Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual
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Removing groups
If you have created a group as described above and want to remove it, proceed as
follows:
PROCEDURE
1. Make sure that the “Grouping” checkbox is activated in the display filter bar.
2. Select a group by clicking on its “Grouping” text.
3. Press [Backspace] or [Delete].
The grouping is removed.
If you need to remove all groups from the score, hold down [Shift] and double-click
on the first “Grouping” text.
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Additional note and rest formatting
Handling beaming
1192
Removing groups
If you have created a group as described above and want to remove it, proceed as
follows:
PROCEDURE
1. Make sure that the “Grouping” checkbox is activated in the display filter bar.
2. Select a group by clicking on its “Grouping” text.
3. Press [Backspace] or [Delete].
The grouping is removed.
If you need to remove all groups from the score, hold down [Shift] and double-click
on the first “Grouping” text.
This selects all...")
Additional note and rest formatting Handling beaming 1191 6. Click OK to close the dialog. Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the Grouping dialog, allowing you to adjust the “note value” for the symbols. Creating an accelerando/ritardando To create an accelerando/ritardando, proceed as follows: PROCEDURE 1. Select the notes as described above and select “Accelerando” from the Group/Ungroup submenu. A dialog appears. 2. Use the radio buttons to select the desired combination (i. e. define whether you want an accelerando or a ritardando and specify the desired note values) and click OK to close the dialog. Example for accelerando (left) and ritardando (right) Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the Grouping dialog, allowing you to select another combination. The Grouping dialog As described above, the Grouping dialog can also be opened by double-clicking an existing grouping text in the score. • Which Grouping dialog appears depends on the grouping option you used for the notes (Beam, Repeats or Accelerando, see above).
Additional note and rest formatting Handling beaming 1192 Removing groups If you have created a group as described above and want to remove it, proceed as follows: PROCEDURE 1. Make sure that the “Grouping” checkbox is activated in the display filter bar. 2. Select a group by clicking on its “Grouping” text. 3. Press [Backspace] or [Delete]. The grouping is removed. If you need to remove all groups from the score, hold down [Shift] and double-click on the first “Grouping” text. This selects all “Grouping” symbols, so you can delete them all at once by pressing [Backspace] or [Delete]. Removing a note from a group There is no dedicated “ungroup” command, simply because it is not needed. A group can consist of one note if you wish. In other words... • To remove one note at the end of a group, select it and proceed with grouping as above. • If you select notes in the middle of a beam and then group, three groups are created. Before and after grouping Automatic grouping The program can also go through the selected notes and automatically create grouping for you, where it is deemed suitable. PROCEDURE 1. Select the notes that you want checked for auto-grouping. Typically, you would select all notes on the track by using the Select All command on the Edit menu. 2. Right-click on one of the notes and select “Auto Group Notes” from the context menu.
Additional note and rest formatting Handling beaming 1193 Before and after using auto grouping in 4/4 In 4/4 you get for example two groups of eighth notes per bar, in 3/4 you get one group per bar, etc. Cross-staff beaming To create a beam that extends from one staff to another, proceed as follows: PROCEDURE 1. Set up a split or polyphonic voicing system or open the Score Editor with more than one track. 2. Set up a beam of notes (using the group command) and adjust their pitches so that they are correct even though some of the notes are on the wrong staff. Use the info line to edit the pitches if they are very low or high. 3. Select the notes that should appear on the other staff. 4. Select “Display in Staff” from the context menu for a selected note and select a staff from the submenu. The notes are “graphically” moved to the selected system, but keep their actual pitch. Before and after moving a note to the lower staff 5. If needed, adjust the beam appearance. Cross-staff beaming with the beam in the middle This does not move the affected notes to another track, but merely displays them as if they belonged to the other staff. RELATED LINKS Manual adjustment of beams on page 1195
Additional note and rest formatting Handling beaming 1194 Handling beam groups There are two settings for groups under a beam, Beam Subgroups and 16th Subgroups, both found on the Options tab on the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog. If “Beam Subgroups” is activated, the program displays subgroups after four sixteenth notes under a beam. If you also activate “16th Subgroups”, subgroups appear after only two sixteenths. Beam Subgroups off Beam Subgroups on On with 16th Subgroups activated Beam appearance and slant settings Global settings In the Score Settings dialog, on the Project page (Notation Style subpage), you can find the following three options for beam appearance in the Beams category: • Thick Beams. Activate this if you want beams to be displayed as thick lines. • Show Small Slants as Flat Beams. When this is activated, beams that would be only slightly slanted are displayed flat. Without and with “Show Small Slants as Flat Beams” • Slanted Beams only Slightly Slanted. Activate this if you only want a slightly slanted beam even though there might be a significant pitch difference between the notes under the beam. Without and with “Slanted Beams only Slightly Slanted”
Additional note and rest formatting Handling beaming 1195 IMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANT These settings are global for all staves. Staff settings In the Score Settings dialog, on the Options tab of the Staff page, you can find a couple of settings for beams as well: Flat Beams Activate this when you do not want any slant at all, no matter the pitch difference of the notes under the beams. No Beams Activate this when you do not want any beams at all. Manual adjustment of beams For very detailed control you can manually adjust the beam slant: PROCEDURE 1. Group and flip notes and adjust the settings described above until the beams are as close as possible to how you want them. 2. Click on the corner made up by the beam and the stem. A handle appears on the corner of beam and stem. A beam handle 3. Drag the handle up or down. The slant of the beam changes. Dragging a handle and the effect it has. NOTE You can adjust the distance between notes and their beam without changing the beam slant. Select both handles of a beam (by pressing the [Shift] key while selecting the second handle) and drag one of the handles up or down.
Additional note and rest formatting About tied notes 1196 Mixed stem direction By dragging the beam handles you can put the beam between the note heads: Putting the beam between the notes About tied notes Sometimes, notes are displayed as two or more notes tied together. Generally, there are three different occasions when this happens: • When a note is of an “uneven” length that cannot be displayed without tying together two or more notes of different note values. • When a note crosses a bar line. • When a note crosses a “group line” within a bar. The last case requires some explanation: Cubase uses a “cutting mechanism” that automatically creates tied notes depending on the length and position of the notes. For example, a quarter note is cut in two and tied if it crosses a half note beat, and an eighth note is cut in two and tied if it crosses a quarter note beat: 1) This quarter note is cut. 2) This eighth note is cut. However, this is not always what you want. There are three ways to affect the cutting mechanism: Syncopation When the Syncopation option is activated on the Main tab of the Staff page in the Score Settings dialog, Cubase is less prone to cut and tie notes. For example, the second quarter note in the figure above would not have been cut if syncopation had been activated. The Syncopation setting affects the whole track, but you can also make syncopation settings for separate sections in the score, by inserting display quantize events. RELATED LINKS Inserting Display Quantize changes on page 1122
Additional note and rest formatting About tied notes 1197 Time signature changes By inserting time signature changes, you can change the way notes are cut. This is done in the same way as when you specify how beamed notes are grouped. With a regular 4/4 time signature With a composite time signature (3+2+3 eighth notes) RELATED LINKS Grouping on page 1204 The Cut Notes tool By using the Cut Notes tool, you can disable the automatic cutting mechanism in a bar, and insert manual cuts at any given position in the score. PROCEDURE 1. Select the Cut Notes tool. 2. Select a suitable quantize value from the “Quantize Presets” pop-up menu. As usual, this determines where you can click. 3. When you are using polyphonic voices, select the voice you want to make settings for. 4. Click in the bar containing the notes that you want to cut manually, at the position you want them cut. This inserts a cutflag event in the bar at the position you clicked. If you hold down [Alt]/[Option], a cutflag event is inserted for all voices in a polyphonic staff. A half note, placed at 2.1.3. This is by default cut at 2.3.1 (the middle of the bar). When you click at the position 2.2.1, a cutflag event is inserted. As a result, the regular cutting mechanism is disabled and the note is cut at the position you clicked instead. The following rules apply to cutflag events: • If a bar contains a cutflag event, the automatic cutting mechanism is disabled within that bar. • All notes or rests that start before and end after a cutflag event are cut at the position of the event. • To display cutflag events, make sure that “Cutflag” is activated on the filter bar. • To remove a cutflag event, either click again with the Cut Notes tool at the same position, or select it and press [Backspace] or [Delete].
Additional note and rest formatting Graphic moving of notes 1198 Other options for tied notes Tie direction You can set the direction of the tie manually in the Set Note Info dialog. RELATED LINKS Other note details on page 1183 Flat ties If you prefer ties to be displayed as flat lines, rather than regular “curved” ties, activate the “Flat Ties” option in the Score Settings dialog, on the Project–Notation Style subpage (H.W. Henze Style category). Graphic moving of notes There might be instances where the “graphical” order of the notes is not the one you want. In this case, you can move notes without affecting the score or playback in any way. This can be done with the Layout tool or using your computer keyboard. By using the Layout tool PROCEDURE 1. Select the Layout tool in the Score Editor toolbar. 2. Click again on the tool button to open the Mode pop-up menu and select the desired option. 3. Click on the note and drag it to the desired position. Note that movement is restricted to horizontally only. NOTE You can also automatically select all notes making up a chord, by holding down [Alt]/[Option] and clicking on one of the notes with the Layout tool. Modes for the Layout tool The following modes are available: Move Single Object In this mode, only the object you move with the Layout tool is affected (moved). Use this if you want to “correct” the position of one single note in the score, for example.
Additional note and rest formatting Cue notes 1199 Move Notes and Context In this mode, other score objects are moved accordingly when you move a note with the Layout tool. Use this mode if you want to correct the display of all score objects within a bar rather than modifying single note positions. By using the computer keyboard You can assign key commands for moving objects graphically. In the Key Commands dialog on the File menu, the commands are found under the Nudge category and called Graphical Left, Graphical Right, Graphical Bottom, and Graphical Top (only the Graphical Left and Graphical Right commands apply to notes). After assigning key commands, you select the notes that you want to move and press the assigned keys to adjust their graphical position. Cue notes You can create cue notes by using voices or by converting individual notes into cue notes. Setting a voice to display cue notes PROCEDURE 1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and select the Polyphonic tab. 2. Click in the “Cue” column for the voice, so that a checkmark appears. 3. Decide how to handle rests for the voice. You might for example leave “Rests–Show” activated and activate “Reduce”. If you do, you get rests in this voice, but not as many as otherwise. Empty bars, for example, do not have any rests at all. “Cue” activated for voice 3 4. Close the dialog. 5. Move the notes into the cue voice. An example of a cue note voice
Additional note and rest formatting Grace notes 1200 RELATED LINKS Setting up the voices on page 1165 Polyphonic voicing on page 1163 A quick example Let’s say you have a flute part and want some cue notes for it: PROCEDURE 1. Switch on polyphonic voices and activate voice 1 and voice 2. 2. Set voice 2 to “Auto” stem direction and centered rests. 3. Set up voice 1 to be a cue voice, with hidden rests and stems pointing up. 4. Insert the cue notes into voice 1. Turning individual notes into cue notes PROCEDURE 1. Select one or several notes. 2. Double-click one of the notes. The Set Note Info dialog appears. You can also click the “i” button on the extended toolbar, or right-click on a note head and select “Properties” from the context menu to open this dialog. 3. Select Cue from the Type pop-up menu. 4. Click Apply. The settings are applied to the selected notes. 5. Close the dialog. Grace notes You can turn any note into a grace note. Grace notes are considered to be notes without lengths. This means that once a note is turned into a grace note it does not affect the rest of the score display in any way.