About tied notes

Sometimes, notes are displayed as two or more notes tied together. Generally, there are three different occasions when this happens:

• When a note is of an “uneven” length that cannot be displayed without tying together two or more notes of different note values.

• When a note crosses a bar line.

• When a note crosses a “group line” within a bar.

The last case requires some explanation: Cubase uses a “cutting mechanism” that automatically creates tied notes depending on the length and position of the notes. For example, a quarter note is cut in two and tied if it crosses a half note beat, and an eighth note is cut in two and tied if it crosses a quarter note beat:

1. This quarter note is cut.

2. This eighth note is cut.

However, this is not always what you want. There are three ways to affect the cutting mechanism: