Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual

MIDI Editors
Basic Score Editor (Cubase Artist only)
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Move Insert Mode
Activates/Deactivates the Move Insert mode. For this function, Step Input 
must be activated.
Record Pitch
If Step Input is activated, use this button to determine that the pitch is 
included when you insert notes.
Record NoteOn Velocity
If Step Input is activated, use this button to determine that NoteOn Velocity 
is included when you insert notes.
Record NoteOff Velocity
If Step Input is activated, use this button to determine...

MIDI Editors
Basic Score Editor (Cubase Artist only)732
To show or hide the status line, click Set up Window Layout  on the toolbar, and 
activate or deactivate  Status Line.
Mouse Time Position
Displays the exact time position of the mouse pointer, depending on the 
sele
cted ruler display format. This lets  you edit or insert notes at exact 
positions.
Mouse Note Position Displays the exact pitch of the mouse pointer position. This facilitates finding 
t
he right pitch when entering or transposing...

MIDI Editors
Basic Score Editor (Cubase Artist only)
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Enharmonic Shift
Allows you to manually select whether a note is displayed with flat or sharp 
accidentals. The Off button resets the notes to original display. The other 
options are double flats, flats, No (no accidentals shown, regardless of 
pitch), sharps, and double sharps.
RELATED LINKS
Enharmonic Shift on page 740
Score Display
The main area of the Score Editor window shows the notes in the edited parts on 
one or several staves. Parts on...

MIDI Editors
Score Editor Operations (Cubase Artist only)
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Score Editor Operations (Cubase Artist only)
This section describes the principal editing operations within the Score Editor.
Improving the Score Display
When you open the Score Editor for a part that was recorded in real time, the score 
may not look as legible as you expect. The Score Editor can ignore the minor time 
variances in performance and make a neater score. To achieve this, the Staff 
Settings dialog provides settings that...

MIDI Editors
Score Editor Operations (Cubase Artist only)
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•In Split mode, the part is split on the screen into a bass and treble clef, as in 
a piano score.
The Split Point value determines where you want the split to occur. Notes 
above and including the split note appear on the upper staff, and notes below 
the split note appear on the lower staff.
Before and after setting a split at C3.
Display Quantize
This section allows you to change the way Cubase displays scores....

MIDI Editors
Score Editor Operations (Cubase Artist only)
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Dev.
If this option is activated, triplets/straight notes are detected even if they are 
not exactly on the beat. However, if you know that your triplets/straight notes 
are perfectly recorded, either through quantizing or entered by hand, 
deactivate this option.
This option is only available if Auto Quantize is activated.
Adapt
If this option is activated, the program guesses that when one triplet is found, 
there are probably more triplets...

MIDI Editors
Score Editor Operations (Cubase Artist only)
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Interpretation Options
In this section, you can make additional settings on how the score is displayed.
Clean Lengths
If this option is activated, notes that are considered to be chords are shown 
with identical lengths. Longer notes are displayed shorter than they are. Notes 
with very short overlaps are also cut off. This is similar to the No Overlap 
option, but with a more subtle effect.
No Overlap
If this option is activated, one note is...

MIDI Editors
Score Editor Operations (Cubase Artist only)
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With the quantize value set to 1/8, you can only input notes at eighth note positions.
You can also use the Quantize Panel to create other quantize values, irregular 
grids, etc.
Creating Notes
In the score display, the Insert Note tool allows you to create notes. However, you 
must first set the note value (length) and spacing.
PROCEDURE
1. Set the note value in one of the following ways:
• Click the note symbols on the extended toolbar.
•...

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Score Editor Operations (Cubase Artist only)
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Moving and Transposing Notes
PROCEDURE
1. Open the Quantize Presets pop-up menu on the toolbar and select a 
quantize value.
2. If you want to hear the pitch of the note while moving, activate the Acoustic 
Feedback button on the toolbar.
3. Select the notes that you want to move.
4. Click one of the selected notes and drag it to a new position and/or pitch.
The horizontal movement of the note is snaps to the current quantize value. The...

MIDI Editors
Score Editor Operations (Cubase Artist only)
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Splitting and Gluing Note Events
• To split 2 notes that are strung together by a tie, click on the tied note head 
with the Cut tool.
The note is divided into two, with the respective length of the main and the 
tied note.
• To glue a note to the next note with the same pitch, click on a note with the 
Glue tool.
Enharmonic Shift
You can shift the display of selected notes. For example, an F# (F sharp) is instead 
shown as a Gb (G flat) and...