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Working with projects
• Select “Split at Cursor” from the Edit menu, Functions
submenu.
This splits the selected events at the position of the project cursor. If no
events are selected, all events (on all tracks) that are intersected by the
project cursor will be split.
• Select “Split Loop” from the Edit menu, Functions sub-
menu.
This splits events on all tracks at the left and right locator positions.
Ö If you split a MIDI part so that the split position inter-
sects one or several MIDI notes, the result depends on the
“Split MIDI Events” option in the Preferences dialog (Edit-
ing–MIDI page). If the option is activated, the intersected
notes will be split (creating new notes at the beginning of
the second part). If it is deactivated, the notes will remain
in the first part, but “stick out” after the end of the part.
Gluing events together
You can glue events together using the Glue Tube tool.
There are three possibilities:
• Clicking on an event with the Glue Tube tool glues it to-
gether with the next event on the track. The events do not
have to touch one another.
The result is a part containing the two events, with one exception: If you
first split an event and then glue the two sections together again (without
moving or editing them first), they become a single event again.
• You can select several events on the same track and
click on one of them with the Glue Tube tool.
A single part is created.
• When you hold down [Alt]/[Option] while clicking on an
event with the Glue Tube tool, this event will be glued to-
gether with all following events on this track.
You can change the default key command for this in the Preferences di-
alog (Editing–Tool Modifiers page).
Resizing events
Resizing events means to move their start or end positions
individually. In Cubase, there are three modes for resizing:
To select one of the resizing modes, select the Arrow tool
and then click again on the Arrow tool icon on the toolbar.
This opens a pop-up menu from which you can select one
of the options.
The icon on the toolbar will change, indicating the selected resizing
mode.
The actual resizing is done by clicking and dragging the
lower left or right corner of the event. If Snap is activated,
the Snap value determines the resulting length (see “The
Snap function” on page 45).
Normal sizing
Sizing moves contents
• If several events are selected, all will be resized in the
same way.
Resizing mode Description
Normal Sizing The contents of the event stay fixed, and the start or
end point of the event is moved to “reveal” more or less
of the contents.
Sizing Moves
Contents
The contents follow the moved start or end of the event
(see the figure below).
Sizing Applies
Time Stretch
The contents will be time stretched to fit the new event
length (see the separate section
“Resizing events using
time stretch” on page 64).
Resizing mode Description