Score Editor Basics V1 in Cubase

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Score Editor Basics V1 in Cubase

hello everybody Andrew Blake from thedigitalaudiomanual.com today we're goingto start having a look at the scoreeditor in Cubase but before we start Iwant to remind you that there's a linkbelow to the free content navigationguide which is an easy to navigatewebpage with links to all the content onthis channel and besides that in thenear future I'm going to begin addingtips and other bits of information thatwill only be available there you knowthings like simple steps that will getyou started and up and running quickthings that are in the videos but arewritten down in simple steps that serveas quick reminders when you needinformation down the road if you'reworking with programs like wavelab orCubase plugins or the cable guys shaperBox 2 and many many other projects thatare in the works then I know you'regoing to find just like I have that thisis an invaluable study Aid and the otherthing I want to make sure you understandis that this is not a simple PDF this isa constantly updated page 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it's ahuge subject but for any of those withcuriosity about it it's also a veryrewarding subject to understand and geta handle on let me just show you some ofthe very very basics of what's involvedwith this whole thing we're looking at ascore right now but I'm going to closethis down so if I take this part thatI've created in Cubase this little fourbar section[Music]which contains a little Melody and alittle chord section if you selecteither the track or the actual Partsdoesn't really matter and go up to thescore menu and there's an option herethat says open The Score editor and theshortcut keys if you haven't changed toMark control R and you are given thiswhich now represents all the writtennotes on their respective musical staffsand as the song plays this little cursorkind of moves along through itand there you have the score editor nowthe amazing thing about the score editorand really what the reason why it'sreally so nice and interesting in thefirst place is that it's not only awritten document now of your music butyou can actually perform an edit in thescore editor and it reflects in youractual midi compositions so let's say Itake my mouse and I click and I dragover just these first couple sectionshere the first couple bars in my case Ican hit alt P to do a little Looprecording at this point I can take oneof these notes any of these notes anyway I choose let's say I take this noteand click on it I can go up into thepitch area here and with my mouse wheelI can start to spin on this note and Ican change the pitchand I can change my composition any wayI want[Music]same thing applies to the length or theposition or any number of things I wouldwant to change I can do it all righthere on the score it's just as flexibleas using any other editor in Cubase onceyou've created your Masterpiece you canprint it out you can actually dorecording right here in the score editorit's just a huge Universe of otheroptions for you to take control of yourmusic but there is no denying thatyou're not just going to open up thescore editor and understand what to dothere's quite a learning curve and a lotof things to understand but like anyother Journey you start with one stepand here we goso one of the first Concepts to kind ofunderstand as we journey into this worldof the score is the idea of how midi isinterpreted as opposed to how a scoreinterprets things when you're dealingwith your midi notes you're kind of inthe world of ticks meaning that you havea quarter note equals 480 ticks and ifyou get into a score and you try tographically draw something like thatyou're not going to draw 480 of anythingin a score let alone 480 of something ona quarter note in a score and thenthere's the you know beams and all thesekind of things that are involved inscores so there's a basic idea ofinterpretation when you start dealingwith the score as opposed to literallywhat happens with midi notes and againif you try to graphically get everythingthat's happening on a midi performanceyour score would be be covered withlittle black squiggles that probablyquestionably the best musician in theworld would have a hard time performingit so that brings us to this conceptthat Cubase has introduced called adisplay quantize where it kind of triesto simplify you know what the midiinterpretation is in a more scorefriendly way of drawing things and theway you start getting into that is whenyou have your score like we're lookingat right here in front of us if I goback up to the score menu at the top andI find my way down to the settings thisopens up this screen here with of courseall kinds of options but you want tolocate your way to there's a tab herethat says staff and a tab below thatthat says Main and as you come down intothat area there's an area that saysdisplay quantize and there's twodifferent displays one for notes and onefor rests and one of the first things toexperiment with when you hit any ofthese drop downs unless you get allkinds of note values you'll want to tryto go as my recommendation to the lowestpossible resolution meaning in this caseit has a 4 here which would stand for aquarter note I mean you have all ofthese 64 triplets and 32 triplets and64th notes and and sometimes you'regoing to need this kind of stuff whenyou're dealing with a score but one ofthe places to start is to go to thesimplest resolution which in this caseis a quarter note I'm going to hit thatand then the same thing on the rest soI'm going to go down to one that says 4for the rest and now I'm going to godown and I'm going to hit applyand if you look at the score it hasbecome much more simplified in the wayit's reading there's not a bunch ofextra little squiggles for extra restsfor 16th note rests and bars carryingover dotted small increments so one ofthe things to try is to first play withthat display quantitize and simplify itand see if it makes your score morereadable or makes more sense in the waya musician would actually approach it ifit looks like some of the details aremissing that you think are essentialthen you're gonna have to start bumpingit up maybe from a quarter note to aneighth note and you know on and on butthat's the first thing is to play withthat display quantize and try tosimplify your score as much as possibleto make it more readable as you'relooking at this display quantize areaover here on the left it also lists theactual tracks that we're looking at andso here I have my piano and I have mypad and another thing that happens if Ilook down at the head if I change tothat for a second if I look at my scoreI have an excessive amount of what'scalled Ledger lines which means thenotes are not even on the actual staffbut they're way below an extra littleLedger lines are written another thingyou may want to try to do when you havesituations like that is to go over tothe right here where it says the displaytranspose and you have a semitone dropdown here as well and you can spin thatup or down I'm going to bring it up to a12 meaning it's raising it all up anoctave and then I'll hit apply and thatwill move these notes back up onto thestaff and they're not so much writtenoff in some you know heavy Ledger linesway above or below so those are twothings to play with right off the bat isto mess with this display quantize andyou really just have to experiment buttry the lowest resolutions and thenanything that seems to be too far up ordown on the staff itself change thesemitone display transpose as well I'mgoing to close this out now anotherthing depending on what kind of mouseyou have but if you have a mouse with acontrol wheel on it if you hold yourcontrol key down and spin that Mouse youcan change the size of the score andthat really comes in handy as you'remessing around with this stuff ifsomething doesn't seem to be readable orit's off the screen you can change itjust spin it up or down to change thesize another thing to play with and getfamiliar with early on if you go back upto the score menu and come down there'san option that says page mode if youclick on that it gives you a picture ofwhat it would be like if you print thisout and the same thing you can hold thecontrol key and spin with your mouse andyou can get various resolutions of whatyou see on the screenokay that's a wrap for today as usual ifyou don't have your navigation guide besure to pick that up before you go haslinks to all the content on this channelever growing and free to use it's rightbelow this video just click on itdownload it save it to your favoritesso the score editor welcome to the worldof music notation now you may be someonethat knows not one single thing aboutwritten notation but maybe you have alittle curiosity about it or you may besomeone that has some musical expertisebut has never wanted to venture intocubase's score editor because of thedifficulty presented there I can surelyunderstand either one of those placesbut here we go sit back relax enjoy thefree education and maybe it will expandsome of your thoughts on things thatmaybe you haven't messed with too muchand who knows maybe there's a buddingMozart out there somewhere just waitingto be awakenedas always it's great to have you guyshere I'll see you in the next video