Steinberg Cubase SX/SL 3 Score Layout And Printing Manual

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Clean Up Layout
This function allows you to delete invisible layout elements, which in 
effect restores the score to default settings.
1.Select “Clean Up Layout” from the Layout Functions submenu on the 
Scores menu.
A dialog appears with options as described below.
2.Turn on the items you want to delete or reset to standard settings.
3.Click on the This Staff button to clean up the active staff only, or the 
All Staves button to clean up all...

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Breaking bar lines
Sometimes you may not want a bar line to stretch all the way across a 
grand staff. In this case you might “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 broken. To break 
the first or last bar line in a grand staff, you need to click directly on these.
Before and after...

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Re-connecting broken bar lines 
If you have broken the bar lines, you can use the Glue tool to connect 
them again.
1.Select the Glue tool.
2.Click on one of the bar lines in the staff above the broken bar lines.
All bar lines between these staves in this grand staff are connected.
•To re-connect bar lines in several grand staves, hold down [Alt]/[Option] 
and click with the Glue tool as above.
The bar lines between the corresponding staves...

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13
Scoring for drums 

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In this chapter you will learn:
• How to set up the score 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, in order for you to make full use of this fact you need to un-
derstand a...

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You access the score drum map from the Global Settings submenu 
on the Scores menu.
Pitch vs. Display Pitch
In the Score Drum Map Settings dialog you will find a Pitch setting 
and a Display Pitch setting.
• The Pitch setting corresponds to the I-note for the drum sound and cannot be 
edited here.
• The Display Pitch value is used to set where vertically on the system the note 
should be displayed. It can be thought of as a display transpose setting that is 
individual...

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Use Score Drum Map on/off
For the drum map settings to actually be used in the score, you need 
to activate the Use Score Drum Map checkbox. This is found in two 
places: in the Staff Settings dialog (Options tab) and in the Score 
Drum Map Settings dialog. Note that these two checkboxes are dupli-
cates – activating one of them will automatically activate the other and 
vice versa.
Edit in Scores
This is displayed on page 281. 

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Setting up the drum map
Basic settings
1.Open the Score Editor for the drums track.
This should be a MIDI track for which you have assigned a drum map.
2.Select Drum Map (Scores–Global Settings).
The Score Drum Map Settings dialog appears.
3.If “Use Score Drum Map” isn’t active, turn it on.
•When “Use 
Score Drum Map” is activated, selecting a note in the 
score will automatically select the corresponding sound in the Score 
Drum Map Settings dialog.
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Initializing the display pitches
If you click the “Init. Disp. Notes” button, all display pitch values are re-
set, 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 “Head” column now shows two heads for each drum sound. 
As you...