Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 Operation Manual Studio Manual

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Designing your score: additional techniques
Moving one staff only
You may wish to move one staff without affecting any 
other staff in any way:
1.Hold down [Ctrl]/[Command].
2.Drag any staff as described above.
Moving staves between pages
By using the “Move to Next/Previous Page” commands on 
the Staff context menu, you can quickly edit the page 
breaks:
Moving staves to the next page
1.Locate the staff you want to move to the top of the next 
page, and make it the active staff.
This can be any staff...

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Designing your score: additional techniques
Auto Layout
This item on the Scores menu brings up a dialog with sev-
eral options. Activating one of these makes the program 
“walk through” the score and make adjustments to mea-
sure widths, staff distances etc. automatically. Exactly 
which parts and properties of the score are affected de-
pends on which option you activate/deactivate.
ÖYou can also open the Auto Layout dialog by clicking 
the Auto Layout button on the extended toolbar.
Move bars
This...

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Optimize All
All of the above in one fell swoop. This procedure might 
take some time but usually yields great results.
Other functions
In the lower part of the dialog, the following options are 
available:
ÖThe functions “Move Bars” and “Move All Bars” 
(“Move Bars” + “All Pages”) can also be accessed via the 
Staff context menu (opened by right-clicking on the blue 
rectangle to the left of the active staff).
Reset Layout
This function allows you to...

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Designing your score: additional techniques
Breaking bar lines
Sometimes you may not want a bar line to stretch all the 
way across a grand staff. If this is the case, you have the 
possibility to “break it”.
Manually
Breaking bar lines in one grand staff
1.Select the Erase tool.
2.Click on a bar line connecting the two staves.
All bar lines between these two staves (except the first and last) are bro-
ken. To break the first or last bar line in a grand staff, you need to click di-
rectly on these....

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Scoring for drums 

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Scoring for drums
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
 How to set up the drum map.
 How to set up a staff for drum notes.
 How to enter and edit drum notes.
 How to use a single line drum staff.
Background: Drum maps in the 
Score Editor
When scoring for drums, you can assign a unique note 
head to each pitch. There is even the possibility to set up 
different note heads for different note values!
However, to be able to fully use this function, you need to 
understand a bit about drum...

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The dialog contains the following options:
Initializing the display pitches
If you select “Init. Disp. Notes” from the Functions pop-up 
menu in the dialog, all display pitch values are reset, so 
that actual pitch and display pitch is the same for each 
sound/note.
Using note head pairs
Not only can you have different drum sounds displayed 
with different note heads, you can also display different 
note heads for different note values:
1.Activate the “Use Head pairs” checkbox.
The...

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Scoring for drums
Setting up a staff for drum scoring
1.Open the Score Settings–Staff page and select the 
Options tab.
2.Make sure “Use Score Drum Map” is activated.
3.If you want a single line drum staff, activate the corre-
sponding option (see “Using “Single Line Drum Staff”” on 
page 623).
4.If you want flat beams, activate the corresponding op-
tion (see “Handling beaming” on page 552).
5.If you want all stems to end at the same position, acti-
vate Fixed Stems and set a length for up/down...

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Creating tablature 

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Creating tablature
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
 How to create tablature, automatically and manually.
 How to control the appearance of the tablature notes.
 How to edit tablature.
Cubase is able to produce score in tablature format. This 
can be done automatically, by “converting” recorded MIDI 
information. You can also create a tablature staff from 
scratch and enter the notes “by hand”.
Creating tablature automatically
This assumes you have a regular score on screen already....