Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 Operation Manual Studio Manual

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Working with symbols The “Line/Trill” palette. Note that the arpeggios, hand indication and 
strum symbols are all “note-dependent”!
The “Other” palette.
The “Layout” palette. All these symbols are drawn in their own “layer”.The “Project” palette. These symbols will be present in all layouts.
The “Words” palette. This is described in the section “The Words tab” 
on page 596.
The “User Symbols” palette. This is described in the section “User 
Symbols” on page 583.
Further details about many of the...

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To remove a symbol from the Favourites tab, select “Re-
move from Favourites” from the context menu or hold 
down [Alt]/[Option] and click on it.
Important! – Symbols, staves and 
voices
Most symbols belong to a staff when inserted. Only note 
symbols, slurs and ties are an exception. They belong to 
notes and therefore to voices. 
It is extremely important that the correct staff is active 
when you insert a symbol (if you are editing multiple 
staves, of course).
If you for...

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3.Either click on the note or above or below it.
If you click on the note, the symbol is put in at a predefined distance from 
the note. If you instead click “above or below” the note, you decide for a 
vertical position yourself. In either case, the symbol is aligned horizontally 
with the note. It can later be moved up/down.
Clicking on a note inserts the note symbol (in this case a tenuto) at a 
predefined distance from the note head.
There are three options in the Accents...

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Adding slurs and ties
Slurs can be drawn in manually or inserted automatically 
for a group of notes. Ties are usually added by the pro-
gram but can also be drawn in as “graphic” symbols.
ÖThere are two types of slurs – “regular” slurs and Bez-
ier slurs (with which you have full control over thickness, 
curve shape, etc.).
Slurs, ties and the display quantize value
Since a slur or tie “musically” always spans from one note 
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To change the shape of the slur, click on one of the mid-
dle curve points and drag in any direction.
Right-clicking on a curve point brings up a context menu 
with the following options:
Creating trills
If you have recorded or entered a trill, Cubase can help 
you display this properly:
1.Select the notes that make up the trill.
2.Right-click on one of the notes and select “Build 
Trill…” from the context menu.
3.Select an option from the dialog that appears.
The radio buttons...

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If you right-click on an inserted keyboard symbol and 
select “Properties” from the context menu, a dialog opens 
allowing you to specify further properties for the symbol.
You can also double-click on an inserted keyboard symbol to open this 
dialog.
Adding guitar chord symbols
A fretboard symbol of a guitar chord can be inserted any-
where in the score. 
Guitar symbols are found on the “Guitar Symbols” tab and 
the “Other” tab in the symbol Inspector.
The Guitar Symbols tab...

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You can edit the symbol at any time by double-clicking it, 
changing the settings in the dialog and clicking Apply. 
Note that you can also access the symbols you have de-
fined in the guitar library by right-clicking a guitar symbol – 
see below.
ÖIf you select “Make Chord Symbol” from the context 
menu, the corresponding chord symbol will be displayed 
above the guitar symbol. This function is very useful when 
writing lead sheets, for example.
Using the guitar library
The...

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Using layout symbols
Symbols inserted from the “Layout” tab belong to the lay-
out layer. When you are editing a layout containing several 
tracks, you can have inserted layout symbols automatically 
copied to any combination of tracks in the layout. You de-
cide which staves should display layout symbols by ticking 
their “L” column in the Score Settings–Layout page 
(opened by selecting “Settings…” on the Scores menu).
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2.Assign each event type to a layer (1, 2 or 3).
It is a good idea to assign event types that might “conflict graphically” to 
different layers. For example, you might want to assign bar numbers and 
note symbols to different layers, if you find that you accidentally move bar 
numbers when editing note symbols and vice versa.
3.Click OK to close the dialog.
Alternatively, you can right-click on one of the Layer but-
tons (1-2-3) on the extended toolbar to bring up a pop-up 
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The rulers 
Unlike other editors, the Score Editor does not have a 
meter/time position-based ruler. Instead, its rulers are 
“graphical”, i.e. they indicate the actual x-y position of ob-
jects (with “zero” at the upper left corner).
The current pointer position is indicated by thin lines in 
the rulers.
To hide the rulers, pull down the pop-up menu above 
the scroll bar to the right and select “Off”.
This pop-up menu can also be shown by right-clicking in the ruler.
To display...