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The MediaBay
5. Click OK.
The new attribute is added to the list of available attributes and will be
displayed in the Attribute Inspector and the Results list.
• To remove a user attribute, select it in the attribute list
and click the “Remove User Attribute” button (the “-” sign).
The attribute is removed from any attribute list.
• Cubase recognizes all user attributes that are included
in media files. For example, if you load content from an-
other user, who has assigned his own user tags to the
files, these tags are also shown in the MediaBay.
The Loop Browser, Sound Browser,
and Mini Browser windows
The Loop Browser, Sound Browser, and Mini Browser
items on the Media menu open different “views” of the
MediaBay. The Loop Browser is preconfigured for quickly
browsing your “loops”, i.
e. audio files, MIDI loops, and
pattern banks. Similarly, the Sound Browser is set up for
you to be able to quickly search the desired sound, with-
out having to configure the window. By default, it is set to
display track presets and plug-in presets. The Mini Brow-
ser is very small, which makes it perfect to be placed
along instruments like LoopMash or Groove Agent One.
These Browser windows offer the same functions as the
MediaBay, i.
e. you can specify different browse locations,
define searches, set up the available panes, etc., as de-
scribed previously in this chapter.
Preferences
In the Preferences dialog in Cubase, you can find options
and settings that control the global behavior of the pro-
gram. The Preferences dialog contains a special Media-
Bay page. These settings are also available from within the
MediaBay.
To open the Preferences pane for the MediaBay, proceed
as follows:
1. Click the MediaBay Preferences button in the lower
left corner of the window.
• A transparent pane appears, covering the window. In
the center of it is a gray area where the available prefer-
ences for the Locations section and the Results list are
displayed.
2. Configure the MediaBay to your liking by activating/
deactivating the options.
The following options are available in the Locations sec-
tion:
The following options are available in the Results section:
Option Description
Show Managed
Locations Only
Activate this to hide all folders that are not scanned
for files. This will keep the tree view in the Define Lo
-
cations section less cluttered.
Use Current
Selection as Base
Location
Activate this to show only the selected folder and its
subfolders. To switch back to the display of all folders,
deactivate this option.
Scan Folders Only
when MediaBay is
Open
When this is activated, Cubase only scans for media
files when the MediaBay window is open.
When this is deactivated, the folders are scanned in
the background even when the MediaBay window is
closed. However, Cubase will never scan folders
while playing back or recording.
Option Description
Maximum
Items in
Results List
Use this parameter to specify the maximum number of
files that are displayed in the Results list. This avoids un
-
manageably long lists of files.
Note that the MediaBay does not warn you if the maxi-
mum number of files has been reached and there might
be situations where a certain file you were looking for
could not be found, because the maximum number of files
was reached.
Allow Editing
in Results List
When this is activated, you can also edit attributes in the
Results list. When this option is deactivated, editing can
only be done in the Attribute Inspector.