Steinberg Cubase 4.0 Notation - AES 2006

October 24, 2006
Cubase 4 Notation
Yet another cool feature in Steinberg's newest version of Cubase is its notation feature. Your ramblin' bass line might sound good in the speakers, but transcribing it to the actual notes will probably take a bit of cleanup to look presentable as a proper score. You can take that bass part, and with just a few minor tweaks have it sheet-music perfect. A bit of quantization here and there, plus a few other minor tweaks using the built-in presets, and your music is ready for the printed page.
Check out more info about Cubase 4features at Steinberg's official Cubase 4 website.

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FADI HAYEK: We've also implemented brand-new notation in this new version. So one of the challenges whenever you're doing notation is you sort of have to lose the original performance frankly in order to make the notation look correct on paper.

So -- Sorry for this delay. So, for example, I have a MIDI track over here which is actually supposed to be a bass line but MIDI, being a very little system, it just shows me exactly what I played. Now, with other notation programs, you would actually have to completely lose the transposition. You have to mess up your performance completely in order to make it look acceptable on the page. With this, I can apply these presets so that I can revoice this bass line. I can also set up the notes so they look cleaner. I can quantize them. I can also cleanup the entire page so that I can make it look exactly like a bass player would need it to look without actually having to alter my performance.

So again, real simple to do and not a lot of hassle to do it, and it allows notation to live very nicely right along with MIDI sequencing for the performer.

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