Cubase provides advanced options for formatting notes and rests.
The Score Editor window shows MIDI notes as a musical score. It is divided into several sections.
The Score Editor allows you to display any possible piece of music as a score, complete with all the necessary symbols and formatting. You can extract parts out of a full orchestra score, add lyrics and comments, create lead sheets, drum scores, tablatures, etc.
You can create scores by transcribing your MIDI recordings.
You can create scores by entering and editing notes in the Score Editor.
The Score Settings dialog is divided into several tabs that allow you to set up your score.
Cubase allows you to set up polyphonic voicing with up to eight voices. This can make music with multiple voices clearer and easier to read.
You can flip the direction and edit the length of note stems.
The Set Note Info dialog allows you to change the properties of all notes individually.
The Properties tab for note events in the right zone of the Score Editor allows you to change the properties of the selected note event.
You can set up the display of accidentals for all tracks in the project.
You can use Enharmonic Shift to change the enharmonic spelling of notes. This is useful if one or several notes are not displayed with the accidentals that you want.
You can change the shape of noteheads.
You can assign colors to noteheads.
You can copy the attributes and settings of one note and use them for other notes.
Cubase automatically groups notes under beams. You can determine how notes are grouped.
Tied notes are two or more notes that are tied together.
You can move notes graphically. This is useful if you want to change the layout without affecting the score or playback.
You can move rests manually.
You can set up voices to display cue notes.
You can convert regular notes to cue notes.
You can create grace notes by converting any note into a grace note. Grace notes do not affect the rest of the score display in any way.
You can edit grace notes.
You can convert grace notes to regular notes.
You can build tuplets by permanently changing the MIDI data of the notes.
If you recorded a tuplet and it plays back as you want it, but it is not displayed correctly, you can quantize the display.
The Tuplets dialog allows you to set up tuplets, triplets, etc.
Cubase provides a Symbols tab that holds specific symbols that you can insert in your score.
You can insert chord symbols into your score or have Cubase analyze selected notes and create chord symbols.
You can insert lyrics and other text types into your score.
Cubase automatically creates layouts when you edit a single track or a combination of tracks. Layouts are presets that contain settings for the layout layer. They are an integral part of the specific track combination.
Cubase can import and export MusicXML files.
Cubase provides advanced options for designing your score.
In Cubase, you can score for drums and assign unique noteheads to individual pitches and note values.
In Cubase, you can display staff notation in tablature, or you can create tablature from scratch.
In Cubase, you can display your score in rhythmic notation. This is useful if you want to focus on rhythmic information only, for example in cues or the conductor’s score. Rhythmic notation can also help you to create lead sheets.
In Cubase, you can play back repeats, project symbols, and mapped dynamics.
