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Exporting
To export the score, proceed as follows:
1.Make sure you are in Page Mode.
2.Pull down the Scores menu and select “Export Scores…” from the 
“Global Functions” submenu.
The Export Scores dialog appears.
3.Select a picture format.
You can select bitmap, portable network graphics (png) or Adobe Photoshop format.
4.Specify a resolution for the file.
This determines the accuracy with which the image will be created. 300dpi, for exam-
ple, is the resolution many laser printers use for printing. If the image file will only be dis-
played on screen in other programs, select 72 or 96 (depending on screen resolution) 
and it will have the same size as it had in Cubase SX.
5.Specify a name and a location for the file and click “Save”.
The specified section of the score is exported and saved as a file. It can now be im-
ported into any program supporting the selected file format. 
						

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Troubleshooting 
						

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In this chapter you will learn:
• Reasons for problems you might encounter and how to solve them.
How to use this chapter
This chapter contains a number of questions that might arise when 
you use the Score Editor, and answers to each one. For more informa-
tion about the functions referred to below, please check the previous 
chapters. If you don’t know where to look, use the index.
Adding and editing notes
I enter a note with one value and it is shown as a note with another value.
Change the Rests display quantize to a smaller note value. Try turning 
off Auto Quantize, especially if you don’t have any triplets or triplets 
only.
Notes are not displayed on correct positions.
Try changing the Notes display quantize value.
There are a number of short rests after my notes.
Your Rests display quantize value might be set to too small a note 
value. Raise it. Also check Clean Lengths.
When I change the length of a note, nothing happens.
This is because the display quantize value puts a restriction on what 
note values can be displayed. Check that display quantize is actually 
set to the smallest note value you have in your piece.
I have adjusted display quantize and the other staff settings best I can. 
The notes are still shown with the wrong values.
You might need to use one of three features: inserting display quantize 
events, using polyphonic voicing, or applying Scores Notes To MIDI. 
						

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I change the display quantize settings in the Staff Settings dialog and 
nothing happens.
Did you remember to click Apply? Maybe you have already inserted 
display quantize events in the score? These override the staff settings.
Suddenly many display quantize events appear in the score.
This is not a malfunction. If you had Auto Quantize on and start insert-
ing display quantize events, the auto quantizing is automatically trans-
formed into display quantize events.
One long note is shown as many tied notes.
Do other notes occur at the same positions but with different lengths? 
Then you need to use polyphonic voicing. Are the note(s) syncopated? 
Then you should try the syncopation feature.
Even though I’ve tried the above, notes are not tied as I want them.
The way notes are tied in Cubase SX follows basic notation rules. You 
may need to make exceptions to these rules, by using the Cut Notes 
tool.
I have an unnecessarily large amount of rests.
Especially with polyphonic voicing, superfluous rests may be created. 
Try turning off rests for one or more voices. You might also leave the 
rests on in the Staff Settings dialog (Polyphonic tab) and then hide 
the rests you don’t need, one by one.
When using polyphonic voices, a number of rests are drawn on top of 
each other.
As above, you should try hiding rests (in the Staff Settings dialog, Poly-
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In polyphonic voices, notes that are on the same musical position are 
not displayed exactly vertically above each other.
This is not a malfunction. Cubase SX has built in automatic algorithms 
for making the score as legible as possible. Sometimes this will in-
clude adjustments of the “graphic” position of notes, especially with 
small intervals like seconds. You can always move the notes using the 
Graphic Move tool.
When using polyphonic voices, notes with small intervals “collide”.
As described above, Cubase SX tries to avoid this, but only for voices 
1 and 2 in the upper staff and voices 5 and 6 in the lower. For other 
voices, please use the Graphic Move tool to manually move the notes.
When I select a note, nothing is shown on the info line.
The note is probably tied to another note. This means that the second 
note doesn’t really exist, it is just a graphic indication that the main 
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Symbols and layout
Symbols from the Layout Symbols palette are sometimes invisible when 
I open the score.
This is not a malfunction. Those symbols are part of a layout. If you 
open the score with another layout, for example because you open an-
other combination of tracks, you will see another layout which might 
not contain any Symbols at all. See the chapter “Working with layouts”.
I can’t select an object on the screen, or I can’t select an object without 
selecting another object.
Use the selection rectangle to drag up (or down) and around the ob-
jects. Then hold down [Shift] and deselect all the objects you don’t 
want included, by clicking on them. You should also check out the 
lock layer function.
Symbols have disappeared.
Are they layout symbols? Then maybe they belong to another layout 
than the one you are editing now.
If that is not the reason, maybe you have inserted the symbol into the 
wrong staff. Please observe the warning on page 168.
A symbol doesn’t move with its staff. Auto Layout produces far too wide 
spacing.
Maybe you have inserted the symbol into the wrong staff. Please ob-
serve the warning on page 168.
A note symbol appears too far from the note I wanted it inserted on.
Do you have the correct voice activated? Note symbols are inserted 
into voices, just like notes. 
						

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Tips and Tricks 
						

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In this chapter you will learn:
• A number of useful techniques to help you work more efficiently with the 
Score Editor of Cubase SX.
❐Don’t forget to check out the example files in the Score Tutorial folder 
(included on the Cubase SX program CD). They provide a lot of hands-
on tips on how to use the program efficiently.
Moving a note without transposing it
If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] while moving a note (or a number 
of notes), and drag sideways, you don’t have to worry about it being 
transposed. Another way is to assign key commands (under the 
Nudge category in the Key Commands dialog on the File menu) for 
moving notes and other objects.
Moving and spacing several staves
If you have a number of staves that you want displayed with an equal 
distance (for example, all strings of a grand staff in a full orchestra 
score), this can be done using the Position Info window: 
1.Open the Preferences–Scores dialog and deactivate the option “Glo-
bal staff Spacing with [Alt-Gr]/[Option]-[Command]”.
2.In the score, select the staves that you want to set to an equal dis-
tance.
3.Open the Position Info window (by clicking on the ruler).
4.Use the To Previous Staff or To Next Staff settings to specify the de-
sired distance between the staves.
Don’t close the window yet!
5.Hold down [Alt Gr]/[Option]-[Command] and press [Return] to close 
the window.
All selected staves are spaced according to your settings.
•If you do this with the “Global staff Spacing with [Alt-Gr]/[Option]-
[Command]” option activated, all staves in the score are affected.