Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual
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Polyphonic voicing
Moving notes between voices
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3. On the submenu, select the voice to which you want to move the notes.
Only the activated voices are available on the menu.
You can also press [Ctrl]/[Command] and click a voice Insert button on the extended
toolbar to move the selected notes to the corresponding voice.
You can also assign key commands for this in the Score Functions category of the
Key Commands dialog on the File menu.
Automatically – the Explode function
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Polyphonic voicing
Moving notes between voices
1170
3. On the submenu, select the voice to which you want to move the notes.
Only the activated voices are available on the menu.
You can also press [Ctrl]/[Command] and click a voice Insert button on the extended
toolbar to move the selected notes to the corresponding voice.
You can also assign key commands for this in the Score Functions category of the
Key Commands dialog on the File menu.
Automatically – the Explode function
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Polyphonic voicing Moving notes between voices 1171 4. Click OK. The notes are distributed to different voices. RELATED LINKS The Explode function on page 1124 Alternative ways of handling voices Below we suggest further “advanced” ways of putting notes into voices. This is based on the relation between voices and MIDI channels, so please make sure that you understand how this connection works. •Cubase Pro only: You can use the Logical Editor to put notes into voices, based on other more complex criteria, like for example their pitch and length. This is done by setting up the Logical Editor so that the notes that meet the criteria get their MIDI channel changed to that of their voice. • When you enter notes using step input you can change the MIDI channel on your input device and directly enter notes into separate voices. • You can play back each voice on a different MIDI channel, simply by setting the track to Any. This can be used as a convenient way of “proof-hearing” each voice separately. • You can use the Input Transformer to assign a certain key range to a MIDI channel, and thereby automatically put notes into voices when recording. • For brass and vocals, you might record each voice on its own track, and use the “Merge All Staves” function to automatically copy each recording to a separate voice on a new track. • When you have assigned parts to voices, you can use the Extract Voices function to create one track out of each voice. RELATED LINKS The Logical Editor, Transformer, and Input Transformer on page 859 Automatic polyphonic voicing – Merge All Staves on page 1175 Converting voices to tracks – Extract Voices on page 1176 Option Description Split Note Use this to move all notes below a certain pitch to another voice. Lines To Tracks Use this when you want all musical “lines” to be put in one voice each. The notes with the highest pitch goes to the first voice, the notes with the second highest pitch goes to the second, and so on. Bass To Lowest Voice When this is activated, the lowest notes always ends up in the lowest voice.
Polyphonic voicing Handling rests 1172 Handling rests With polyphonic voices, you often get more rest symbols than desired. • If a voice does not need any rests at all, you can deactivate rests separately for this voice on the Polyphonic tab of the Staff page in the Score Settings dialog. • If you only need rests from one voice on a staff, activate Rests–Center for that voice (this is done in the same dialog). If two or more voices have rests, deactivate Rests–Center. The program then automatically makes sure the rests do not “collide” in the score, by adjusting their vertical position. • To avoid having several rests displayed in empty bars, you can activate the Rests–Reduce option for all voices (that have rests) except one. This option causes the program to hide rests in empty bars. • You can use the Hide feature to totally remove individual superfluous rests from the score. • You can use the Object Selection tool to manually move rests up/down or sideways to adjust the “picture”. • If needed you can add “rest symbols” (rests that do not affect the playback data in any way) by using the symbols. RELATED LINKS Hiding/showing objects on page 1283 Voices and Display Quantize When you insert Display Quantize changes, you can either apply the settings to all voices (by [Alt]/[Option]-clicking with the tool) or to the current voice only. IMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANT If
Polyphonic voicing Creating crossed voicings 1173 • Insert Display Quantize “exceptions” anywhere in the score, independently for each voice. PROCEDURE 1. Make sure that the “Display Quantize Tool affects all Voices” option is deactivated. 2. Select the voice for which you want to insert a Display Quantize event. This is done by clicking at the corresponding voice button on the extended toolbar as described above, or by selecting a note that belongs to this voice. 3. Select the Display Quantize tool. 4. Click at the position at which you want to insert the event. The Display Quantize dialog appears. 5. Fill out the dialog. 6. Click Apply. RELATED LINKS Inserting Display Quantize changes on page 1122 Display Quantize and Interpretation Options on page 1155 Creating crossed voicings Often, for example in vocal scoring, you have crossed voicings on one system. You can of course move notes manually into voices to get the stem direction and other note properties right, but there is a quicker way. Let’s explain how to do this by example. Without using polyphonic voicing, you have entered this: PROCEDURE 1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and select the Polyphonic tab. 2. From the Staff Mode pop-up menu, select Polyphonic. 3. Activate voice 1 and 2 only, and make settings for them as in the picture below.
Polyphonic voicing Creating crossed voicings 1174 4. Click Apply. The staff is in Polyphonic staff mode, but all notes are still in the same voice. 5. Open the Scores menu and select “Explode” from the Functions submenu. 6. In the dialog that appears, select the “To Polyphonic Voices” option and activate “Lines To Tracks”. Leave the other options off. 7. Click OK. The notes have now been split in two “lines”, each in a separate voice. However, from the middle of the bar, notes that are in voice 1 should be in voice 2 and vice versa. 8. Select the two notes that you want to be moved from voice 1 to voice 2. Two notes in voice 1 selected. 9. Move the notes to voice 2. The quickest way to do this is to press [Ctrl]/[Command] and click the voice Insert [2] button on the extended toolbar. Two notes moved to the right voice. 10. Select the two notes that you want to be moved to voice 1 and move them, too. All notes in the right voices. RESULT The voicing is now correct, as you can tell from the stem directions. However, there is still some work to do on the notes graphical positions and the display of stems and beams for some of the notes. When you have made those adjustments, the score may look like this:
Polyphonic voicing Automatic polyphonic voicing – Merge All Staves 1175 After making graphical adjustments. RELATED LINKS Graphic moving of notes on page 1198 Manual adjustment of beams on page 1195 Automatic polyphonic voicing – Merge All Staves If you have already created some tracks which look and play back as they should, and you want to combine these into one track with polyphonic voices, there is a special function on the Scores menu for this: PROCEDURE 1. Open the tracks (up to four) in the Score Editor. 2. Open the Scores menu and select “Merge All Staves” from the Functions submenu. Now a new track is created and shown in the score. The track has polyphonic voices activated, and the four original tracks are assigned to one voice each (voices 1, 2, 5 and 6 are used). Before… …and after merging the staves Furthermore, all non-linked symbols that belong to the staff that become the first polyphonic voice in the merged staff are copied. They have the same positions as the original symbols. IMPORTANT When you later play back the music, you need to mute the four original tracks, or you get double notes.
Polyphonic voicing Converting voices to tracks – Extract Voices 1176 Converting voices to tracks – Extract Voices This function does the opposite of “Merge All Staves” – it extracts polyphonic voices from an existing track and creates new tracks, one for each voice. PROCEDURE 1. Open a track containing 2 to 8 polyphonic voices in the Score Editor. 2. Open the Scores menu and select “Extract Voices” from the Functions submenu. A number of new tracks is created and added to the display of the Score Editor. Each track contains the music from one polyphonic voice. If there were non-linked symbols in the original track, each new track gets a copy of these symbols. IMPORTANT When you later play back the music, you need to mute the original track (the one with polyphonic voices), or you get double notes.
1177 Additional note and rest formatting About this chapter In this chapter you will learn: • How to control stem direction. • How to control beaming, and create cross-staff beaming. • How to make detailed adjustments to note appearance. • How to perform “graphic moving” of notes. • How to create grace notes. • How to create tuplets. Background: Note stems The direction of stems is governed by five things: • How notes are grouped under beams. • Any manual manipulation of beams. • The Flip Stems function. • How the note information is set for each note. • How the Polyphonic tab on the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog is set up (if you use polyphonic voices). The order of this list corresponds to the priority of the settings, i. e. on conflict, the grouping under beams has the highest priority and the settings made on the Polyphonic tab the lowest. IMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANT If you have edited the stem length of a note and then flip it, the stem is reset to default length.
Additional note and rest formatting Setting stem direction 1178 IMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANT If you have activated the “Fixed Stems” option on the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog (Options tab), a lot of the automatic stem length settings are ignored. However, you can still edit the stem length and direction of individual notes. RELATED LINKS Fixed Stems on page 1162 Setting stem direction In polyphonic voices In the Score Settings dialog, on the Staff page (Polyphonic tab), the stem direction can be set separately for each voice. Using Flip Stems Flipping the stem of one or several notes PROCEDURE 1. Select the notes. 2. Click the Flip icon on the extended toolbar. All the stems in the selection are now flipped. Those that pointed up now point down and vice versa. The Flip icon You can also assign a key command for this. In the Key Commands dialog on the File menu, the command is called “Flip” and is found in the Score Functions category. You can also right-click a note or a selection of notes and select the Flip option from the context menu.
Additional note and rest formatting Setting stem direction 1179 Flipping the stems of notes grouped under a beam PROCEDURE 1. Select any note in the group. 2. Invoke Flip as described above. The entire group is now flipped. Before and after the flip. No matter which note you select, the entire group is flipped. IMPORTANT This does not work if you have adjusted the slanting of the beam by dragging. If you have, you must first reset the beam. RELATED LINKS Stem length on page 1180 Independent stem direction under a beam If you need stems attached to the same beam to go in different directions, this is achieved by dragging the beam’s start and end points. This feature is available in Page Mode only. Independent stem direction under a beam RELATED LINKS Manual adjustment of beams on page 1195 Stem direction in the Set Note Info dialog The Set Note Info dialog can be opened by double-clicking on a note head. In its lower left corner you can find a pop-up menu for setting stem direction.
Additional note and rest formatting Stem length 1180 • Setting this pop-up menu to Up or Down is the same as using Flip Stems. • Setting this pop-up menu to Auto makes the program set the stem direction automatically. RELATED LINKS Using Flip Stems on page 1178 Stem length Adjusting stem length (Page Mode) PROCEDURE 1. Click on the end of the stem so that a handle appears. 2. If you want to change the lengths of several stems at the same time, hold down [Shift] and select these stems as well. 3. Drag the stem handle (on one of the selected stems) up or down. All selected stems are lengthened or shortened by the same amount. Resetting stem length and beam slants PROCEDURE 1. Make sure that the filter bar is visible. If the filter bar is not visible, click the “Set up Window Layout” button on the toolbar and select the Filters option.