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Playback and the Transport panel
About Pre-roll and Post-roll
These items are described in the chapter “Recording”,
see “About Pre-roll and Post-roll” on page 84.
Changing the Transport panel setup
You can customize the appearance of the Transport panel
by right-clicking anywhere on the panel and selecting/de-
selecting the corresponding options on the context menu.
This is described in detail in the section “The setup con-
text menus” on page 471.
The numeric keypad
In the default Key Command settings, various Transport
panel operations are assigned to the numeric keypad on
the computer keyboard. The keypads are slightly different
on PC and Macintosh computers:
Operations
Setting the project cursor position
There are several ways to move the project cursor position:
• By using Fast Forward and Rewind.
• By using the Jog/Shuttle/Nudge control on the Trans-
port panel (Cubase only – see “The Shuttle Speed control
(Cubase only)” on page 63).
• By dragging the project cursor in the lower part of the
ruler.
• By clicking in the ruler.
Double-clicking in the ruler moves the cursor and starts/stops playback.
• If the option “Locate when Clicked in Empty Space” is
activated in the Preferences (Transport page) you can
click anywhere in an empty section of the Project window
to move the cursor position.
• By changing the value in any of the position displays.
• By using the position slider above the transport buttons
in the Transport panel.
The range of the slider relates to the Length setting in the Project Setup
dialog. Hence, moving the slider all the way to the right will take you to
the end of the project.
• By using markers (see “Markers” on page 54).
• By using playback options (see “Playback functions” on
page 64).
• By using the Arranger function (see “The Arranger
track” on page 96).
• By using functions on the Transport menu.
The following functions are available:
Ö If Snap is activated when dragging the project cursor,
the Snap value is taken into account. This is helpful for
finding exact positions quickly.
Ö There are also numerous key commands available for
moving the project cursor (in the Transport category in the
Key Commands dialog).
For example, you can assign key commands to the “Step Bar” and “Step
Back Bar” functions, allowing you to move the project cursor in steps of
one bar, backwards and forwards.
Numeric Key Function
[Enter] Play
[+] Fast Forward
[-] Rewind
[*] Record
[÷] (Win)/[/] (Mac) Cycle On/Off
[,] Return to Zero
[0] Stop
[1] Go to Left Locator
[2] Go to Right Locator
[3-9] Go to marker 3 to 9
Function Description
Locate Selec-
tion/ Locate
Selection End
Moves the project cursor to the beginning or end of the
current selection. For this to be available, you must
have selected one or more events or parts, or made a
selection range.
Locate Next/
Previous Marker
This moves the project cursor to the closest marker to
the right or left (see “Marker tracks” on page 31).
Locate Next/
Previous Event
This moves the project cursor forwards or backwards
respectively, to the closest beginning or end of any
event on the selected track(s).