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661 Working with MusicXML Importing and exporting MusicXML files Cubase can import and export MusicXML files, which makes it possible to transfer musical scores to and from applications that support this file format. However, there are some restrictions concerning the parameters sup - ported by Cubase: Importing MusicXML files 1.Pull down the File menu and open the Import submenu. 2.On the submenu, select “MusicXML…”. 3.In the file dialog that opens, locate and select the MusicXML file and click “Open”. 4.Another file dialog opens in which you can select the project folder for the new project. Select an existing project folder or create a new one by clicking “Create” and entering a name in the dialog. 5.A new project is created with the name of the MusicXML file. NotesExportImport PitchYesYes LengthYesYes StavesYesUp to two per part VoicesYesUp to four per staff AccidentalsYesYes TiesYesNo DotsYesNo StemYesYes BeamsYesNo Grace NotesYesYes RestsYesYes Layout Page SizeYesNo Page marginsYes Yes Page scalingYesYes Page breaksYesNo System breaksYesYes Distance between staves and systemsYesYes Left/right InsetYesNo Distance between measuresYesNo Hidden stavesYesYes x and y positions of symbolsYesYes Symbols KeysYesYes ClefsYesYes Time SignatureYesYes DynamicsYesYes OrnamentsYes / incompleteYes / incomplete ArticulationsYes / incompleteYes / incomplete TechnicalsYes / incompleteYes / incomplete LyricsYesYes Chord SymbolsYesYes Damper PedalYesYes DynamicsYesYes RehearsalsYesYes TextYesYes Layout TextYesN.A. Global TextYes“Credits” DashesYesYes EndingsYesYes Octave ShiftYesYes Bar line typesYesYes SlursYesYes Hammer-on/pull-offNoNo Formatting Display TransposeYesYes Drum notationYesYes Short / long staff namesYesYes Program changesYesN.A. Music fontYes (if Jazz font)Yes Tablature (including String tunings)YesYes Notes Export Import
662 Working with MusicXML Exporting MusicXML files 1.Set up the score the way you want it in the Score Edi- tor of Cubase. 2.Open the File menu and open the Export submenu. 3.On the submenu, select “MusicXML…”. Note that this option is only available when the Score Editor is open. 4.A file dialog opens in which you can choose an exist- ing empty folder or create a new folder for saving the MusicXML file (with the extension “.xml”).
664 Designing your score: additional techniques About this chapter 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 dialog. • How to use the Reset Layout function. • How to break bar lines. Layout settings The Layout page of the Score Settings dialog contains a number of settings that affect the display of the current layout. The track list The track list lists the tracks included in the layout and al- lows you to make the following settings: Equal Spacing Activate this option when you want a note to take up space according to its note value. When Equal Spacing is activated, two sixteenth notes take up as much space as one eighth note, for example. Size Changes the size of all staves, see “Staff size” on page 665. Multi-Rests Whenever more than one-bar rests occur, the program can replace these with a multi-rest symbol. This parameter allows you to set how many empty bars are “allowed” be - fore Cubase collects them into a multi-rest. “Off” means “never”. See “Multiple rests” on page 667 for more infor- mation on multi-rests. Real Book When this option is activated, clef symbols are not set out at the beginning of each staff, only on the first staff on each page. !Before you start designing the score page layout, you should open the Page Setup dialog on the File menu, and make settings for paper size, print scale and margins! OptionDescription BracketsThese two columns allow you to add braces or brackets, en-compassing any number of staves in the layout, see “Adding brackets and braces” on page 672. TThis is relevant if the “Modern Time Sign.” option is activated to the right. In that case, you use this column to specify for which tracks the time signature is shown – see below. NThis option lets you specify for each staff in a layout whether the staff name is shown. LIf this is activated, any layout symbols are shown; otherwise they are hidden. For example, this allows you to have rehearsal marks shown for the top staff only in a multi-staff layout. DThis option lets you specify for each staff in a layout whether it should use Display Transpose.
665 Designing your score: additional techniques Staff Separators When this option is activated, separator symbols are in- serted 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 Time Sign section on the Proj - ect–Notation Style subpage of the Score Settings dialog. When modern time signature is selected, you use the “T” column in the track list in the Layout page to specify for which tracks time signatures are displayed. •If you prefer to display the score in a more modern way, check out the other options on the Notation Style subpage. For descriptions of the options use the Help button in the dialog. Staff size For one staff You can set the staff size as a percentage value of the normal size. 1.Make sure that the staff you want to edit is active. 1.Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and select the Options tab. 2.Adjust the Size parameter in the System Sizes section. The values range from 25 % up to 250 % of the normal size. 3.Click Apply. For all tracks in a layout 1.Open the Score Settings and select the Layout page. 2.Change the Size parameter. The values range from 25 % up to 250 % of the normal size. 3.Click Apply. All staves now get the desired size. Staves that have indi- vidual size settings (see above) still are proportionally smaller/larger. This setting is part of the layout and can be used when printing a full score slightly smaller than the parts for each instrument, for example. Hiding/showing objects Any object on a page can be hidden, including notes, rests, symbols, clefs, bar lines, even entire staves. This can be useful in the following situations: Printing scales If you want to create scale examples, enter the notes and hide time signatures, bar lines and other unwanted 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 glis- sandos, falls, etc. that sound fine but result in a lot of un- necessary notes. You probably want to hide those notes and insert the suitable symbols instead.
666 Designing your score: additional techniques Hiding To hide items, proceed as follows: 1.Select all the items you want to hide. 2.Select “Hide/Show” from the Score menu or click on the “H” (Hide) button on the extended toolbar. •Notes can also be hidden by selecting them, clicking the “i” button on the extended toolbar and ticking the Hide Note checkbox in the Set Note Info dialog (see “Other note details” on page 607). Hiding in the current layout only If you want the hiding to be “local” to the current layout, hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] when selecting “Hide/ Show” as described above. ÖYou can also move hidden objects to the layout by right-clicking the “Hide” marker and selecting “Move to Layout”. Viewing hidden objects The filter bar (shown by clicking the “Set up Window Lay- out” button on the toolbar and activating the Filters option) contains two options related to hidden objects: •If you activate the “Hidden Notes” option, all hidden notes in the score are shown. Deactivating “Hidden Notes” hides the notes again. •If you activate the “Hide” option, all hidden objects (except notes) are indicated by a “Hide” text marker. Showing one object 1.Make sure that “Hide” is activated on the filter bar. 2.Click on the “Hide” text marker below the object you want to display again. 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 “Hide/Show” from the Scores menu again, all hidden objects are displayed. •You can also use the Reset Layout function to perma- nently display hidden notes and objects, as described in the section “Reset Layout” on page 674. Showing a hidden note While all hidden notes can be made visible by ticking the Hidden Notes checkbox on the filter bar, you may want to make some of them “permanently” visible again: 1.Activate the Hidden Notes checkbox on the filter bar. 2.Select the notes that you want to “un-hide”. In the Preferences dialog (Scores–Use Colors for Additional Meanings) you can set the color for hidden notes. 3.Double-click one of the notes. 4.Deactivate the Hide Note option in the Set Note Info dialog and click Apply. Coloring notes You can use the color pop-up menu on the toolbar to col- orize selected notes, e.g. for educational purposes. This is described in detail in the section “Coloring notes” on page 608. !If the Hide option in the filter bar is activated, hidden objects are shown in gray so that they are still visible and you can select them. !This is not possible when hiding notes, only other symbols.
667 Designing your score: additional techniques Multiple rests Multiple consecutive rests can be automatically displayed as multi-rests. Proceed as follows: 1.Open the Score Settings and select the Layout page. 2.Set the Multi-Rests option to the number of empty bars that are “allowed” before Cubase displays them as a multi-rest. For example, a value of 2 means that three or more consecutive empty bars are displayed as a multi-rest. If you set this to “Off”, multi-rests are not used. 3.Click Apply and close the dialog. The multi-rests now appear in the score. A multi-rest over three bars Splitting multi-rests To divide one long multiple rest into several shorter ones, proceed as follows: 1.Double-click on the multi-rest symbol. The Split Multi-Rest dialog appears: 2.In the dialog, enter the bar number where you want the first split. 3.Click OK. If you need more splits, double-click on any multi-rest symbol and proceed as above. Multi-rest appearance The Project page in the Score Settings dialog contains several subpages, on which you can make settings for multi-rests: •The subpage “Notation Style” contains the following settings concerning multi-rests: •On the Spacings subpage of the dialog, you can adjust the height and width of multi-rest symbols. •On the Text Settings subpage, you can select a font for the multi-rest numbers (select “Multi-Rests” in the “Font For” pop-up menu and make the desired settings). Editing bar lines Editing existing bar lines For each bar line, you can choose whether you want a reg- ular, 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.!The program automatically splits multi-rests at time signature changes, double bar lines, repeat signs and rehearsal marks. OptionDescription Multi-Rests – Church StyleWhen this is activated, multi-rests are shown in “church style” (vertical bars), rather than with the regular, hori-zontal symbols. Multi-Rests – Numbers above SymbolWhen this is activated, the numbers are shown above the multi-rest symbol, instead of below it. Multi-Rests – Snap Rests moved with the Layout toolWhen this is activated, rests automatically snap to “intel-ligent” positions in the score (i.e. positions used in regu-lar notation) when moved with the layout tool. If this is deactivated, rests can be positioned freely. Bar numbers – Show Range with Multi-RestsWhen this is activated, and bar numbers are displayed, the bar numbers of a multi-rest are shown as a range.
668 Designing your score: additional techniques 2.If you want the bar line to be shown with “brackets”, activate the Brackets checkbox. This is only relevant for repeat signs. 3.Click on the desired bar line type. The dialog closes and the bar line type is changed. 4.If you do not want to display bar lines at the beginning of the parts, open the Score Settings dialog on the Project– Notation Style subpage (Bar Lines category) and activate the “Hide First Bar line in Parts” option. ÖThe bar line types are part of the Project layer – any changes you make are reflected in all layouts. Creating upbeats By using the Pickup Bar feature With this method, the upbeat actually contains exactly the number of beats displayed. That is, if you have an upbeat of one beat, your project starts with one bar in 1/4 time. 1.Change the time signature of the first bar to the length of the upbeat. 2.Insert a time signature of the correct kind (the time sig- nature used throughout the project) in the second bar. To insert a time signature, select it in the “Time Signature” section in the Symbols Inspector and click in the Score with the Pencil tool. 3.Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar. The first bar before making any adjustments 4.Double-click the time signature for the upbeat bar. The Edit Time Signature dialog appears. 5.Activate the “Pickup Bar” option 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. By hiding rests With this method, the first bar actually gets the same time signature as the following bars – it only looks like an up - beat bar: 1.Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar. The first bar before making any adjustments 2.Hide the rests that precede the notes. 3.Drag the bar line between measure one and two to ad- just the width of the bar. After hiding the rest and dragging the bar line 4.If you like, move the notes in the upbeat measure, us- ing the Layout tool.
669 Designing your score: additional techniques 5.If you use bar numbers, adjust them as described in the previous example. The final upbeat 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 “Default Number of Bars per Staff” setting in the Prefer - ences dialog (Scores–Editing page). •In the Auto Layout dialog (see “Auto Layout” on page 672), you can set the maximum number of bars across the staff. Manually In Page Mode, you have full control over the number of bars appearing across the page, by using the Number of Bars dialog or the tools. ÖIf you want to use the “Max. number of Bars” option in the Auto Layout dialog (see “Auto Layout” on page 672), you should do this before you adjust the number of bars manually. Using the Number of Bars dialog 1.Make a staff active in the system where you want to make changes. This means that if everything looks fine until for example the fifth system, activate one of the staves in this system. 2.Pull down the Scores menu and select “Number Of Bars” from the Advanced Layout submenu. The Number of Bars dialog opens. 3.Set the desired number of bars across the page. •To change the number of bars for the active staff only, click “This Staff”. •To change the number of bars for the active staff and all following staves, click “All Staves”. In other words, to set all systems on all pages to the same number of bars, make the very first staff active and use the All Staves option. Using the tools •To make a bar “fall down” on a new staff, use the Split tool to click on its bar line. Before and after moving the third bar one staff down •To bring the bar back up to the previous staff, use the Glue tool to click on the last bar line on the upper of the two staves. This in fact moves all measures in the lower staff to the upper staff.
670 Designing your score: additional techniques Moving bar lines The following operations can be made using the regular Object Selection tool or the Layout tool. Moving a bar line If you drag a bar line to the left or right, the surrounding bars are adjusted proportionally. Moving bar lines on all staves If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] when dragging a bar line, all bar lines below the one you drag are moved accordingly. Moving a single bar line separately If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging a bar line, the widths of the surrounding bars are not affected. Making an indent on one line •To create an indent, simply drag the first or last bar line on a staff. The sizes of all measures are adjusted proportionally. Before and after dragging the first bar line on the first staff Making indents on several lines If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the first or last bar line in a system, all following systems get the same indent. If you want all lines on all pages to be modified in the same way, hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the appropriate bar line on the first system of the score. The last bar line in the score Cubase attempts to move the last bar line and space the bars on the last line in a sensible way. But you can change this manually by dragging the last bar line, if you like. To change the type of the last bar line, double-click it and se - lect the desired type. Resetting bar spacing To reset the bar spacing to standard values for several lines, proceed as follows: 1.Locate the first line for which you want to reset the bar spacing, and make one staff in that system active. 2.Select “Number of Bars” from the Advanced Layout submenu on the Scores menu. 3.Specify the number of bars that you already have on the line. 4.Click on “This Staff”. Clicking “All Staves” resets the lines of all staves in the score, see “Using the Number of Bars dialog” on page 669. 5.Close the dialog. The bar spacing is reset for the currently selected staff and all following staves. Dragging staves For the following operations, you can use the Object Se- lection tool or the Layout tool. ÖDragging staves can only be done in Page Mode. Adding space between two grand staves 1.Locate the first staff in the lower of the two systems that you want to spread apart. 2.Click just to the left of the first bar line and keep the mouse button pressed. The entire staff is selected.