Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 Operation Manual Studio Manual

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Working with text
Text functions
The Words tab
If you have certain words that you use a lot, you can “store” 
these as dedicated symbols on the Words tab. This will 
save time, since you don’t have to type the same word over 
and over again.
Storing a word
1.Open the Words symbol tab.
This tab is hidden by default. See “Showing/Hiding symbol Inspector 
tabs” on page 563 for information on how to display hidden Inspector 
tabs.
2.Double-click on an “empty” symbol.
The Custom Text Editor dialog...

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Working with text
Staff names
You can make settings for staff names in several places:
On the Score Settings–Layout page, you specify wheth-
er the staff names should be shown at all, and whether to 
use the names of the actual edited tracks in the score.
In a multi-track layout, you can choose for which tracks the staff names 
should be shown, by clicking in the “N” column for each track.
You specify a long and short staff name on the Score 
Settings–Staff page (Main tab).
These will be used if you...

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Offsetting bar numbers
If you double-click on a bar number, a dialog appears, al-
lowing you to skip a number of bars in the otherwise con-
tinuous bar numbering.
This is used for example when a section repeats. Say, you 
have a repeat of bar 7 and 8, and want the first bar after 
the repeat to have the number 11, not 9. To achieve this, 
you double-click on the “9” and insert an offset of “2”.
It is also useful if the score starts with an upbeat, and you 
want the first “real” bar...

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Working with layouts 

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Working with layouts
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
 What layouts are and what they contain.
 How to create layouts.
 How to use layouts for opening combinations of tracks.
 How to apply, load, save and delete layouts.
 How to import and export layouts.
 An example of how layouts can be used.
Background: Layouts
Layouts can be viewed as “presets” containing settings for 
the layout layer: staff spacing, bar lines, layout symbols etc.
When to use layouts
 You will need to format...

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Here you can perform a number of operations:
Opening the tracks in a layout
To select another combination of tracks for editing, select 
the corresponding layout in the list.
You can keep the dialog open while you are editing, and 
use this function for selecting which tracks to edit.
Importing layout symbols
By selecting another layout and selecting “Get Form” from 
the Functions pop-up menu below the list, you import all 
Layout symbols (inserted from the Layout symbol...

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You can also import all layout symbols from the “Full 
Score” layout, by opening the Score Settings–Layout 
page, selecting the “Full Score” layout in the list to the left 
and selecting “Get Form” from the Functions pop-up 
menu (see “Importing layout symbols” on page 601).
6.Enter the desired name for the new layout in the Name 
field on the Score Settings–Layout page and click “Apply”.
Marker Track to Form
If you have created markers in the Project window which 
denote the...

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Working with MusicXML 

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Working with MusicXML
Introduction
MusicXML is a music notation format developed by Recor-
dare LLC in 2000 based primarily on two academic music 
formats. It allows the representation of scores in the cur-
rent symbolic representation of western music notation, 
used since the 17th century. With Cubase you can now 
import and export MusicXML files created with version 
1.1. This makes it possible to share and exchange sheet 
music with people who are using score writing programs 
such as Finale and...

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Importing and exporting MusicXML 
files
Cubase can import and export MusicXML Files, which 
makes it possible to transfer musical scores to and from 
applications that support this file format. However, there 
are some restrictions concerning the parameters sup-
ported by Cubase:
Importing MusicXML files
1.Pull down the File menu and open the Import submenu.
2.On the submenu, select “Music XML…”.
3.In the file dialog that opens, locate and select the Mu-
sicXML file and click...