Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual

Designing your score: additional techniques
Layout settings
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Equal Spacing
Activate this option when you want a note to take up space according to its note 
value. When Equal Spacing is activated, two sixteenth notes take up as much space 
as one eighth note, for example.
Size
Changes the size of all staves.
RELATED LINKS
Staff size on page 1282
Multi-Rests
Whenever more than one-bar rests occur, the program can replace these with a 
multi-rest symbol. This parameter allows you to set how many empty...

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Staff size
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• If you prefer to display the score in a more modern way, check out the other 
options on the Notation Style subpage.
For descriptions of the options use the Help button in the dialog.
Staff size
You can set the staff size as a percentage value of the normal size.
For one staff
To set the staff size for one staff, proceed as follows:
PROCEDURE
1. Make sure that the staff you want to edit is active.
2. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff...

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Hiding/showing objects
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Hiding/showing objects
Any object on a page can be hidden, including notes, rests, symbols, clefs, bar lines, 
even entire staves.
This can be useful in the following situations:
Printing scales
If you want to create scale examples, enter the notes and hide time signatures, bar 
lines and other unwanted objects.
A scale created with hidden bar lines, time signatures, etc.
Graphic notation
By hiding bar lines, you can produce graphic...

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Hiding/showing objects
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Hiding in the current layout only
If you want the hiding to be “local” to the current layout, hold down 
[Ctrl]/[Command] when selecting “Hide/Show” as described above.
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This is not possible when hiding notes, only other symbols.
NOTE
You can also move hidden objects to the layout by right-clicking the 

Designing your score: additional techniques
Coloring notes
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Showing a hidden note
While all hidden notes can be made visible by ticking the Hidden Notes checkbox 
on the filter bar, you may want to make some of them “permanently” visible again:
PROCEDURE
1. Activate the Hidden Notes checkbox on the filter bar.
2. Select the notes that you want to “un-hide”.
In the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for Additional Meanings) you can set the 
color for hidden notes.
3. Double-click one of the notes.
4....

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Multiple rests
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Splitting multi-rests
To divide one long multiple rest into several shorter ones, proceed as follows:
PROCEDURE
1. Double-click on the multi-rest symbol.
The Split Multi-Rest dialog appears:
2. In the dialog, enter the bar number where you want the first split.
3. Click OK.
If you need more splits, double-click on any multi-rest symbol and proceed as above.
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The program automatically splits multi-rests at time signature changes,...

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Editing existing bar lines
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• On the Font Settings subpage, you can select a font for the multi-rest 
numbers (select “Multi-Rests” in the “Font For” pop-up menu and make the 
desired settings).
Editing existing bar lines
For each bar line, you can choose whether you want a regular, single bar line, a 
double bar line, a repeat sign, etc.:
PROCEDURE
1. Double-click on the bar line for which you want to edit the settings.
A dialog appears with a number of...

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Creating upbeats
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By using the Pickup Bar feature
With this method, the upbeat actually contains exactly the number of beats 
displayed. That is, if you have an upbeat of one beat, your project starts with one bar 
in 1/4 time.
PROCEDURE
1. Change the time signature of the first bar to the length of the upbeat.
2. Insert a time signature of the correct kind (the time signature used throughout 
the project) in the second bar.
To insert a time signature,...

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Setting the number of bars across the page
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By hiding rests
With this method, the first bar actually gets the same time signature as the following 
bars – it only looks like an upbeat bar:
PROCEDURE
1. Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar.
The first bar before making any adjustments
2. Hide the rests that precede the notes.
3. Drag the bar line between measure one and two to adjust the width of the bar.
After hiding the rest and dragging the bar...

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Setting the number of bars across the page
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Manually
In Page Mode, you have full control over the number of bars appearing across the 
page, by using the Number of Bars dialog or the tools.
NOTE
If you want to use the “Max. number of Bars” option in the Auto Layout dialog, you 
should do this before you adjust the number of bars manually.
RELATED LINKS
Auto Layout on page 1297
Using the Number of Bars dialog
PROCEDURE
1. Make a staff active in the system...