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The Project Browser (Cubase only)
• You can sort events in the display by columns, by click-
ing the column heading.
For example, if you want to sort events by their start positions, click that
column heading. An arrow appears in the column heading, indicating that
events are sorted by that column. The direction of the arrow indicates
whether the events are sorted in ascending or descending order. To
change the direction, click the column heading again.
Importing files via the MediaBay
You can also import audio, video and MIDI files into the
Project Browser via the MediaBay using drag and drop.
Ö You can only import into existing tracks. This means, for
example, that a video track has to exist in the Project win-
dow prior to importing a video file in the Project Browser.
For more information about the MediaBay, see “The Media-
Bay” on page 311.
About the Sync Selection option
If the “Sync Selection” checkbox is activated (on the Proj-
ect Browser toolbar), selecting an event in the Project win-
dow automatically selects it in the Project Browser, and
vice versa. This makes it easy to locate events in the two
windows.
Editing tracks
Editing audio tracks
Audio tracks can have two “subitems”: Track Data and
Automation.
• The Automation item corresponds to the automation track in
the Project window, and contains the track’s automation
events (see
“Editing automation tracks” on page 481).
• The Track Data item corresponds to the actual audio track in
the Project window. It contains audio events and/or audio
parts, which in turn can contain audio events.
Note that if you have not performed any automation or
opened an automation track, the Browser will only contain
the audio data.
The following parameters are available for the different
items:
The list columns for audio events
Parameter Description
Name Allows you to change the name of the event. Double-click-
ing the waveform image to the left of it opens the event in
the Sample Editor.
File The name of the audio file referenced by the event’s au-
dio clip.
Start The start position of the event. If the event belongs to an
audio part, you cannot move it outside the part.
End The end position of the event.
Snap The absolute position of the event’s snap point. Note that
adjusting this value will not change the position of the snap
point within the event – instead it is another way of moving
the event!
Length The length of the event.
Offset This determines “where in the audio clip” the event starts.
Adjusting this value is the same as sliding the contents of
the event in the Project window (see
“Sliding the con-
tents of an event or part” on page 64).
You can only specify positive Offset values, because the
event cannot start before the start of the clip. Likewise, it
cannot end after the end of the clip. If the event already
plays the whole clip, the Offset cannot be adjusted at all.
Volume The volume of the event, as set with the Volume handle or
on the info line in the Project window.
Fade In
Fade Out
The length of the fade-in and fade-out areas respectively.
If you use these settings to add a fade (where there pre
-
viously was none), a linear fade will be created. If you ad-
just the length of an existing fade, the previous fade
shape will be maintained.
Mute Click in this column to mute or unmute the event.
Image Displays a waveform image of the event inside a gray box
corresponding to the clip. The image is scaled according
to the width of the column.