Steinberg Cubase SX/SL 3 Score Layout And Printing Manual

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Creating a layout
Layouts are created automatically when you perform the following 
steps:
1.Open a new combination of tracks for editing.
Each track may have been edited before, individually or together with other tracks, it 
doesn’t matter. What matters is that you open precisely these tracks. For example, to 
create a layout for a string quartet, select parts on the corresponding tracks and press 
[Ctrl]/[Command]-[R].
❐The order of the tracks does not matter –...

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The Layout List
Selecting “Show List” from the Scores–Layout Settings submenu 
brings up the Layout List window. This lists all existing layouts in the 
project, with the current one selected. Here you can perform a num-
ber of operations:
Opening the tracks in a layout
To select another combination of tracks for editing, select the corre-
sponding layout in the list and click Show.
•You can keep the Layout List window open while you are editing, and 
use this...

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Managing layouts
•To rename a layout, double click its name in the list and type a new 
one.
Initially, a layout gets the name of one of the edited tracks – it may be a good idea to 
give each layout a more informative name. You can also rename the current layout in 
the Layout Settings dialog (Scores–Layout Settings–Setup).
•To remove a layout you no longer need, select it and click Remove.
•To remove all layouts for which there no longer are track combinations,...

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Marker Track to Form
If you have created markers in the project window, so that each marker 
denotes the start of a new “section” in your music (verse, bridge, cho-
rus, etc.), you can automatically transfer these markers to the current 
layout:
1.Pull down the Scores menu and open the Layout Functions submenu.
2.Select “Marker Track to Form”.
Now, rehearsal markers and double barlines are inserted in the score, at the position of 
each marker.
3.If you want the...

12
Designing your score –
additional techniques 

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In this chapter you will learn:
• How to change the staff size.
• How to create multi rests.
• How to add and edit bar lines.
• How to create upbeats.
• How to set measure spacing and the number of bars across the page.
• How to control staff and grand staff spacing.
• How to use the Auto Layout functions.
• How to use the Clean Up Layout function.
• How to break bar lines.
❐Before you start designing the score page layout, you should open...

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The track list
The display to the left lists the tracks included in the layout and allows 
you to make the following settings for each track:
Multi-Rests
Whenever more than one-bar rests occur, the program can replace 
these with a multi-rest symbol. The parameter allows you to set how 
many empty bars should be “allowed” before Cubase SX should col-
lect them into a multi rest. “Off” means “never”. See page 253 for more 
info on multi...

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Staff Separators
When this option is turned on, separator symbols are inserted at the 
beginning of each grand staff.
A staff separator between two systems.
Modern Time Signature
When this is activated, time signatures are shown above the staves 
rather than in them. You can set the size of the modern time signature 
in the Notation Style dialog on the Global Settings submenu (Switches 
tab). Also note that when modern time signature is...

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Staff size
For one staff
You can set the staff size as a percentage of normal size.
1.Open the Staff Settings dialog for the staff you are interested in.
2.Select the Options tab.
3.Adjust the Size parameter in the System Sizes section.
The values range from 25% up to 250% of normal size.
4.Click Apply.
For all tracks in a layout
1.Open the Layout Settings dialog.
2.Change the Size parameter.
The values range from 25% up to 250% of normal...

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Hiding/showing items
“Any” object on a page can be hidden, including notes, rests, symbols, 
clefs, bar lines, even entire staves. You can make a page totally blank 
by hiding (well, actually, one staff has to remain shown). Applications 
are found below.
Hiding
To hide items proceed as follows:
1.Select all the items you want to hide.
2.Select Hide from the Staff Functions submenu or click on the “H” (Hide) 
button on the extended toolbar....