Hi! I’ve recently moved from Cubase 9 to Cubase 12, but only because I had to, on account of the changed licensing system. I work mainly in score editor. In Cubase 9, if I wanted to change time signature I used the “Time Signature” symbol palette which would open out to let me choose any time signature and any grouping. Now the palette shows only 8 time signatures. The one I want just now - 2/4 (not exactly an unusual signature) - is not one of them, and the palette doesn’t open out as before to enable me to select it.
According to the manual, I now have to create a signature track in my project and write the changed time signature in there. This means I have to leave my score editor and go to the project window. In addition, visualizing where to put the time signature on the time track is much less intuitive than clicking in the score at the bar I want the signature to be.
The manual also suggests that this change can be made on the transport panel, but I can’t see where that might be.
What is the rationale for making something that was so simple much more complicated? Is there some advantage that I’m missing?
Only the ones shown can be selected, and not edited. I can now see how to do it from the transport bar, but I don’t understand why Steinberg has made it more complicated than it was. If there was a way to create the missing time signatures and add them to the Time Signatures palette, that would be great, but I can’t see how to do that.
Thank you, r.u. sirius. I know I can do that, but, as I explained, this is a less intuitive (for me) way of doing it. My question was why has Steinberg removed a very useful function (i.e. being able to insert ANY time signature in the score editor) in this edition of Cubase Pro… and it now appears that they have reinstated it in Cubase 15, if I have understood Martin correctly.
Thank you, Martin! That works, and is only slightly less practical than being able to choose the right time signature straight away. Something that should have occurred to me… but didn’t!
