Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual

Working with symbols
Adding symbols to the score
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RELATED LINKS
Using the guitar library on page 1221
Using the guitar library
The above method is fine if you only want to add a few chord symbols to your score. 
If you need a lot of chord symbols, or if you are using chord symbols in a lot of 
different scores, you can gather all your chord symbols in a “guitar library” instead. 
This way you do not have to recreate the same chord symbol over and over again.
Defining chord symbols
PROCEDURE
1. In the...

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• To load a guitar library file, select “Load Current Pane…” from the Functions 
pop-up menu.
In the file dialog that appears, locate and open the desired guitar library file.
IMPORTANT
Loading a guitar library file replaces the current library!
There are also two additional checkboxes in the Guitar Library dialog:
RELATED LINKS
Using Make Chord Symbols on page 1248
Inserting symbols from the library
Apart from the “Use for Make Chord Symbols” option...

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2. Click the Image File button to select the Draw tool. Click in the score at the 
position where you want to insert the file.
A file dialog opens.
3. Locate and select the image file you want to insert.
The lower section of the Import dialog contains the following settings:
• To copy the referenced file into the Project folder, activate the “Copy to Project 
folder” option.
This is recommended as it makes it easier to manage all files used in a...

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Selecting symbols
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• Any editing you perform to layout symbols and texts is automatically 
duplicated in the other tracks.
• The display of layout symbols and texts for different tracks can be deactivated 
at any time.
• Layout symbols and texts can be copied between layouts, by using the Get 
Form function on the Functions pop-up menu on the Layout page of the Score 
Settings dialog.
One example of how to use layout symbols and texts:
Let’s say you are editing a full orchestra...

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Selecting symbols
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A selected crescendo
An exception to this are the slurs and ties which can be selected by clicking on the 
end points or by drawing a selection rectangle.
Using the lock layers
Sometimes it can be very hard to click on a symbol or other object in the score 
without accidentally selecting other symbols nearby. To remedy this, you can assign 
different types of objects to different “lock layers” (up to three) and instruct Cubase 
to “lock” one or two of these...

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Locking a layer
To “lock” a layer, click on its lock layer button.
In this figure, layer 2 is locked. Event types assigned to layer 2 cannot be selected, moved, 
or deleted.
Visual indication of the layers
Objects belonging to locked note layers are “grayed out” in the score. This makes 
it very easy to find out which object belongs to which layer – perhaps especially 
useful for the layout and project layers. For example, to quickly spot all...

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• Slurs and ties are an exception, as they can only be moved by first dragging 
one handle and then the other. However, if you use the Layout tool to move 
the notes they belong to, or if you change the measure width, they are 
adjusted automatically.
• Duplicating is done by moving with [Alt]/[Option] pressed, as always in 
Cubase. Slurs, ties, and bar lines cannot be duplicated with this method.
There are two features to help you position symbols...

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The window contains the following settings and values:
Measure in
Click this label to change units for the Position Info window. You can toggle 
between Inch, cm, and pt. This choice also affects the units used in the rulers.
Abs. Pos./Rel. Pos
Click this label to select whether X-Y position values are “absolute” (referring 
to the upper left corner of the current page) or “relative” (referring to the upper 
left corner of the active staff).
X, Y...

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When this is activated, you cannot move symbols across staves by dragging.
Moving by using the computer keyboard
In the Key Commands dialog, you can assign key commands for moving symbols, 
notes, or rests graphically. The commands are found in the “Nudge” category and 
are called “Graphical Left”, “Graphical Right”, “Graphical Top”, and “Graphical 
Bottom”.
Selecting an object and using one of these commands is the same as dragging 
them with the...

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5. If you have several subsequent bars to which you want to copy symbols, set 
the “Repeats” value to this number of bars.
If you only want to copy symbols from one bar to another, make sure that “Repeats” 
is set to 1. This option is only available for copying, not for moving.
6. If you want this dialog to appear every time you perform the move/copy 
operation, activate “Show Dialog”.
7. Click OK to close the dialog.
8. To copy the specified event...