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Working with projects
Creating new projects
The Project Assistant dialog is opened by selecting the
“New Project…” command on the File menu. In this dialog
you can access recently opened projects and create new
projects, which can either be empty or based on a template.
The Project Assistant dialog will also open in the following
cases:
• If you launch Cubase with the “Show Project Assistant”
option selected on the “On Startup” pop-up menu in the
Preferences dialog (General page).
• If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] while launching Cu-
base.
Opening recent projects
The Recent category in the category bar of the Project As-
sistant dialog contains a list of recently opened projects.
When you select an item in this category, the Create but
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ton changes to “Open”, allowing you to open the corre-
sponding project. This list is similar to the list in the
Recent Projects submenu of the File menu.
Choosing a template
In the category bar of the Project Assistant dialog, the
available factory templates are sorted into the predefined
categories Recording, Production, Scoring, and Master-
ing. Furthermore, there is a More category which contains
the default project template (see “Setting up a default
template” on page 51) and all templates that are not as-
signed to any of the other categories.
When you click on one of the category items, the list be-
low the category bar shows the available factory tem-
plates for this category that were installed with Cubase.
Any new templates that you create (see “Save as Tem-
plate” on page 51) are added at the top of the corre-
sponding list for convenient access.
• To create an empty project that is not based on a tem-
plate, select the “Empty” entry in the More category and
click the Create button.
An empty project is also created if no template is selected in the cur-
rently shown category.
• You can rename or delete a template by right-clicking it
in the list and selecting the corresponding option on the
context menu.
• To open the folder in which the selected template is
stored in the Windows Explorer/Mac OS Finder, right-
click the template in the list and select “Show in Explorer”
(Win) or “Reveal in Finder” (Mac).
Choosing a project location
The options in the lower part of the dialog allow you to
specify where the project is stored.
• Select “Use default location” to create the project in the
default project location (as shown in the path field), and
click Create.
In the “Project folder” field you can specify a name for the project folder.
If you do not specify a project folder here, the project will reside in a
folder named “Untitled”.
Ö To change the default project location, simply click in
the path field. A file dialog opens, allowing you to specify a
new default location.
• Select “Prompt for project location” and click Continue
to create the project in a different location.
In the dialog that appears, specify a location and a project folder.
Category
bar
Template
list
Location
options
Open Other button