Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual

Additional note and rest formatting
Grace notes
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Before and after converting to grace notes. Note that after the conversion, the grace 
notes nolonger “interfere” with the interpretation of the other notes.
NOTE
Grace notes are always positioned just before the next note on the staff. If there is 
no note after a grace note on the staff, the grace notes are hidden!
Creating grace notes manually
PROCEDURE
1. Locate the note for which you want a grace note.
2. Insert one or more new notes just before...

Additional note and rest formatting
Tuplets
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Editing a grace note
PROCEDURE
1. Select one or several grace notes and open the Set Note Info dialog.
2. Select a note value for the stem.
3. Activate Crossed, if needed.
When this is activated, the stem is crossed by a slanted line, to further indicate that 
the note is a grace note.
4. Click Apply.
The settings are applied to the selected notes.
5. Close the dialog.
Converting grace notes to normal notes
PROCEDURE
1. Select the notes that you want to...

Additional note and rest formatting
Tuplets
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• As display quantize. This is the method you use when the tuplet is recorded 
and plays back as you want it, but is not displayed correctly.
Actually, in the first case, you make permanent alterations and set display quantize 
settings, all in one go. In the second case you only make display quantize settings.
With permanent change to MIDI data
PROCEDURE
1. Insert as many notes as the tuplet consists of.
This would typically be 5, 7 or 9. If the tuplet...

Additional note and rest formatting
Tuplets
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RELATED LINKS
Tuplet display options on page 1204
Without permanent change to MIDI data
PROCEDURE
1. Select the notes in the tuplet group.
In this case, the notes play back correctly but are not displayed as a tuplet (yet).
2. Select “Build N-Tuplet…” from the Scores menu to bring up the Tuplets 
dialog.
3. Make settings in the dialog, as described above.
4. Click Quantize.
Now the tuplet is displayed correctly. You can make additional settings for how the...

Additional note and rest formatting
Tuplets
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Tuplet Brackets
There are three possible settings for this option:
• None: Tuplets never have brackets.
•Always: Tuplets always have brackets.
• …by the head: Brackets are shown only when the tuplets are displayed 
on the “head side”.
Display Tuplet values by the Beams
When this is activated, tuplets are displayed on the “beam side” of the notes 
instead of on the note head side.
Suppress Recurring Tuplets
When this is activated, and you have several...

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Working with symbols
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
• What the different types of symbols are.
• How to insert and edit symbols.
• Details about special symbols.
Background: The different layers
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the project layer. When you add symbols, these are inserted into one of these layers, 
depending on the type of symbol. The symbols...

Working with symbols
Background: The different layers
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• Note-dependent symbols. Only a few symbols belong to this category, for 
example the arpeggio lines. In one way, these behave just like grace notes. 
They always precede a note or chord. If there is no note “after them” on a staff, 
they disappear.
• All other note layer symbols (tempo, dynamics, chords, etc.). Their position is 
related to the bar. (Whichever way you edit the notes, these symbols remain 
unaffected.) However, their positions...

Working with symbols
The Symbols Inspector
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Why three layers?
There are several reasons for this division into layers:
• Many of the symbols that are in the layout layer can be stretched to span over 
several staves, or for other reasons make more sense to think of as belonging 
to a certain group of tracks.
• The layout layer is only one part of the bigger concept of layouts. Layouts 
allow you to easily extract parts from a full score and perform automatic 
formatting.
• Typically, you want to...

Working with symbols
The Symbols Inspector
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The dialog is divided into two columns. The left column displays the currently visible 
tabs in the Inspector, and the right column displays the currently hidden tabs.
• You can change the current show/hide status by selecting items in one 
column and using the arrow buttons in the middle of the dialog to move them 
to the other column. The changes are reflected directly in the editor.
• You can change the order of the (visible) tabs in the Symbols...

Working with symbols
The Symbols Inspector
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Working with symbol palettes
You can open any of the Symbols Inspector sections as separate symbol palettes.
Opening tabs as palettes
PROCEDURE
1. In the Symbols Inspector, open the desired symbols tab.
2. Right-click on any of the symbols of the tab.
Note that you have to right-click on a symbol. Right-clicking on a tab header opens a 
different context menu instead.
3. Select “Open As Palette” from the context menu.
The selected tab is shown as palette....