Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual

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2. Make sure that the “Stems/Beams” checkbox is activated on the filter bar.
Now, below the notes where stems have been changed or beam slant adjusted 
manually, the word “Stem” appears.
3. Click on the “Stem” text to select it.
4. Press [Backspace] or [Delete] to remove it.
Before and after deleting the “Stem” item.
Accidentals and enharmonic shift
Making global settings
In the Score Settings dialog, on the Project page (Accidentals subpage), you can 
find a number of options for how accidentals are displayed in the score. Once set, 
these are valid for all tracks in the project. Proceed as follows:
PROCEDURE
1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Project page and select the 
Accidentals subpage from the Pages list.
You have the following options:
• Activate the “Courtesy Acc Distance” option and enter a value in the Bars field.
This determines after how many measures courtesy accidentals are shown. If 
you set this to “0”, notes outside the scale get accidentals and no courtesy 
accidentals are shown.
• Activate one of the following options:
Option Description
Force Notes outside the scale get accidentals, and accidentals are 
repeated even within the same bar.
Force all Every single note in the score gets an accidental. 
						

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2. In the “Outside the Scale” area, you can decide how five of the most common intervals outside the scale are displayed, as sharps or as flats.
IMPORTANT
If you activate the “Accidentals for Each Note ” option in the Score Settings dialog, on 
the Project–Notation Style subpage (in the “H.W. Henze Style” category), all notes 
are displayed with accidentals (even tied notes).
IMPORTANT
If you activate “Use Chord Track for A ccidentals”, the chord track is used to 
determine the accidentals.
RELATED LINKS
Chord Functions on page  814
Enharmonic Shift
If one or several notes are not displayed wi th the accidentals that you want, you can 
perform an Enharmonic Shift operation on them.
PROCEDURE
1. Select the notes to be shifted.
2. Click the desired option on the extended toolbar.
3. If you want the enharmonic shift to be  r
 epeated in the whole bar, activate the 
“Enharmonic shift for entire bar” option in the Score Settings dialog 
(Project–Accidentals subpage).
Extended Toolbar
Use these buttons when you want regu lar Enharmonic Shifting (select one 
option).
Use this button when you want to deactivate Enharmonic Shifting for the 
notes.
Use this button when you want to hide the accidental completely.
Use this button when you want to create a “help accidental” for the selected 
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Use this button when you want to enclose the accidental in parentheses. To 
remove these, select “off”.
Changing the note head shape
PROCEDURE
1. Select the notes for which you want to change the note head shape.
Make sure not to select the stems, only the note heads.
2. Open the Set Note Info dialog.
To do so, double-click one of the notes, click the “i” button on the extended toolbar, 
or right-click on a note head and select “Properties” from the context menu.
3. Open the “Note Head” pop-up menu in the top left corner of the dialog.
The pop-up menu contains all the available head shapes and an “Auto” option, which 
selects the normal default shape for the note.
4. Select one of the note heads.
5. Click Apply.
The settings are applied to the selected notes.
6. If you like, select other notes and make settings for them.
7. When you are done, close the dialog.
Other note details
Each note has a number of settin gs in the Set Note Info dialog. 
						

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The Set Note Info dialog contains the following settings:
Note Head
Used for selecting custom note head shapes.
Tablature on/off and number
Used for creating or editing tablature. This feature can be used for individual 
notes or together with the automatic tablature function.
Bows
Used for adding bow up/bow down articulation. When selecting “Off”, bow 
symbols are not displayed for the selected notes.
Bow up and down
Length
This allows you to change the displayed length of notes, without affecting 
playback. Note that the display quantize settings still apply. To reset this value 
to “Auto” (so that notes are displayed according to their actual length), scroll 
the value down to zero.
Accidental Distance
Use this to specify how far from the note, horizontally, you want the accidental. 
The higher the number the greater the distance.
No Ledger Lines
Turns off ledger lines for notes with high or low pitches.
With and without ledger lines
No Stem
Hides the note stem completely.
No Dot
Hides the dot from a dotted note. 
						

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No Flag/Beam
Activate this to hide the flags or beams of the selected notes.
Bracket Head
When this is activated, notes are displayed with brackets:
Bracket Head on and off
X Stem (Spoken)
When this option is activated for a note, it is displayed with an x across its 
stem. This is normally used to indicate spoken words.
Hide Note
Activating this checkbox hides the selected notes.
Stem
Determines the stem direction.
Tie
Determines the direction of ties. When this is set to “Auto”, the program 
chooses a tie direction depending on the stem direction of the tied notes.
Type
Determines the note type. There are four options:
•  Normal. This is how notes usually are displayed.
• Grace. When this is selected, notes are displayed as grace notes.
• Cue. When this is selected, notes are displayed as cue notes (smaller 
notes, often used as “guide notes” or optional lines).
• Graphic. These are special notes, useful for example for guitar notation 
(pull-offs) and trills (as “help notes”, indicating which notes to trill 
between). In both these cases the “No Stems” option could be useful.
Graphic notes are not included in the “automated cutting”. They are 
positioned after the notes they “belong to” (as opposed to grace notes).
Crossed
Activate this option, when you want the stem to be crossed by a slanted line 
(to indicate that the note is a grace note).
Grace note options
These options are available when Grace is selected on the Type pop-up 
menu.
RELATED LINKS
Changing the note head shape on page 1183
Creating tablature on page 1309
Display Quantize values on page 1156
Using Flip Stems on page 1178 
						

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Grace notes on page 1200
Cue notes on page 1199
The Cut Notes tool on page 1197
Coloring notes
You can assign colors to notes using the Event Colors pop-up menu on the toolbar.
PROCEDURE
1. Simply select the notes for which you want to use colors, open the Event 
Colors pop-up menu on the toolbar and pick a color.
Only the note heads are colored. Note that the color is only visible once the notes 
have been deselected.
2. On the far right in the Score Editor toolbar you can find the Hide Colors 
button.
If you assigned colors to some or all of the notes in your score, this button allows you 
to switch between display of colored or uncolored notes. This may help you to find 
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Scores Colors for Additional Meanings
If the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for Additional Meanings page) you can 
specify different colors for elements in the score in order to indicate that they are 
“special” in any way. You can for example choose a color for a “Moved Graphic” or 
a “Moved Slur”. These objects are colored accordingly when they are moved from 
their default positions.
PROCEDURE
1. Open the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for Additional Meanings).
2. Click in the Active column to activate this function for the corresponding 
element.
3. Click in the Color field to the right to select a color.
When color-printing a score, you get the colors you selected for the notes. When you 
are using a black-and-white printer, the notes appear in black (notes that have not 
been assigned a color) and different shades of gray (depending on how bright/dark 
a color was used for the note).
RELATED LINKS
Moving note symbols on page 1231 
						

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Copying settings between notes
If you have made various settings in the Set Note Info dialog for a note, and want to 
use these settings for other notes as well, there is an easy way to do this:
PROCEDURE
1. Set up the first note as desired.
This includes the settings in the Set Note Info dialog, but also any note-related 
symbols such as accents, staccato, articulation, etc.
2. In the score, select the note and select “Copy” from the Edit menu.
3. Select the notes to which you want to copy the attributes.
4. Right-click the notes to which you want to copy the attributes, and select 
“Paste Attributes” from the context menu.
The selected notes now get the attributes of the first, copied note, but their pitches 
and note values remain unchanged.
RELATED LINKS
Adding note symbols on page 1213
Handling beaming
Turning beaming on/off
Beaming is enabled/disabled independently for each staff.
PROCEDURE
1. On the Staff page in the Score Settings dialog, click the Options tab.
2. To turn off beaming, activate No Beams and click Apply.
Even if beaming is deactivated for the staff, you can put some notes under beams, as 
described below.
Grouping
When beaming is on, the program automatically groups notes under beams. 
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Using the Edit Time Signature dialog
The time signature for the score naturally affects grouping. But you can control this 
yourself by creating a composite time signature used only for grouping:
PROCEDURE
1. Open the Edit Time Signature dialog by double-clicking the time signature 
symbol for the staff.
2. Set up the numerator with the grouping you desire.
If you for example want eighth notes in two groups of three and one group of two, 
enter 3+3+2.
3. Set the denominator, if necessary.
4. Activate “For Grouping Only”.
5. Click OK.
IMPORTANT
Note that the “For Grouping Only” setting only affects the way the numerator is 
divided. Any changes you make to the “sum” of the numerator number or the 
denominator result in a change of actual time signature in the project. If you need a 
grouping which cannot be entered in the current time signature, you have to group 
notes manually, see below.
Regular grouping of a number of eighth notes or smaller (“Beam”)
If the grouping the program assigns is not the one you want, you can put any 
selection of eighth notes or smaller under a beam:
PROCEDURE
1. Select at least two notes, where you want the beam to begin and end.
All notes between these two notes are grouped under a beam.
2. Click the Group Notes icon on the extended toolbar or right-click on one of 
the notes to be grouped and select “Beam” from the “Group/Ungroup” 
submenu of the context menu.
The Group Notes icon 
						

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Before and after grouping
Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the Grouping dialog, allowing you to 
adjust the “note value” for the symbols.
Grouping quarter notes or larger under a beam (“Brillenbass”)
It is also possible to use the grouping feature for notes that are not displayed with 
beams (quarter notes, half notes, etc.). The result are so called “Brillenbass” 
symbols, commonly used for indicating repeated accompaniment patterns, etc.
• Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the Grouping dialog, allowing 
you to adjust the “note value” for the symbols.
Grouping notes using Repeats
To show Repeats for the grouped notes, proceed as follows:
PROCEDURE
1. Make sure that the filter bar is visible in the Score Editor.
If the filter bar is not visible, click the “Set up Window Layouts” button on the toolbar 
and select the Filters option.
2. Activate the “Grouping” checkbox in the filter bar.
Now, you see the text “Grouping” below all groups you have created.
3. Select the desired notes.
4. Right-click on one of the notes and from the Group/Ungroup submenu, select 
“Repeat...”
5. In the dialog that appears, use the radio buttons to select the desired note 
value for the repeats.
In this example, the “Repeat” feature is used to display two pairs of sixteenth notes 
as two eighth notes with “repeat bars”. Note that the second and fourth sixteenth 
note have only been hidden – playback is not affected!