Steinberg Cubase SE 3 Getting Started Manual

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Drawing events in the Key Editor
When you move the pointer in the note display, its bar position is indi-
cated in the toolbar, and its pitch is indicated both in the toolbar and 
on the piano keyboard to the left. This makes it easy to find the right 
note and insert position.
To insert new notes in the Key Editor, proceed as follows:
1.Select the Pencil tool.
2.Click at the desired time position and pitch (height).
A note is inserted with the following...

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About Snap
Snap activated on the toolbar.
The Snap function helps you find exact positions when editing in the 
Key Editor. It does this by restricting horizontal movement and position-
ing to certain positions. Operations affected by snap include moving, 
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.
•When any time-based display format is selected...

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About quantize
Quantizing in its fundamental form is a function that automatically 
moves recorded notes, positioning them on exact note values.
• Normally, quantizing affects MIDI notes only (not other event types).
However, you can choose to move the controllers together with their respective notes 
by activating the “Move Controller” option in the Quantize Setup dialog. This dialog is 
described in detail in the Operation Manual.
• In the Project window,...

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2.Open the quantize pop-up menu on the toolbar.
The menu contains three main categories of note values, Straight, Triplet and Dotted.
3.For this example, select straight 1/8 Note quantize from the menu.
4.Select “Over Quantize” from the MIDI menu.
This quantizes the MIDI notes according to the Quantize pop-up menu setting.
Straight note values
Triplet note values
Dotted note values    

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Editing velocity in the controller display
The Key Editor controller display is used for viewing and editing vari-
ous values and events. The controller display can have one or several 
lanes, each showing a separate event type.
•If no controller display is shown, right-click (Win) or [Ctrl]-click (Mac) 
anywhere in the editor window and select “Create New Controller Lane” 
from the pop-up menu that appears.
This displays the controller display at the bottom of...

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An example
In the following example we will create a velocity ramp using the Line 
tool:
1.Add some notes in the note display by using the Pencil tool.
2.Select the Line tool from the pop-up menu that appears by clicking on 
the Line tool icon.
The other tools available on this pop-up menu are described in the Operation Manual.
3.Click where you want the ramp to start, move the pointer to where you 
want the ramp to end and release the mouse button.
When the...

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Tutorial 8: Customizing 

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About this tutorial
This chapter describes how you can set up and customize Cubase SE 
in various ways according to your personal preferences.
Most parts of Cubase SE can be customized to your liking: key com-
mands can be freely changed and assigned to functions, the general 
look of the program can be changed, items can be hidden in the tool-
bars, and the Transport panel, etc.
This tutorial deals with adapting your work environment to what you 
need to do and...

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Setting preferences
Most of the settings for making the program behave the way you want 
are found in the Preferences dialog:
1.Pull down the File menu (or, if you are using Mac OS X, the Cubase 
SE menu) and select Preferences.
The Preferences dialog appears. This is divided into a number of pages you can select 
in the list to the left.
2.Select the “Editing” item in the list to the left.
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Now, let’s activate another useful option. If you are usually working on 
single projects for long periods of time (i.e. more than one “session” 
with the program), you might want to have that project automatically 
open when you launch Cubase SE:
4.In the list to the left in the dialog, select “General”.
The General settings page is displayed to the right. Among other things, it contains the 
“On Startup” pop-up menu, which allows you to specify what should...