Table of Contents
Additional Techniques for Designing Your Score
Cubase provides advanced options for designing your score.
Setting the Default Number of Bars per Staff
You can specify how many bars you want to display across the staff by default.
Setting the Number of Bars Manually
In Page Mode, you can set the number of bars across the page manually.
Number of Bars Dialog
The Number of Bars dialog allows you to specify and edit the number of bars across the page. When you change the number of bars, the program automatically optimizes the barline positioning according to the contents.

Number of Bars Dialog

The Number of Bars dialog allows you to specify and edit the number of bars across the page. When you change the number of bars, the program automatically optimizes the barline positioning according to the contents.

Note

This is only available in Page Mode.

To open the Number of Bars dialog, activate a staff, and select Scores > Advanced Layout > Number of Bars.

The following options are available:

Bars: Allows you to set the number of bars across the page.

All Staves: Adjusts the number of bars in all staves from the active staff.

Note
To set all staves in the whole project to the same number of bars, activate the first staff before clicking All Staves.
This Staff: Adjusts the number of bars in the active staff only.