Steinberg Cubase SX/SL 3 Score Layout And Printing Manual

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Grace notes and beaming
• If two grace notes are at exactly the same position (the same tick), they will be 
put onto the same stem, as a chord.
• If multiple grace notes in front of the same note are put on different positions 
(even if they are only one tick apart), they will be grouped under a beam.
• Please note that it is possible to have beamed grace notes overlapping a 
beam of regular notes, as in the example below:
Grace notes in the middle of...

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Converting grace notes to normal notes
1.Select the notes you want to convert.
If you want to make sure that all notes in the score are normal notes, you can select all 
notes (using the Select All command on the Edit menu).
2.Double click on one of the selected grace notes.
The Set Note Info dialog appears.
3.Select “Normal” from the “Type” pop-up.
4.Click Apply.
Tuplets
The regular display quantize values do not apply to any other divisions 
than...

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3.Select “Build N-Tuplet” from the Staff Functions submenu on the 
Scores menu.
The Tuplets dialog appears.
4.Set the type of tuplet in the Type field.
“5” means a quintuplet, “7” means a septuplet etc.
5.Set the length of the entire tuplet using the “Over” field.
6.Activate Change Length, if you need it.
If you do, the program will alter the length of all notes so that they are exactly the note 
value the tuplet indicates. If you don’t, the lengths of...

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Without permanent change to MIDI data
1.Select the notes in the tuplet group.
In this case, the notes play back correctly but aren’t displayed as a tuplet (yet).
2.Select “Build N-Tuplet” from the Staff Functions submenu on the 
Scores menu to bring up the Tuplets dialog.
3.Make settings in the dialog, as described above.
4.Click Quantize.
Now the tuplet is displayed correctly. You can make additional settings for how the 
tuplet should appear, as...

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Tuplet display options
The Switches tab in the Notation Style dialog on the Scores–Global 
Settings menu contains the following settings for tuplets:
Option Description
Display Tuplets without 
Brackets
and 
Always Show Tuplet 
BracketsThese two options are mutually exclusive – turn one on and 
the other is turned off. When “Display Tuplets without 
Brackets” is activated, tuplets never have brackets. When 
the other option is active, tuplets always...

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8
Working with symbols 

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In this chapter you will learn:
• What the different types of symbols are.
• How to insert and edit symbols.
• Details about special symbols.
Background: The different layers
A score page is always made up of three layers – the note layer, the lay-
out layer and the global layer. When you add symbols, these will be in-
serted into one of these layers, depending on the type of symbol. Those 
symbols that have a general relation to notes – accents, dynamic mark-
ings,...

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• All other note layer symbols (tempo, dynamics, chords etc.). These have their 
position related to the bar. No matter what you do to notes, they remain unaf-
fected. However, their positions are tied to their position within a measure. If you 
for example change the spacing of the bars across the page (see page 259) 
this will affect the symbols’ positions.
Layout layer symbols
Now let’s examine the layout layer symbols. As described above, there 
is a certain...

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Global layer symbols
The global layer symbols are layout symbols that are present in all lay-
outs. The global layer holds the symbols found in the Global Symbols 
palette, but also barline types and bar number offsets.
Using global layer symbols in conjunction with the Play Order mode, 
you can have playback in the program follow the score – repeats, da 
Capos and endings will be played back properly allowing you to hear 
your compositions as they would be played...