Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual

Designing your score: additional techniques
Breaking bar lines
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Coordinates
Removes all manual spacing of note symbols and slurs.
Breaking bar lines
Sometimes you may not want a bar line to stretch all the way across a grand staff. 
If this is the case, you have the possibility to “break it”.
Manually
You can break the bar lines in one grand staff or in several grand staves and 
re-connect them.
Breaking bar lines in one grand staff
PROCEDURE
1. Select the Erase tool.
2. Click on a bar line...

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Breaking bar lines
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Re-connecting broken bar lines
If you have broken the bar lines, you can use the Glue tool to connect them again.
PROCEDURE
1. Select the Glue tool.
2. Click on one of the bar lines in the staff above the broken bar lines.
All bar lines between these staves in this grand staff are connected.
To re-connect bar lines in several grand staves, hold down [Alt]/[Option] and click 
with the Glue tool.
The bar lines between the corresponding...

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Scoring for drums
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
• How to set up the drum map.
• How to set up a staff for drum notes.
• How to enter and edit drum notes.
• How to use a single line drum staff.
Background: Drum maps in the Score Editor
When scoring for drums, you can assign a unique note head to each pitch. There is 
even the possibility to set up different note heads for different note values!
However, to be able to fully use this function, you need to understand a bit about...

Scoring for drums
Setting up the drum map
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RELATED LINKS
MIDI Editors on page 686
Use Score Drum Map on/off
For the drum map settings to be used in the score, you need to activate the “Use 
Score Drum Map” option in the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page (Options 
tab).
Setting up the drum map
To set up the drum map, proceed as follows:
PROCEDURE
1. Open the Score Editor for the drums track.
This should be a MIDI track to which you have assigned a drum map.
2. Open the Score Settings dialog and...

Scoring for drums
Setting up the drum map
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5. Make settings for the sounds/MIDI notes you need.
IMPORTANT
Please note that many different drum maps can be created for a project. Which one 
you get depends on which drum map is assigned to the edited track. These drum 
maps are totally independent of one another, i.
 e. each pitch can have different 
settings in different drum maps.
Score related options
Pitch
This corresponds to the I-note of the sound in the drum map, and cannot be 
edited here....

Scoring for drums
Setting up the drum map
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All head symbols are arranged in pairs – by default an “empty” head and a “filled” 
head. Just as with regular notes, the “empty” note heads are used with half notes and 
larger note values, and the “filled” heads are used with quarter notes and smaller note 
values.
2. To select a head pair for a drum sound/note, click in the Head symbol column 
to open the pop-up menu and choose the new head pair.
Customizing note head pairs
If you do not like the default...

Scoring for drums
Setting up a staff for drum scoring
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• Using the “Move to Voice” function changes the voice assignment of the drum 
sound.
NOTE
This requires that you leave the Drum Map Setup dialog open – closing the dialog 
automatically deactivates this option, allowing you to perform normal editing.
Setting up a staff for drum scoring
PROCEDURE
1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and select the Options tab.
2. Make sure that “Use Score Drum Map” is activated.
3. If you want a...

Scoring for drums
Using “Single Line Drum Staff”
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Using “Single Line Drum Staff”
When this option is activated on the Options tab of the Staff page in the Score 
Settings dialog, there is only one line in the system. Furthermore, notes can only 
appear below the line, on the line and above the line.
To decide which notes go where, proceed as follows:
PROCEDURE
1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and select the Options tab.
2. Activate “Use Score Drum Map” and “Single Line Drum...

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Creating tablature
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
• How to create tablature, automatically and manually.
• How to control the appearance of the tablature notes.
• How to edit tablature.
Cubase is able to produce score in tablature format. This can be done automatically, 
by “converting” recorded MIDI information. You can also create a tablature staff 
from scratch and enter the notes “by hand”.
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Even though we use the term 

Creating tablature
Creating tablature automatically
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3. Activate “Tablature Mode”.
4. Select one of the predefined instruments from the pop-up menu.
• If you are not using one of the predefined instruments, set the open tuning of 
each string using the value fields.
You can create tablature for up to 12 strings. To disable a string, set it to Off, 
the lowest value.
5. If you want to use a capodaster, e. g. on the forth fret, enter the corresponding 
value in the Capo field.
The tablature changes...