Steinberg Cubase LE Operation Manual

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Flip Stems
Normally the direction of the note stems is automatically selected ac-
cording to the note pitches, but you can change this manually if you like:
1.Select the notes for which you want to change (flip) the stem direc-
tion.
2.Pull down the MIDI menu and select Flip Stems from the Scores sub-
menu.
Working with text
You can use the Text tool to add comments, articulation or instrumen-
tation advice and other text strings anywhere in the score:
Adding a text...

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Changing the text font, size and style
To change the font settings for the text you have added, proceed as 
follows:
1.Select the text block by clicking it with the Arrow tool.
2.Pull down the MIDI menu and select “Font Settings…” from the Scores 
submenu.
A Font Settings dialog appears, containing the following settings:
3.When you’ve made your settings, click Apply.
If you like, you can leave the Font Settings dialog open, select another text block and 
adjust the...

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Printing
To print your score, proceed as follows:
1.Open the parts you want to print in the Score Editor.
Printing is only available from within the Score Editor.
2.Select Page Setup from the File menu and make sure all your Printer 
settings are correct.
This includes paper size and margins.
3.Close the Page Setup dialog and select Print from the File menu.
4.The standard Print dialog appears. Fill out the options as desired.
5.Click Print. 

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Common MIDI editor options and settings
Snap
Snap activated on the toolbar.
The Snap function helps you to find exact positions when editing in a 
MIDI editor. It does this by restricting horizontal movement and posi-
tioning to certain positions. Operations affected by Snap include mov-
ing, duplicating, drawing, sizing, etc.
• When the “Bars+Beats” display format is selected in the ruler, the Quantize 
value on the toolbar determines the Snap value.
This makes it...

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Working with drum maps
Background
A drum kit in a MIDI instrument is most often a set of different drum 
sounds with each sound placed on a separate key (i.e. the different 
sounds are assigned to different MIDI note numbers). One key plays a 
bass drum sound, another a snare and so on.
Unfortunately, different MIDI instruments often use different key as-
signments. This can be troublesome if you have made a drum pattern 
using one MIDI device, and then want to try it...

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Drum map settings
A drum map consists of settings for 128 drum sounds (one for each 
MIDI note number). To get an overview of these settings, open the 
Drum Map Setup dialog and select “GM Map” from the Drum Maps 
list on the left.
Now, take a look at the drum sound list. The columns show the settings 
of the drum map for each sound.
Here’s a brief description (details follow below):
Column Description
Pitch The actual note number of the drum sound. This is what links...

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About Pitch, I-note and O-note
This can be a somewhat confusing area, but once you’ve grasped 
how it all works it’s not very complicated. Going through the following 
“theory” will help you make the most out of the drum map concept – 
especially if you want to create your own drum maps.
As we said earlier, a drum map is a kind of “filter”, transforming notes 
according to the settings in the map. It does this transformation twice; 
once when it receives an incoming...

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O-notes
The next step is the output. This is what happens when you play back 
the recorded note, or when the note you play is sent back out to a 
MIDI instrument in real time (MIDI Thru):
The program checks the drum map and finds the drum sound with the 
Pitch of the note. In our case, this is a C1 note and the drum sound is 
the Bass Drum. Before the note is sent to the MIDI output, the second 
transformation takes place: the note number is changed to that of the...

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The channel and output settings
You can set separate MIDI channels and/or MIDI outputs for each 
sound in a drum map. The following rules apply:
• When a drum map is selected for a track, the MIDI channel settings in the 
drum map override the MIDI channel setting for the track.
In other words, the MIDI channel setting you make in the Track list or Inspector for the 
track is normally disregarded. If you want a drum sound to use the channel of the track, 
set it to...

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The Drum Map Setup dialog
To set up and manage your drum maps, select “Drum Map Setup” from 
the Map pop-up menus or the MIDI menu. This opens the following 
dialog:
This is where you load, create, modify and save drum maps. The list to 
the left shows the currently loaded drum maps; selecting a drum map 
in the list displays its sounds and settings to the right.
You can click the leftmost column to audition a drum sound. Note: if 
you audition a sound in the Drummap...