I’m a bit confused with the new notation program in Cubase, since there ist no manualö yet. Is there any replacement for the enharmonic change button, which used to be in the old version?
Hi, here is the link to the manual
Cubase Pro 14.0 Score Editor • Viewer • Steinberg
“Cubase automatically shows an accidental if necessary. It selects a sharp, flat, or natural, based on the key signature and the context. You can later respell notes so that they are shown as their enharmonic equivalents, with different accidentals.”
Thanks for your reply and the link. I should have said „german manual“. Yes, I know this explanation of the natural, sharp and flat buttons . But it does not help me. I am looking for the essential button of the OLD score editor, with which you could easily enharmonicly change the accidental, i. e. an a flat into a g sharp. With the above mentioned buttons you would change the a flat into an a sharp, which is not what I want. With these three buttons quick enharmonic changes are not possible, the procedure would be quite complicated and time consuming. Sibelius has also the mentioned easy function of quick enharmonical changes. So, where can I find the old button/function?
Thank you for your help!
Thank you for your reply! If I understand you correctly, this means, that the desired button doesn’t exist any longer/not yet again. Do you know, when a german version of the note editor manual will be published? Thanks a lot.
Ah! It’s already there! Thanks anyways! 
One question: On page 74 (english version) it says: “Drag a selection rectangle to select several notes.” When I do so, it happens that all the notes outside the rectangle are also selected. Is this a bug or am I doing somethig wrong? In the screenshot below I have only included the lowest note in the rectangle but all the notes are selected.
And one more question: How can I write a quintole? The editor misinterpretes my quintole as the thing below, but when I select the notes which are supposed to be a quintole and use the tuplet button (page 18 in the english manual) to choose “5:4” nothing happens, the notes remain as they are.
One more question (sorry for the flood of questions, but I’m in a big project, was caught cold by the new score editor, and now have to decide quickly how to create my opera score): In the old score editor there was a function for quantising rests. I can no longer find it. Instead of displaying demisemiquavers as desired and entered via MIDI, what you see in the screenshot appears. How can I change this?
The score editor uses the selection model of Dorico. Selecting the note stems will select all notes in the chord. This does create some situations where it can be ambiguous what gets selected when you drag a selection rectangle, as the rectangle can intersect the stem. In Dorico we have a number of functions such as ‘Select lowest note in chord’. We’ll think about if we can bring some of these functions over to Cubase in the future.
There are a few presets in the Logical Editor which should make it possible to select the lowest note in a chord. There’s already a ‘Deselect lowest notes in chord’ preset so you will be able to edit that.
For the 5:4 tuplet, if you have an existing rhythm then it might be easier to create a new tuplet in an empty bar. Create the total note length you want first (1/8 note?), then create the 5:4 tuplet. You can then copy and paste it to the play cursor position and the rhythms will be adapted to it
Regarding the rest quantization – can you show what the looks like in the key editor?
I also know the problem that several notes are selected at the same time, even though only one note (and not the stem) was clicked, and no rectangle was drawn with the mouse.
The internal recognition area of a note seems to be larger than the actual note head, which can also be seen when you select a single note: this is also marked if you click slightly outside the note head.
My current workaround is to briefly press the left and then the right arrow keys on the computer keyboard if multiple notes have been mistakenly selected.
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Thanks a lot for your instant replies! Regarding the first item: After I had sent my questions I found out for myself that if the rectangle covers the note stems, all the notes of the chord are marked. However, this is not always the case, and it is not clear why it is sometimes different. Here, for example, I drew a rectangle over all the lowest notes, and only these were marked, although the rectangle naturally also enclosed all the stems.
Sometimes, on the other hand, I draw a rectangle over three notes (with the complete note heads), but only one note is marked.
Since my main aim is to create an individual division into upper and lower staves for the chords of a piano or harp part, it doesn’t help me much to create a separate command in the Logical Editor. Thanks for the suggestion though! I’ll make the selection in the Key Editor, that seems to be the quickest way.
Regarding the tuplets: It’s a pity that it’s so relatively complicated. I assume that in future the score editor will recognise the tuplets. In the old score editor version, the reinterpretation of wrong triplets into tuplets was very quick and direct.
Regarding the quantisation of rests: this is what the said section looks like in the Key Editor:
The new Score Editor should automatically recognise 5:4 tuplets. Are you able to send me either the project, or an extract that shows the problem?
For the demisemiquaver problem, the Score Editor tries to interpret that sequence of very short notes in the cleanest way, and in general it tries to avoid rests. The default appearance for me is staccato semiquavers:
If you don’t want the automatic staccato detection then that can be turned off in Score > Instrument Settings.
If you want to make the editorial decision that you want those notes shown as demisemiquavers, then select the notes and press the demisemiquaver button on the toolbar. This sets the explicit notated length inside the note, and the score editor will use that:
