Tablature options in Cubase

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Bear with me, this is all new and slightly scary haha. I have Cubase 15 Pro trial version, own 14 Pro. I assume the score editor is fairly simular between those 2

I have a guitar part I played myself, audio, lead stuff. Extraced the midi, all fine. Went into the score editor, changed notation to tablature. Now the piece is in Dm, played the pentatonic from mostly the 10th fret. Now the score is displayed as if I played it much lower on the neck (see attachment).

Question: is there a way to tell the editor the base note or base fret or something? So the score is printed from there?

I suppose when I changed to the 5th fret as a base position I can change that from that point on.

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you can edit on which string the TAB numbers should appear with the
”Cross to Staff Above/Below” command.
Sounds completely misleading…
It´s just another quite unuseable area in the new score editor anyway, because most guitar specific articulations are missing so far.
At least we can display the WahWah position. And they invented “Guitar Shake”.

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Thanks man, I tried but no luck yet. Asked chatgpt and that said:

“Move/Cross to Staff” only moves notes between linked notation staves (like the two staves in a piano grand staff).

  • In TAB view, the fret number display is just a rendering of pitch + tuning — Cubase doesn’t store fret positions separately like Guitar Pro or TuxGuitar do.

  • So you can’t tell it to prefer higher frets or change positions from here — the only control you have is string assignment.

:compass: To actually change fret positions:

You can do it manually this way:

  1. Open Score Editor → Settings → Tablature Settings.

  2. You can set string tuning and maximum fret range, but not automatic positions.

  3. Then, in the Score Editor, you can reassign notes to another string:

    • Select a note → right-click → Tablature → Move to String X (if available).

That’s how you’d get the same note moved up to a higher fret (on a lower string).

If your goal is to make Cubase or another program automatically prefer higher positions (e.g., 10th–17th fret range), that’s where TuxGuitar, Guitar Pro, or MuseScore with staff rules are much better — they can remap pitch to fretboard position algorithmically.

Would you like me to show you how to remap those frets automatically in TuxGuitar (for example, “shift all notes up one string / position to target 10th–17th fret”)?

How did you manage to do this?

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ChatGPT is mixing various versions of Cubase in its response, you’d have to point it to the latest version of the manual to get any sensible response.

Alternatively, look in the previous thread for some more detail, including the “Move To String” key commands: Score Editor guitar feature questions - #2 by StefanFuhrmann

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Interesting! So you can apply a move to string command. Also got the cross to below to work now. This is still quite labor intensive though, I still hope for a range you can set (between fret 5 and 16) in some program

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See also my reply here for some other suggestions of things that can be done in the current version Using Fishman Triple Play to create tabs in Cubase 14 pro - #11 by PaulWalmsley