
Using Flip Stems on page 1178
Stem length
Adjusting stem length (Page Mode)
PROCEDURE
1. Click on the end of the stem so that a handle appears.
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...