Steinberg Cubase SX/SL 3 Score Layout And Printing Manual

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•If you activate the “Hide” option, all hidden objects (except notes) will 
be indicated by a “Hide” text marker.
Showing one object
1.Make sure “Hide” is activated on the display filter bar.
2.Click on the “Hide” text marker below the object you want to display.
The text is selected.
3.Press [Backspace] or [Delete].
The object appears. Undo is available if you change your mind.
Showing all objects
If you select “Show” from the Scores–Staff...

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Applications of hiding
Printing scales
If you want to create scale examples, enter the notes and hide time 
signatures, bar lines and other unnecessary objects.
A scale created with hidden bar lines, time signatures etc.
Graphic notation
By hiding bar lines, you can produce graphic notation.
Hiding notes meant for playback only
If you have recorded your music, you may have added glissandos, falls, 
etc. that sound fine but result in a lot of...

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Multiple rests
Multiple consecutive rests can be automatically consolidated into 
multi-rest measures as follows:
1.Open the Layout Settings dialog by selecting “Setup” from the 
Scores–Layout Settings submenu.
2.Set Multi-Rests to specify how many empty bars should be “allowed” 
before Cubase SX should collect them into a multi rest. 
For example, a value of 2 means that three or more consecutive empty bars will be col-
lected into a multi...

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Multi rest appearance
On the Beams and Bars tab in the Notation Style dialog (Scores–Global 
Settings submenu), you will find a couple of settings that determine the 
appearance of multi rests:
It is also possible to adjust the height and width of the multi-rest sym-
bol (in the Scores–Global Settings–Spacing dialog) and to select a 
font for the multi-rest numbers (in the Scores–Global Settings–Text 
Settings dialog).
Option Description
Show...

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Adding and editing bar lines
Editing existing bar lines
For each bar line, you can choose whether you want a regular, single 
bar line, a double bar line, a repeat sign, etc.
1.Double click on the bar line for which you want to edit the settings.
A dialog appears with a number of bar line types.
2.If you wish the bar line to be shown with “brackets”, activate the 
Brackets checkbox.
This is only relevant for repeat signs.
3.Click on the...

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The “Hide” option
One of the options in the Bar Lines dialog is called Hide. This can be 
used as an optional way of hiding bar lines. Bar lines hidden this way 
will not get a “Hide” text marker, nor will they be displayed if you select 
the “Show” command on the Staff Functions submenu. The bar spac-
ing, bar numbers etc. will behave just as if the bar line was visible. To 
show the bar line again, double click on it and select another type...

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5.Activate the option “Pickup Bar” and click OK.
Now, the time signature of the first bar takes on the look of the second 
bar’s signature, while the time signature in the second bar is hidden:
6.If you use bar numbers, double click on the first bar number and enter 
an offset of -1. 
7.Adjust the display of bar numbers and hide the “0” in the first measure. 

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By hiding rests
With this method, the first bar will actually have the same time signa-
ture as the following bars – it will only look like an upbeat bar:
1.Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar of the song.
The first bar before any adjustments.
2.Hide the rests that precede the notes.
3.Drag the bar line between measure one and two to adjust the width of 
the bar.
After hiding the rest and dragging the bar line.
4.If you like,...

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Setting the number of bars across the page
“Automatically”
• When you open a new combination of tracks for editing, the number of bars 
across the page is determined by the setting “Default Number of Bars per 
Staff” in the Preferences–Scores dialog.
• When you use the “Bars and Staves” function on the Auto Layout submenu 
(see page 267), you will be asked for the maximum allowed number of bars 
across the staff.
Manually
In Page Mode you...

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Using the tools
•To make a measure “fall down” on a new staff, use the Split tool to 
click on its bar line.
Before and after moving the third measure one staff down.
•To bring the measure back up to the previous staff, use the Glue Tube 
tool to click on the last bar line on the upper of the two staves.
This will in fact move all measures in the lower staff up to the upper.