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Playback and the Transport panel
• The “Use Inserts While Scrubbing” option in the Prefer-
ences (Transport–Scrub page) allows you to activate in-
sert effects for scrubbing with the shuttle speed control.
By default, insert effects are bypassed.
Ö You can also access the shuttle speed control via a
remote control device.
Project scrubbing – the jog wheel
The middle wheel on the Transport panel serves as a jog
wheel. By clicking and turning it to the right or left you will
move the playback position manually forwards or back
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wards – much like scrubbing on a tape deck. This helps
you pinpoint exact locations in the project.
• Note that the jog wheel is an “endless rotary encoder” –
you can turn it as many times as needed to move to the
desired location.
The faster you turn the wheel, the faster the playback speed. The original
playback speed is the fastest speed possible.
• If you click the jog wheel during playback, playback au-
tomatically stops and scrubbing starts.
• The “Use Inserts While Scrubbing” option in the Prefer-
ences dialog on the Transport–Scrub page allows you to
activate insert effects for scrubbing with the jog wheel.
By default, insert effects are bypassed.
Ö You can also use a jog wheel on a remote controller
for scrubbing.
Nudging the project cursor
The “+” and “–” buttons in the middle of the Shuttle/Jog
section allow you to nudge the project cursor position one
frame at a time to the right or left.
Options and Settings
The “Return to Start Position on Stop”
preference
This setting is found on the Transport page in the Prefer-
ences dialog (opened from the File menu under Windows,
or the Cubase menu under Mac OS X).
• If “Return to Start Position on Stop” is activated when
you stop playback, the project cursor will automatically
return to the position where recording or playback last
started.
• If “Return to Start Position on Stop” is deactivated, the
project cursor will remain at the position where you stop
playback.
Pressing Stop again will return the project cursor to the position where
recording or playback last started.
About track disable/enable
For audio tracks, the track context menu contains an item
named “Disable Track”. This shuts down all disk activity
for the track, as opposed to using Mute, which merely
turns down the output volume for a track. For example, if
you often record “alternative takes” you can easily build up
a large number of takes on different tracks. Even though
these tracks are muted, they are actually still “playing
back” from the hard disk during playback. Because this
puts an unnecessary load on your disk system, using “Dis
-
able Track” is recommended for such situations.
• Select “Disable Track” for tracks that you want to keep in
the project for later use but do not want to play back now.
The track color changes to indicate that the track is disabled.
• Select “Enable Track” from the track context menu to
re-enable disabled tracks.