Making this post to highlight a few features I relied on in previous versions of Cubase’s Score Editor that seem to be missing or changed:
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There doesn’t appear to be a way to manually control the number of bars per system. Four bars per line is usually fine, but occasionally I’ll have a six-bar phrase and want that reflected visually in the layout.
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Markers no longer automatically insert double barlines. That was a powerful and important feature in my workflow.
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When selecting a key signature, the name (e.g., “D major”) is no longer displayed. Thankfully I know it’s two sharps, but having the name visible made quick selection much easier.
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Tempo changes from the master tempo track are now displayed in the score, and I couldn’t find a way to hide them without altering the actual tempo map.
In short, I had to revert to Cubase 13 to finish my project.
Overall, I’m glad to see a version of Dorico inside Cubase 15—but these essentials need refinement for it to fit my workflow.
Hopefully the right people see this. Cheers!
Hi,
I suppose you already found out that you can hide tempo’s in the score through score settings→interpretation?
Michel
And therein lies the developer’s dilemma.
yeah, but surely a lot could be improved in the score editor. I feel not many people use it so it has no great importance. too bad for people like me.
yes thanks, I found that. Despite the other things, I actually am really enjoying this new workflow.
New issue however: it looks like shift up and shift down no longer transpose an octave…? These key commands still work in key edit but not in score. Is this the case on your end? Any suggestions?
yeah, it does work but the short-cut key is not defined by default. In ‘key commands’ look for ‘up (larger step)’ and assign a key command to it. ‘up (larger step)’ really means an octave. Same for down an octave of course.
it’s in the ‘Nudge’ submenu in key commands.
Michel
There are in fact some ways to manually control this. The method is, instead of setting a fixed number of bars per system, add system breaks where needed. You should show signposts so that the system breaks are visible when you are editing, that way if you make a mistake in its location you can select and delete it.
The only downside is that if a system is overloaded, it will add extra system breaks in addition to the ones that you’ve specified. But in this event the space size is probably set too large which makes the notation too big, and you can reduce the space size and that will help deal with the overloading issue to get it back to only obeying your system breaks.
You can think of it like this: adding system breaks is like pressing ENTER/RETURN when typing text into a word processor program. It will give you a new line, but obviously if you type too much text to fit on a single line, it will “word wrap” to the next line even though you haven’t pressed ENTER again. If you need that text to fit on one line without wrapping you have to make the font smaller (or the page bigger) so that it will fit. It is the same idea as that.
many thanks, these little things make all the difference!