Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual
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• 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.
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Additional note and rest formatting
Stem length
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• 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...")
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2. Make sure that the “Stems/Beams” checkbox is activated on the filter bar.
Now, below the notes where stems have been changed or beam slant adjusted
manually, the word “Stem” appears.
3. Click on the “Stem” text to select it.
4. Press [Backspace] or [Delete] to remove it.
Before and after deleting the “Stem” item.
Accidentals and enharmonic shift
Making global settings
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2. Make sure that the “Stems/Beams” checkbox is activated on the filter bar.
Now, below the notes where stems have been changed or beam slant adjusted
manually, the word “Stem” appears.
3. Click on the “Stem” text to select it.
4. Press [Backspace] or [Delete] to remove it.
Before and after deleting the “Stem” item.
Accidentals and enharmonic shift
Making global settings
In the Score Settings dialog, on the Project page...")
Additional note and rest formatting Accidentals and enharmonic shift 1181 2. Make sure that the “Stems/Beams” checkbox is activated on the filter bar. Now, below the notes where stems have been changed or beam slant adjusted manually, the word “Stem” appears. 3. Click on the “Stem” text to select it. 4. Press [Backspace] or [Delete] to remove it. Before and after deleting the “Stem” item. Accidentals and enharmonic shift Making global settings In the Score Settings dialog, on the Project page (Accidentals subpage), you can find a number of options for how accidentals are displayed in the score. Once set, these are valid for all tracks in the project. Proceed as follows: PROCEDURE 1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Project page and select the Accidentals subpage from the Pages list. You have the following options: • Activate the “Courtesy Acc Distance” option and enter a value in the Bars field. This determines after how many measures courtesy accidentals are shown. If you set this to “0”, notes outside the scale get accidentals and no courtesy accidentals are shown. • Activate one of the following options: Option Description Force Notes outside the scale get accidentals, and accidentals are repeated even within the same bar. Force all Every single note in the score gets an accidental.
Additional note and rest formatting Accidentals and enharmonic shift1182 2. In the “Outside the Scale” area, you can decide how five of the most common intervals outside the scale are displayed, as sharps or as flats. IMPORTANT If you activate the “Accidentals for Each Note ” option in the Score Settings dialog, on the Project–Notation Style subpage (in the “H.W. Henze Style” category), all notes are displayed with accidentals (even tied notes). IMPORTANT If you activate “Use Chord Track for A ccidentals”, the chord track is used to determine the accidentals. RELATED LINKS Chord Functions on page 814 Enharmonic Shift If one or several notes are not displayed wi th the accidentals that you want, you can perform an Enharmonic Shift operation on them. PROCEDURE 1. Select the notes to be shifted. 2. Click the desired option on the extended toolbar. 3. If you want the enharmonic shift to be r epeated in the whole bar, activate the “Enharmonic shift for entire bar” option in the Score Settings dialog (Project–Accidentals subpage). Extended Toolbar Use these buttons when you want regu lar Enharmonic Shifting (select one option). Use this button when you want to deactivate Enharmonic Shifting for the notes. Use this button when you want to hide the accidental completely. Use this button when you want to create a “help accidental” for the selected notes only.
Additional note and rest formatting Changing the note head shape1183 Use this button when you want to enclose the accidental in parentheses. To remove these, select “off”. Changing the note head shape PROCEDURE 1. Select the notes for which you want to change the note head shape. Make sure not to select the stems, only the note heads. 2. Open the Set Note Info dialog. To do so, double-click one of the notes, click the “i” button on the extended toolbar, or right-click on a note head and select “Properties” from the context menu. 3. Open the “Note Head” pop-up menu in the top left corner of the dialog. The pop-up menu contains all the available head shapes and an “Auto” option, which selects the normal default shape for the note. 4. Select one of the note heads. 5. Click Apply. The settings are applied to the selected notes. 6. If you like, select other notes and make settings for them. 7. When you are done, close the dialog. Other note details Each note has a number of settin gs in the Set Note Info dialog.
Additional note and rest formatting Other note details 1184 The Set Note Info dialog contains the following settings: Note Head Used for selecting custom note head shapes. Tablature on/off and number Used for creating or editing tablature. This feature can be used for individual notes or together with the automatic tablature function. Bows Used for adding bow up/bow down articulation. When selecting “Off”, bow symbols are not displayed for the selected notes. Bow up and down Length This allows you to change the displayed length of notes, without affecting playback. Note that the display quantize settings still apply. To reset this value to “Auto” (so that notes are displayed according to their actual length), scroll the value down to zero. Accidental Distance Use this to specify how far from the note, horizontally, you want the accidental. The higher the number the greater the distance. No Ledger Lines Turns off ledger lines for notes with high or low pitches. With and without ledger lines No Stem Hides the note stem completely. No Dot Hides the dot from a dotted note.
Additional note and rest formatting Other note details 1185 No Flag/Beam Activate this to hide the flags or beams of the selected notes. Bracket Head When this is activated, notes are displayed with brackets: Bracket Head on and off X Stem (Spoken) When this option is activated for a note, it is displayed with an x across its stem. This is normally used to indicate spoken words. Hide Note Activating this checkbox hides the selected notes. Stem Determines the stem direction. Tie Determines the direction of ties. When this is set to “Auto”, the program chooses a tie direction depending on the stem direction of the tied notes. Type Determines the note type. There are four options: • Normal. This is how notes usually are displayed. • Grace. When this is selected, notes are displayed as grace notes. • Cue. When this is selected, notes are displayed as cue notes (smaller notes, often used as “guide notes” or optional lines). • Graphic. These are special notes, useful for example for guitar notation (pull-offs) and trills (as “help notes”, indicating which notes to trill between). In both these cases the “No Stems” option could be useful. Graphic notes are not included in the “automated cutting”. They are positioned after the notes they “belong to” (as opposed to grace notes). Crossed Activate this option, when you want the stem to be crossed by a slanted line (to indicate that the note is a grace note). Grace note options These options are available when Grace is selected on the Type pop-up menu. RELATED LINKS Changing the note head shape on page 1183 Creating tablature on page 1309 Display Quantize values on page 1156 Using Flip Stems on page 1178
Additional note and rest formatting Coloring notes 1186 Grace notes on page 1200 Cue notes on page 1199 The Cut Notes tool on page 1197 Coloring notes You can assign colors to notes using the Event Colors pop-up menu on the toolbar. PROCEDURE 1. Simply select the notes for which you want to use colors, open the Event Colors pop-up menu on the toolbar and pick a color. Only the note heads are colored. Note that the color is only visible once the notes have been deselected. 2. On the far right in the Score Editor toolbar you can find the Hide Colors button. If you assigned colors to some or all of the notes in your score, this button allows you to switch between display of colored or uncolored notes. This may help you to find selected notes among other colored notes.
Additional note and rest formatting Coloring notes 1187 Scores Colors for Additional Meanings If the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for Additional Meanings page) you can specify different colors for elements in the score in order to indicate that they are “special” in any way. You can for example choose a color for a “Moved Graphic” or a “Moved Slur”. These objects are colored accordingly when they are moved from their default positions. PROCEDURE 1. Open the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for Additional Meanings). 2. Click in the Active column to activate this function for the corresponding element. 3. Click in the Color field to the right to select a color. When color-printing a score, you get the colors you selected for the notes. When you are using a black-and-white printer, the notes appear in black (notes that have not been assigned a color) and different shades of gray (depending on how bright/dark a color was used for the note). RELATED LINKS Moving note symbols on page 1231
Additional note and rest formatting Copying settings between notes 1188 Copying settings between notes If you have made various settings in the Set Note Info dialog for a note, and want to use these settings for other notes as well, there is an easy way to do this: PROCEDURE 1. Set up the first note as desired. This includes the settings in the Set Note Info dialog, but also any note-related symbols such as accents, staccato, articulation, etc. 2. In the score, select the note and select “Copy” from the Edit menu. 3. Select the notes to which you want to copy the attributes. 4. Right-click the notes to which you want to copy the attributes, and select “Paste Attributes” from the context menu. The selected notes now get the attributes of the first, copied note, but their pitches and note values remain unchanged. RELATED LINKS Adding note symbols on page 1213 Handling beaming Turning beaming on/off Beaming is enabled/disabled independently for each staff. PROCEDURE 1. On the Staff page in the Score Settings dialog, click the Options tab. 2. To turn off beaming, activate No Beams and click Apply. Even if beaming is deactivated for the staff, you can put some notes under beams, as described below. Grouping When beaming is on, the program automatically groups notes under beams. However, there are a number of ways to determine how notes are grouped.
Additional note and rest formatting Handling beaming 1189 Using the Edit Time Signature dialog The time signature for the score naturally affects grouping. But you can control this yourself by creating a composite time signature used only for grouping: PROCEDURE 1. Open the Edit Time Signature dialog by double-clicking the time signature symbol for the staff. 2. Set up the numerator with the grouping you desire. If you for example want eighth notes in two groups of three and one group of two, enter 3+3+2. 3. Set the denominator, if necessary. 4. Activate “For Grouping Only”. 5. Click OK. IMPORTANT Note that the “For Grouping Only” setting only affects the way the numerator is divided. Any changes you make to the “sum” of the numerator number or the denominator result in a change of actual time signature in the project. If you need a grouping which cannot be entered in the current time signature, you have to group notes manually, see below. Regular grouping of a number of eighth notes or smaller (“Beam”) If the grouping the program assigns is not the one you want, you can put any selection of eighth notes or smaller under a beam: PROCEDURE 1. Select at least two notes, where you want the beam to begin and end. All notes between these two notes are grouped under a beam. 2. Click the Group Notes icon on the extended toolbar or right-click on one of the notes to be grouped and select “Beam” from the “Group/Ungroup” submenu of the context menu. The Group Notes icon
Additional note and rest formatting Handling beaming 1190 Before and after grouping Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the Grouping dialog, allowing you to adjust the “note value” for the symbols. Grouping quarter notes or larger under a beam (“Brillenbass”) It is also possible to use the grouping feature for notes that are not displayed with beams (quarter notes, half notes, etc.). The result are so called “Brillenbass” symbols, commonly used for indicating repeated accompaniment patterns, etc. • Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the Grouping dialog, allowing you to adjust the “note value” for the symbols. Grouping notes using Repeats To show Repeats for the grouped notes, proceed as follows: PROCEDURE 1. Make sure that the filter bar is visible in the Score Editor. If the filter bar is not visible, click the “Set up Window Layouts” button on the toolbar and select the Filters option. 2. Activate the “Grouping” checkbox in the filter bar. Now, you see the text “Grouping” below all groups you have created. 3. Select the desired notes. 4. Right-click on one of the notes and from the Group/Ungroup submenu, select “Repeat...” 5. In the dialog that appears, use the radio buttons to select the desired note value for the repeats. In this example, the “Repeat” feature is used to display two pairs of sixteenth notes as two eighth notes with “repeat bars”. Note that the second and fourth sixteenth note have only been hidden – playback is not affected!