Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual

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Accidentals and enharmonic shift
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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.
Accidentals and enharmonic shift
Making global settings
In the Score Settings dialog, on the Project page...

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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.
IMPORTANT
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).
IMPORTANT
If you activate “Use Chord Track for A...

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Use this button when you want to enclose the accidental in parentheses. To 
remove these, select “off”.
Changing the note head shape
PROCEDURE
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...

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Other note details
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The Set Note Info dialog contains the following settings:
Note Head
Used for selecting custom note head shapes.
Tablature on/off and number
Used for creating or editing tablature. This feature can be used for individual 
notes or together with the automatic tablature function.
Bows
Used for adding bow up/bow down articulation. When selecting “Off”, bow 
symbols are not displayed for the selected notes.
Bow up and down
Length
This allows you to...

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Other note details
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No Flag/Beam
Activate this to hide the flags or beams of the selected notes.
Bracket Head
When 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.
Hide Note
Activating this checkbox hides the selected notes.
Stem
Determines the stem direction.
Tie
Determines the direction...

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Coloring notes
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Grace notes on page 1200
Cue notes on page 1199
The Cut Notes tool on page 1197
Coloring notes
You can assign colors to notes using the Event Colors pop-up menu on the toolbar.
PROCEDURE
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...

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Coloring notes
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Scores Colors for Additional Meanings
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.
PROCEDURE
1. Open the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for...

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Copying settings between notes
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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:
PROCEDURE
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.
2. In the score, select the note and select “Copy” from...

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Handling beaming
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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:
PROCEDURE
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...

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Handling beaming
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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,...