Steinberg Cubase SX/SL 3 Score Layout And Printing Manual

							 
Score Layout and Printing 
						

							 
Manual by Anders Nordmark
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Table of Contents 
						

							 
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4 Table of Contents 
9How the Score Editor  
works 
10In this chapter you will learn:
10Welcome!
11How the Score Editor 
operates
12MIDI notes vs. score notes
13Display quantize
18Entering notes by hand vs. 
recording notes 
19The basics 
20In this chapter you will learn:
20Preparations
20Opening the Score Editor
21The project cursor
22Page Mode
24Changing the Zoom factor
25The active staff
26Making page setup settings
26Designing your work space
31About dialogs in the Score 
Editor
31Setting key, clef and time 
signature
38Working with transposing 
instruments
39Working order
40Force update 
41Transcribing MIDI  
recordings 
42In this chapter you will learn:
42About transcription
42Getting the parts ready
43Strategies: Preparing parts 
for score printout44Staff settings
53Situations which require 
additional techniques
55Inserting display quantize 
changes
56Strategies: Adding display 
quantize changes
57The Explode function
59Using “Scores Notes To 
MIDI” 
61Entering and editing 
notes using the  
mouse 
62In this chapter you will learn:
62Staff settings
65Note values and positions
68Adding and editing notes
72Selecting notes
74Deleting notes
75Moving notes
78Duplicating notes
78Moving using the bar 
handles
79Cut, copy and paste
80Editing pitches of individual 
notes
82Changing the length of notes
84Splitting a note in two
84Working with the Display 
Quantize tool
85Split (piano) staves
87Strategies: Multiple staves
88Inserting and editing clefs, 
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91Staff settings 
92In this chapter you will learn:
92Staff settings
93Making settings
94Working with staff presets
95Staff names
95Key and clef
96Display quantize and 
interpretation flags
97Display transpose
98The Options tab
100The Polyphonic and 
Tablature tabs 
101Polyphonic voicing 
102In this chapter you will learn:
102Background: Polyphonic 
voicing
105Setting up the voices
109Strategies: How many 
voices do I need?
110Entering notes into voices
111Checking which voice a 
note belongs to
111Moving notes between 
voices
114Handling rests
115Voices and display quantize
117Creating crossed voicings
119Automatic polyphonic 
voicing – Merge All Staves
120Converting voices to tracks – 
Extract Voices 
121Additional note and  
rest formatting 
122In this chapter you will learn:
122Background: Note stems
123Setting stem direction
126Stem length
127Accidentals and enharmonic 
shift
129Changing the note head 
shape
130Other note details
133Copying settings between 
notes
134Handling beaming
144About tied notes
147Graphic moving of notes
148Cue notes
150Grace notes
152Tuplets 
157Working with symbols 
158In this chapter you will learn:
158Background: The different 
layers
161The symbol palettes
168Important! – Symbols, 
staves and voices
169Adding symbols to the score
183Selecting symbols
186Moving and duplicating 
symbols
193Changing length and shape
194Double clicking symbols
195Deleting symbols
195Copy and paste
196Alignment
197Symbol details 
						

							 
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209Working with chords 
210Chord symbols 
217Working with text 
218In this chapter you will learn:
218Adding and editing text 
symbols
223Different Types of text
231Text functions 
239Working with layouts 
240In this chapter you will learn:
240Background: Layouts
241Creating a layout
242The Layout List
243Using layouts – an example
244Marker Track to Form 
245Designing your 
score – additional  
techniques 
246In this chapter you will learn:
246Layout settings
249Staff size
250Hiding/showing items
252Coloring notes
253Multiple rests
255Adding and editing bar lines
256Creating upbeats
259Setting the number of bars 
across the page
261Moving bar lines
263Dragging staves
266Adding brackets and braces
267Auto Layout
271Clean Up Layout
272Breaking bar lines 
275Scoring for drums 
276In this chapter you will learn:
276Background: Drum maps in 
the Score Editor
279Setting up the drum map
282Setting up a staff for drum 
scoring
283Entering and editing notes
283Using “Single Line Drum 
Staff” 
285Creating tablature 
286In this chapter you will learn:
286Automatic creation
289Manual creation
290Tablature number 
appearance
291Editing
292Note head shape 
293The score and MIDI  
playback 
294In this chapter you will learn:
294Scores and the Play Order 
mode
295The MIDI Meaning function
296Dynamic crescendo symbols 
299Printing and exporting  
pages 
300Printing
300Exporting pages as image 
files 
						

							 
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303Troubleshooting 
304In this chapter you will learn:
304How to use this chapter
304Adding and editing notes
307Symbols and layout 
309Tips and Tricks 
310In this chapter you will learn: 
315Index 
						

							 
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8 Table of Contents 
						

							 
1
 
How the Score Editor works 
						

							 
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1 – 10 How the Score Editor works 
In this chapter you will learn:
 
• How the Score Editor and MIDI data relate.
• What display quantize is and how it works.
 
Welcome!
 
Welcome to scoring in Cubase SX! The Score Editor has been cre-
ated to allow you to get any possible piece of music displayed as a 
score, complete with all the necessary symbols and formatting. It al-
lows you to extract parts out of a full orchestra score, to add lyrics and 
comments, create lead sheets, score for drums, create tablature, etc. 
In other words: just about any type of notation you could ever desire!
There are a few basic principles to how the Score Editor works, which 
you just have to understand to make full use of it. So please bear with 
us during this chapter, we’ll try to be as concise as possible.