Basic Score Editor (Cubase Artist only)

The basic Score Editor is available in Cubase Artist. It shows MIDI notes as a musical score. This offers basic score editing and printing.

You can open the Score Editor in a separate window or in the lower zone of the Project window. Opening the Score Editor in the lower zone of the Project window is useful if you want to access the Score Editor functions from within a fixed zone of the Project window.

To open a MIDI part in the Score Editor, do one of the following:

  • Select a MIDI part in the Project window and select MIDI > Scores > Open Score Editor.

  • Select a MIDI part in the Project window and press Ctrl/Cmd-R.

Note

If you select MIDI > Set up Editor Preferences, the Preferences dialog opens on the Editors page. Make your settings to specify if you want editors to open in a separate window or in the lower zone of the Project window.

The Score Editor window:

The Score Editor in the lower zone of the Project window:

The Score Editor is divided into several sections:

  1. Toolbar

    Contains tools and settings.

  2. Status line

    Informs about the mouse time position, the mouse note position, and the current chord.

  3. Info line

    Displays note event information about a selected MIDI note.

  4. Extended toolbar

    Contains note value buttons and enharmonic shift buttons.

  • To open one or several parts in the Score Editor, select one or several tracks or any number of parts, and select MIDI > Open Score Editor.

    If you have selected parts on several tracks, you get one staff for each track. The staves are tied together by barlines and placed in the order of the tracks in the Project window.

  • To rearrange the staves, close the editor and in the Project window, rearrange the tracks. Then reopen the Score Editor.

Note

You can activate/deactivate the status line, the info line, the tools, and the filters by clicking Set up Window Layout on the toolbar and activating/deactivating the corresponding options.