Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual
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Entering and editing notes
Selecting notes
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You can drag to select notes on several voices or staves if you wish.
3. Release the mouse button.
All notes with note heads inside the rectangle are selected.
If you want to deselect one or more of the notes, hold down [Shift] and click on them.
Using the keyboard
By default, you can step through (and select) the notes in the staff using the left and
right arrow keys. If you press [Shift], you can select a series of notes as you step
through them.
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Entering and editing notes
Selecting notes
1136
You can drag to select notes on several voices or staves if you wish.
3. Release the mouse button.
All notes with note heads inside the rectangle are selected.
If you want to deselect one or more of the notes, hold down [Shift] and click on them.
Using the keyboard
By default, you can step through (and select) the notes in the staff using the left and
right arrow keys. If you press [Shift], you can select a series of notes as you step
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Entering and editing notes Editing pitches of individual notes 1141 A copy of the notes is made, and put on the clipboard. The original notes remain where they were. IMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANT The clipboard can only hold one set of notes. If you cut or copy and then cut or copy again, the notes copied to the clipboard first are lost. Inserting notes from the clip board to the score Notes that you have put on the clipboard by cutting or copying can be inserted into the score again as follows: PROCEDURE 1. Activate the desired staff. 2. Move the project cursor to the position where you want the first note to appear. This is done by holding down [Alt]/[Option] and [Shift] and clicking at the desired position in the score. 3. Select Paste from the Edit menu (or use a key command, by default [Ctrl]/[Command]-[V]). The notes are pasted in, beginning at the project cursor. If the cut or copied notes come from different staves, they are also inserted on different staves. Otherwise, the notes are inserted on the active staff. They keep the pitch and relative positions they had when you cut or copied them. Editing pitches of individual notes By dragging The simplest way to edit the pitch of a note is to drag it up or down. Remember to hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] to avoid moving the note sideways as well. • If the “Keep moved Notes within Key” option is activated in the Preferences dialog (Scores–Editing page), notes are transposed within the current key only. • To avoid accidentally moving the note into another staff, activate the Lock button. • When you drag the mouse up and down before releasing the button, accidentals are shown beside the note to indicate the current pitch. This helps you verify the vertical position for the note. RELATED LINKS Moving across staves – the Lock button on page 1138
Entering and editing notes Editing pitches of individual notes 1142 Using the Transpose Palette The Transpose Palette on the toolbar contains buttons for transposing the selected notes up or down in steps of one semitone or one octave. • To show the Transpose Palette, right-click the toolbar and activate “Transpose Palette” on the context menu. Using key commands Instead of transposing the note with the mouse, you can assign key commands for this. • The commands for which you can assign key commands are found in the Nudge category in the Key Commands dialog. Transpose commands are, for example, “Up” (transpose one semitone up) and “Down” (transpose one semitone down). Using the info line You can use the info line to change the pitches (and other properties) of one or several notes numerically. • If you have several notes selected and change the pitch on the info line, the changes are relative. That is, all selected notes are transposed by an equal amount. • If you have several notes selected, hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] and change the pitch on the info line, the changes are absolute. That is, all selected notes are set to the same pitch. RELATED LINKS Info Line on page 47 Via MIDI PROCEDURE 1. On the toolbar, activate the MIDI Input button and the Record Pitch button to the right. If you also want to change the note-on and/or note-off velocity of the notes via MIDI, this can be done by also activating the corresponding velocity buttons. To edit notes via MIDI (pitches only), set up the buttons like this. 2. Select the first note that you want to edit.
Entering and editing notes Changing the length of notes 1143 3. Press a key on your MIDI keyboard. The note takes on the pitch of the key you pressed. The program then selects the next note. 4. To change the pitch of the next selected note, simply press the desired key. In this manner you can change the pitches of as many notes as you wish, by simply pressing the relevant keys. You can also use key commands (by default the left and right arrow key) to pass from one note to the other. For example, if you make a mistake, you can step back to the previous note by pressing the left arrow key. RELATED LINKS MIDI Editors on page 686 Changing the length of notes When it comes to note lengths, the Score Editor is special in that it does not necessarily display the notes with their actual length. Depending on the situation, you may want to change the “physical length” of the notes or the “display length”. Changing the “physical” length This changes the actual length of the notes. The change is audible when you play back the music. IMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANT Remember that the appearance of notes and rests in the score is determined by the Display Quantize settings on the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog. Depending on the Notes and Rests values, notes may be displayed as if they were longer than they really are. RELATED LINKS Display Quantize on page 1090 By using the extended toolbar Using the extended toolbar is another quick way to set a number of notes to the same length: PROCEDURE 1. Select the notes that you want to change. 2. Hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] and click on one of the note icons on the extended toolbar. All the selected notes now get the note value on which you clicked.
Entering and editing notes Changing the length of notes 1144 By using the info line You can also edit length values numerically on the info line. The same rules apply as when changing the pitch of notes. RELATED LINKS Using the info line on page 1142 Lengthening a note by gluing two notes together You can create unusual note length values by gluing notes of the same pitch together. PROCEDURE 1. Insert the notes that you want to glue together (if they do not already exist). 2. Select the Glue tool on the toolbar or context menu. 3. Click on the first note. This note is now tied to the first following note with the same pitch. IMPORTANT Make sure that you have Display Quantize values for notes and rests that allow you to display notes of the created note value. 4. If you want to glue more notes, click again. By gluing together a quarter note, an eighth note and a sixteenth note… …you get a double dotted quarter note. Changing the display length If you want to change the displayed length of notes without affecting how they play back, the first thing to try is to adjust Display Quantize, either for the whole staff or for a separate section, using the Display Quantize tool. But you can also make display length adjustments to individual notes in the Set Note Info dialog: PROCEDURE 1. Double-click on the note. The Set Note Info dialog opens.
Entering and editing notes Splitting a note in two 1145 2. Locate the “Length” setting. By default, this is set to “Auto”, which means that the note is displayed according to its actual length (and the Display Quantize settings). 3. Double-click in the value field and enter a new length value (displayed in bars, beats, sixteenth notes, and ticks). To set the display length to “Auto” again, scroll the value down to zero. 4. Click Apply and close the dialog. The note is now displayed according to its display length setting. However, the Display Quantize settings still apply! RELATED LINKS Inserting Display Quantize changes on page 1122 Splitting a note in two If you have two notes strung together by a tie, and click on the “tied” note head with the Split tool, the note is divided into two, with the length of the “main” and the tied note, respectively. Before and after splitting a tied note Working with the Display Quantize tool There are instances when you want different staff settings for different sections of the track. The settings on the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog are valid for the entire track, but by using the Display Quantize tool you are able to insert changes and exceptions wherever you like. RELATED LINKS Inserting Display Quantize changes on page 1122
Entering and editing notes Split (piano) staves 1146 Split (piano) staves Setting up the split staff PROCEDURE 1. Make a staff active. 2. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and select the Polyphonic tab. 3. From the Staff Mode pop-up menu, select Split. 4. Set the Split Point value to a suitable note. All notes below this note value are put on the lower clef, all above are put on the upper clef. Split mode selected. If the default piano clef settings for the upper and lower staff are not what you want, you can adjust these settings now (or you can make key and clef adjustments directly in the score). 5. Make whatever additional staff settings you need. These apply to both the upper and lower staves of the split system. 6. Click Apply. Before and after setting a split at C3 RELATED LINKS Setting clef, key, and time signature on page 1106 Changing the split point PROCEDURE 1. Make sure that the system you are working on is active. 2. Open the Score Settings and select the Staff page.
Entering and editing notes Strategies: Multiple staves 1147 3. Select the Polyphonic tab. 4. Change the Split Point value. 5. Click Apply. RESULT Now, some notes that were previously on the lower staff are on the upper, or vice versa. Strategies: Multiple staves As described above, when you have parts on several tracks selected in the Project window, these are put on one staff each, when you open the Score Editor. This allows you to work on several staves in parallel. Working with several staves is not much different from working with one. Below follow some guidelines that apply specifically to working with multiple staves. Score settings dialog, Staff page The settings on the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog are local to each staff. You can have the Score Settings dialog open and select each staff in turn to make settings – just remember to click Apply before selecting another staff, otherwise your changes are lost. If several staves share settings, you can save some time by using staff presets. Set up the staff settings for the first staff, and save them as a preset. This preset can then be applied to any of the other staves, one at a time. RELATED LINKS Working with staff presets on page 1153 Selecting notes You can select notes from one or several staves at the same time, using any of the selection methods. RELATED LINKS Selecting notes on page 1135
Entering and editing notes Inserting and editing clefs, keys, or time signatures 1148 Adding notes This is done just as on a single system. Please note the following: • When you enter a note, use the Mouse Note Position display (in the status line) to determine the pitch. Whether it ends up on the upper or lower staff has nothing to do with where you aim with the mouse. The Split Point setting always decides if a note goes on the upper or lower staff. If you change the split point, this affects existing notes, see below. • Sometimes a fixed split point is not good enough. You might want to put two notes with the same pitch on different staves in different parts of the score. To achieve this you need to use polyphonic voicing. • You can add notes to any staff by clicking on it with the Insert Note tool. The active staff rectangle moves to the staff where you input the note. • If you need to enter a note with a very high or low pitch, which makes it wind up on the wrong staff when you click, first enter a note with the wrong pitch, and then edit its pitch. RELATED LINKS Adding and editing notes on page 1132 Polyphonic voicing on page 1163 Editing pitches of individual notes on page 1141 Inserting and editing clefs, keys, or time signatures It is possible to insert a change of clef, key, or time signature anywhere in the score. Inserting a symbol on one staff PROCEDURE 1. In the Symbols Inspector, open the “Clefs etc.” tab. This contains clef, key, and time signature symbols. 2. Select the symbol that you want to insert. When you move the mouse over the score display, the pointer takes on the form of a pencil. 3. Move the mouse over the staff where you want to insert a new symbol. Use the Mouse Time Position display in the status line to find the exact location. The Mouse Note Position, i. e. the vertical position is of no relevance as long as you click somewhere in the staff. Time signature changes can only be inserted at the beginning of a bar.
Entering and editing notes Inserting and editing clefs, keys, or time signatures 1149 4. Click the mouse button to insert the symbol. IMPORTANT Inserting a symbol at position 1.1.1.0 is the same as changing the staff settings which are stored in the track. Inserting anywhere else adds the change to the part. RELATED LINKS About the Draw tool on page 1212 Inserting a symbol on all staves If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] when you insert a symbol with the Draw tool, it is inserted at this position on all staves currently being edited in the Score Editor. • Time signature changes are always inserted on all tracks in the score. Or rather, they are inserted on the signature track, which affects all tracks. • For key changes, Display Transpose is taken into account. This allows you to set all staves to a new key and the staves set to Display Transpose still show the correct key after the key change. NOTE If some of the staves are bracketed (straight brackets only, as set up in the Score Settings dialog on the Layout page), inserting a symbol for one of these staves inserts it for all other staves within the bracket. Staves outside the bracket are not affected. RELATED LINKS Adding brackets and braces on page 1296 Editing clefs, keys, and time signatures If you double-click on a symbol, a dialog appears allowing you to change the settings for it. If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] when double-clicking, all symbols at the same position are changed accordingly. With key signatures, the Display Transpose value is taken into account as described above. • In the Score Settings dialog on the Project page (Notation Style subpage), you can find several options for how clef, key, and time signature changes are displayed. You can also adjust the automatic spacing between these symbols in the Spacings subpage. See the dialog help for details.
Entering and editing notes Deleting notes 1150 Moving clefs Clefs inserted into the score have an effect on how notes are displayed. If you for example insert a bass clef in the middle of a treble staff, the staff switches to show bass pitches. Therefore it is very important where you insert the clef. If you want to move the clef graphically, without disturbing the relation between the clef and the notes, proceed as follows: PROCEDURE 1. Select the Layout tool on the toolbar or context menu. Note that this tool is available in Page Mode only. 2. Click on the clef and drag it to the desired position. Note that this tool is available in Page Mode only. NOTE When you insert a clef change in the score, you can decide whether this has the same size as the first (default) clef symbol or whether it is displayed with a smaller symbol. Simply right-click the symbol and activate or deactivate “Display Clef Changes as Small Symbols”. NOTE When “Warnings for new Clefs at Line Breaks” is activated on the Clef context menu and you inserted a clef change at a line break in the score, the Clef change symbol is inserted in the last bar before the staff break. When this is deactivated, the symbol is inserted in the first bar of the next staff line. Deleting notes Using the Erase tool PROCEDURE 1. Select the Erase tool on the toolbar or context menu. 2. One at a time, click on the note(s) you want to erase, or enclose them in a selection rectangle, and click on any of the notes.