Steinberg Cubase SX/SL 3 Score Layout And Printing Manual

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Beam appearance and slant settings
Global settings
The Notation Style dialog on the Scores–Global Settings menu has a 
tab called Beams and Bars. There you will find three options for how 
beams should appear:
•Thick Beams.
Activate this if you want beams to be displayed as thick lines.
•Show Small Slants as Flat Beams.
When this is activated, beams that would be only slightly slanted will be displayed flat.
Without and with “Show Small Slants as Flat...

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Staff settings
On the Options tab of the Staff Settings dialog, you will find a couple 
of settings for beams as well. 
Manual adjustment of beams
For very detailed control you can manually adjust the beam slant:
1.Group and flip notes and adjust the settings described above until the 
beams are as close as possible to how you want them.
2.Click on the corner made up by the beam and the stem.
A handle appears on the corner of beam and stem.
A beam...

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Mixed staff direction
By dragging the beam handles you can put the beam between the 
note heads:
Putting the beam between the notes. 

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About tied notes
Sometimes, notes will be displayed as two or more notes tied together. 
Generally, there are three different occasions when this will happen:
• When a note is of an “uneven” length, that cannot be displayed without tying 
together two or more notes of different note values.
• When a note crosses a bar line.
• When a note crosses a “group line” within a bar.
The last case requires some explanation: Cubase SX uses a “cutting 
mechanism”...

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Time signature changes
By inserting time signature changes, you can change the way notes 
are cut. This is done in the same way as when you specify how 
beamed notes should be grouped – see page 134.
The Cut Notes tool
By using the Cut Notes tool, you can disable the automatic cutting 
mechanism in a bar, and insert manual cuts at any given position in the 
score:
1.Select the Cut Notes tool.
2.Set the Quantize pop-up menu to an appropriate value.
As...

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3.Click in the bar containing the note(s) you want to cut manually, at the 
position you want them cut.
This inserts a cutflag event in the bar at the position you clicked. If you hold down [Alt]/
[Option], a cutflag event is inserted for all voices in a polyphonic staff.
The following rules apply to cutflag events:
• If a bar contains a cutflag event, the automatic cutting mechanism is disabled 
within that bar.
• All notes or rests that start before...

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Graphic moving of notes
There might be instances where the “graphical” order of the notes isn’t 
the one you want. In this case you can move the note without affecting 
the score or playback in any way. There are two ways to do this:
By using the Graphic Move tool
1.Select the Graphic Move tool.
2.Click on the note and drag it right or left.
Movement is restricted to horizontally only.
Before and after changing the “graphical order” of notes.
By using...

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Cue notes
You can create cue notes by using voices or by converting individual 
notes into cue notes.
Setting a voice to display cue notes
1.Open the Staff Settings dialog and select the Polyphonic tab.
This is described on page 105.
2.Click in the “Cue” column for the voice, so that a tick mark appears.
3.Decide for a rest handling for the voice.
You might for example leave “Rests–Show” activated and activate “Reduce”. If you do, 
you will get rests...

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A quick example
Let’s say you have a flute part and want some cue notes for it.
1.Switch on polyphonic voices and activate voice 1 and 2.
2.Set voice 2 to “Auto” stem direction and centered rests.
3.Set up voice 1 to be a cue voice, with hidden rests and stems pointing 
up.
4.Insert the cue notes into voice 1.
Turning individual notes into cue notes
1.Select one or several notes.
2.Double click one of the notes or click the “i” icon on the extended...

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Grace notes
You can turn any note into a grace note. Grace notes are considered 
to be notes without lengths. This means that once a note is turned into 
a grace note it doesn’t affect the rest of the score display in any way.
Before and after converting to grace notes. Note that after the conversion, the 
grace notes no longer “interfere” with the interpretation of the other notes.
❐Grace notes are always automatically positioned just before the next...