Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual
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Designing your score: additional techniques
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Designing your score: additional techniques
Hiding/showing objects
1284
Hiding in the current layout only
If you want the hiding to be “local” to the current layout, hold down
[Ctrl]/[Command] when selecting “Hide/Show” as described above.
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This is not possible when hiding notes, only other symbols.
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Designing your score: additional techniques Layout settings 1281 Equal Spacing Activate this option when you want a note to take up space according to its note value. When Equal Spacing is activated, two sixteenth notes take up as much space as one eighth note, for example. Size Changes the size of all staves. RELATED LINKS Staff size on page 1282 Multi-Rests Whenever more than one-bar rests occur, the program can replace these with a multi-rest symbol. This parameter allows you to set how many empty bars are “allowed” before Cubase collects them into a multi-rest. “Off” means “never”. RELATED LINKS Multiple rests on page 1285 Real Book When this option is activated, clef symbols are not set out at the beginning of each staff, only on the first staff on each page. Staff Separators When this option is activated, separator symbols are inserted at the beginning of each grand staff. A staff separator between two systems Modern Time Signature When this is activated, time signatures are shown above the staves rather than in them. You can set the size of the modern time signature in the Time Sign section on the Project–Notation Style subpage of the Score Settings dialog. When modern time signature is selected, you use the “T” column in the track list in the Layout page to specify for which tracks time signatures are displayed.
Designing your score: additional techniques Staff size 1282 • If you prefer to display the score in a more modern way, check out the other options on the Notation Style subpage. For descriptions of the options use the Help button in the dialog. Staff size You can set the staff size as a percentage value of the normal size. For one staff To set the staff size for one staff, proceed as follows: PROCEDURE 1. Make sure that the staff you want to edit is active. 2. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and select the Options tab. 3. Adjust the Size parameter in the System Sizes section. The values range from 25 % up to 250 % of the normal size. 4. Click Apply. For all tracks in a layout To set the staff size for all tracks in a layout, proceed as follows: PROCEDURE 1. Open the Score Settings and select the Layout page. 2. Change the Size parameter. The values range from 25 % up to 250 % of the normal size. 3. Click Apply. RESULT All staves now get the desired size. Staves that have individual size settings (see above) still are proportionally smaller/larger. This setting is part of the layout and can be used when printing a full score slightly smaller than the parts for each instrument, for example.
Designing your score: additional techniques Hiding/showing objects 1283 Hiding/showing objects Any object on a page can be hidden, including notes, rests, symbols, clefs, bar lines, even entire staves. This can be useful in the following situations: Printing scales If you want to create scale examples, enter the notes and hide time signatures, bar lines and other unwanted objects. A scale created with hidden bar lines, time signatures, etc. Graphic notation By hiding bar lines, you can produce graphic notation. Hiding notes meant for playback only If you have recorded your music, you may have added glissandos, falls, etc. that sound fine but result in a lot of unnecessary notes. You probably want to hide those notes and insert the suitable symbols instead. Hiding To hide items, proceed as follows: PROCEDURE 1. Select all the items you want to hide. 2. Select “Hide/Show” from the Score menu or click on the “H” (Hide) button on the extended toolbar. Notes can also be hidden by selecting them, clicking the “i” button on the extended toolbar and ticking the Hide Note checkbox in the Set Note Info dialog IMPORTANT If the Hide option in the filter bar is activated, hidden objects are shown in gray so that they are still visible and you can select them. RELATED LINKS Other note details on page 1183
Designing your score: additional techniques Hiding/showing objects 1284 Hiding in the current layout only If you want the hiding to be “local” to the current layout, hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] when selecting “Hide/Show” as described above. IMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANT This is not possible when hiding notes, only other symbols. NOTE You can also move hidden objects to the layout by right-clicking the
Designing your score: additional techniques Coloring notes 1285 Showing a hidden note While all hidden notes can be made visible by ticking the Hidden Notes checkbox on the filter bar, you may want to make some of them “permanently” visible again: PROCEDURE 1. Activate the Hidden Notes checkbox on the filter bar. 2. Select the notes that you want to “un-hide”. In the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for Additional Meanings) you can set the color for hidden notes. 3. Double-click one of the notes. 4. Deactivate the Hide Note option in the Set Note Info dialog and click Apply. Coloring notes You can use the color pop-up menu on the toolbar to colorize selected notes, e. g. for educational purposes. RELATED LINKS Coloring notes on page 1186 Multiple rests Multiple consecutive rests can be automatically displayed as multi-rests. A multi-rest over three bars PROCEDURE 1. Open the Score Settings and select the Layout page. 2. Set the Multi-Rests option to the number of empty bars that are “allowed” before Cubase displays them as a multi-rest. For example, a value of 2 means that three or more consecutive empty bars are displayed as a multi-rest. If you set this to “Off”, multi-rests are not used. 3. Click Apply and close the dialog. RESULT The multi-rests now appear in the score.
Designing your score: additional techniques Multiple rests 1286 Splitting multi-rests To divide one long multiple rest into several shorter ones, proceed as follows: PROCEDURE 1. Double-click on the multi-rest symbol. The Split Multi-Rest dialog appears: 2. In the dialog, enter the bar number where you want the first split. 3. Click OK. If you need more splits, double-click on any multi-rest symbol and proceed as above. IMPORTANT The program automatically splits multi-rests at time signature changes, double bar lines, repeat signs and rehearsal marks. Multi-rest appearance The Project page in the Score Settings dialog contains several subpages, on which you can make settings for multi-rests: • The subpage “Notation Style” contains the following settings concerning multi-rests: Multi-Rests – Church Style When this is activated, multi-rests are shown in “church style” (vertical bars), rather than with the regular, horizontal symbols. Multi-Rests – Numbers above Symbol When this is activated, the numbers are shown above the multi-rest symbol, instead of below it. Multi-Rests – Snap Rests moved with the Layout tool When this is activated, rests automatically snap to “intelligent” positions in the score (i. e. positions used in regular notation) when moved with the layout tool. If this is deactivated, rests can be positioned freely. Bar numbers – Show Range with Multi-Rests When this is activated, and bar numbers are displayed, the bar numbers of a multi-rest are shown as a range. • On the Spacings subpage of the dialog, you can adjust the height and width of multi-rest symbols.
Designing your score: additional techniques Editing existing bar lines 1287 • On the Font Settings subpage, you can select a font for the multi-rest numbers (select “Multi-Rests” in the “Font For” pop-up menu and make the desired settings). Editing existing bar lines For each bar line, you can choose whether you want a regular, single bar line, a double bar line, a repeat sign, etc.: PROCEDURE 1. Double-click on the bar line for which you want to edit the settings. A dialog appears with a number of bar line types. 2. If you want the bar line to be shown with “brackets”, activate the Brackets checkbox. This is only relevant for repeat signs. 3. Click on the desired bar line type. The dialog closes and the bar line type is changed. 4. If you do not want to display bar lines at the beginning of the parts, open the Score Settings dialog on the Project–Notation Style subpage (Bar Lines category) and activate the “Hide First Bar line in Parts” option. NOTE The bar line types are part of the Project layer – any changes you make are reflected in all layouts. Creating upbeats The following methods describe how you can create upbeats in the Score.
Designing your score: additional techniques Creating upbeats 1288 By using the Pickup Bar feature With this method, the upbeat actually contains exactly the number of beats displayed. That is, if you have an upbeat of one beat, your project starts with one bar in 1/4 time. PROCEDURE 1. Change the time signature of the first bar to the length of the upbeat. 2. Insert a time signature of the correct kind (the time signature used throughout the project) in the second bar. To insert a time signature, select it in the “Time Signature” section in the Symbols Inspector and click in the Score with the Draw tool. 3. Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar. The first bar before making any adjustments 4. Double-click the time signature for the upbeat bar. The Edit Time Signature dialog appears. 5. Activate the “Pickup Bar” option and click OK. Now, the time signature of the first bar takes on the look of the second bar’s signature, while the time signature in the second bar is hidden. 6. If you use bar numbers, double-click on the first bar number and enter an offset of -1. 7. Adjust the display of bar numbers and hide the “0” in the first measure.
Designing your score: additional techniques Setting the number of bars across the page 1289 By hiding rests With this method, the first bar actually gets the same time signature as the following bars – it only looks like an upbeat bar: PROCEDURE 1. Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar. The first bar before making any adjustments 2. Hide the rests that precede the notes. 3. Drag the bar line between measure one and two to adjust the width of the bar. After hiding the rest and dragging the bar line 4. If you like, move the notes in the upbeat measure, using the Layout tool. 5. If you use bar numbers, adjust them as described in the previous example. The final upbeat Setting the number of bars across the page You can specify how many bars you want to display across the page. Automatically • When you open a new combination of tracks for editing, the number of bars across the page is determined by the “Default Number of Bars per Staff” setting in the Preferences dialog (Scores–Editing page). • In the Auto Layout dialog, you can set the maximum number of bars across the staff. RELATED LINKS Auto Layout on page 1297
Designing your score: additional techniques Setting the number of bars across the page 1290 Manually In Page Mode, you have full control over the number of bars appearing across the page, by using the Number of Bars dialog or the tools. NOTE If you want to use the “Max. number of Bars” option in the Auto Layout dialog, you should do this before you adjust the number of bars manually. RELATED LINKS Auto Layout on page 1297 Using the Number of Bars dialog PROCEDURE 1. Make a staff active in the system where you want to make changes. This means that if everything looks fine until for example the fifth system, activate one of the staves in this system. 2. Open the Scores menu and select “Number Of Bars” from the Advanced Layout submenu. The Number of Bars dialog opens. 3. Set the desired number of bars across the page. • To change the number of bars for the active staff only, click “This Staff”. • To change the number of bars for the active staff and all following staves, click “All Staves”. In other words, to set all systems on all pages to the same number of bars, make the very first staff active and use the All Staves option. Using the tools • To make a bar “fall down” on a new staff, use the Split tool to click on its bar line. Before and after moving the third bar one staff down