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The Project window
The ruler
The ruler at the top of the event display shows the time-
line. Initially, the Project window ruler uses the display for-
mat specified in the Project Setup dialog (see “The
Project Setup dialog” on page 34), as do all other rulers
and position displays in the project. However, you can se-
lect an independent display format for the ruler by clicking
the arrow button to the right of it and selecting an option
from the pop-up menu (you can also bring up this pop-up
menu by right-clicking anywhere in the ruler).
• The selection you make here affects the ruler, the info
line and tooltip position values (which appear when you
drag an event in the Project window).
You can also select independent formats for other rulers and position
displays.
• To set the display format globally (for all windows), use
the primary display format pop-up on the Transport panel,
or hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] and select a display for-
mat in any ruler.
• If you use the “Timecode” or “User” options and the op-
tion “Show Timecode Subframes” is activated in the Pre-
ferences (Transport page), the frames will also display
subframes.
There are 80 subframes per frame.
Using multiple rulers – ruler tracks (Cubase only)
As described above, the Cubase Project window contains
a main ruler at the top of the event display, displaying the
timeline from left to right.
If needed, you can have several rulers in the Project win-
dow, by adding ruler tracks to the project. Each ruler track
contains an additional ruler.
• To add a ruler track, select “Add Track” from the Project
menu and from the submenu that appears, select “Ruler”.
A ruler track showing an additional ruler is added to the Track list.
A ruler track set to the display format “Seconds”
You can add any number of ruler tracks to a project, and
position them as needed by dragging them up or down in
the Track list. Each of the rulers can show a separate dis-
play format:
• To select a display format for a ruler track, click on its
name in the Track list and select an option from the pop-
up menu.
Note that ruler tracks are completely independent from the
main event display ruler, as well as rulers and position dis-
plays in other windows. This means that:
• Each ruler track in a project can have its own display format.
• Ruler tracks are not affected by the display format setting in
the Project Setup dialog (see “The Project Setup dialog” on
page 34).
• Ruler tracks are not affected if you set the display format glo-
bally with the primary time display in the Transport panel.
Ö Ruler tracks are affected by the option “Show Time-
code Subframes” in the Preferences (Transport page, see
above).
Option Positions and lengths displayed as
Bars+Beats Bars, beats, sixteenth notes and ticks. By default there
are 120 ticks per sixteenth note but you can adjust this
with the “MIDI Display Resolution” setting in the Prefer-
ences (MIDI page).
Seconds Hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds.
Timecode This format displays hours, minutes, seconds and frames.
The number of frames per second (fps) is set in the Project
Setup dialog (see “The Project Setup dialog” on page 34).
You can choose between 24, 25, 29.97 and 30fps or
29.97 and 30dfps (“drop frame”).
Samples Samples.
User Hours, minutes, seconds and frames, with a user defin-
able number of frames per second. You set the desired
number of fps in the Preferences (Transport page).
Time Linear When this is selected, the ruler will be linear relative to
time. This means that if there are tempo changes on the
tempo track, the distance between the bars will vary in
Bars+Beats mode.
Bars+Beats
Linear
When this is selected, the ruler will be linear relative to
the meter position – bars and beats. This means that if
there are tempo changes on the tempo track, there still
will be the same distance between bars in Bars+Beats
mode. If the ruler is set to a time-based mode, the dis-
tance between seconds will vary depending on the
tempo changes.