Menu Reference
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1 Menu Reference
Introduction Close This closes the active window. If the Project window is active, the corresponding project will be closed. This manual lists all main menu items in Cubase AI for quick reference. For any further information, please refer to the Operation Manual. Save This saves any changes made to the project since you last saved. The Save command stores the project under its current name and location.
Revert Preferences… This menu item allows you revert to the last saved version of a project. If any new audio files have been recorded since you last saved, you have the option of keeping or deleting these. Ö Under Mac OS X, the Preferences dialog is accessed from the Cubase AI menu. The Preferences dialog contains various settings and options. The dialog has several pages that you access by selecting items in the Explorer-like list on the left.
Edit menu Split at Cursor Undo/Redo This splits selected events at the cursor position. If no events are selected, all events on all tracks intersected by the cursor will be split. Cubase AI offers wide-ranging, multiple Undo, allowing you to undo virtually any action you perform. Split Loop • To undo the last performed action, select Undo from the Edit menu, or use the corresponding key command (by default [Ctrl]/[Command]+[Z]). This splits all events at the left and right locator positions.
Option Description Move to In Loop Selects all events that are partly or wholly between the left and right locator. The following functions are available from this submenu: From Start to Cursor Selects all events that begin to the left of the project cursor. Option Description Cursor Moves the selected event to the project cursor position.
Project menu Enlarge Selected Track This option can also be activated in the Preferences dialog (Editing – Project & Mixer page). When activated, the selected tracks in the Project window are automatically enlarged in height. Add Track Select a track type from the Add Track submenu to add a new track. Zoom Duplicate Track The following options are available on the Zoom submenu on the Edit menu: This will create a duplicate (copy) of the selected track.
Audio menu Pitch Shift This function allows you to change the pitch of the audio with or without affecting its length. You can also create “harmonies” by specifying several pitches, or apply pitch shift based on a user specified envelope curve. Process Basically, you apply audio processing by making a selection and selecting a function from the Process submenu. For details about the functions and parameters in the various processing dialogs, use the Help button in the corresponding dialog.
The submenu contains the following items: Events to Part Option Description This allows you to create a part from selected audio events. Calculate Hitpoints Invokes the hitpoint calculation in the Sample Editor. Create Audio Slices from Hitpoints Slices the event according to the hitpoints and adjusts the tempo of the loop to the current project tempo. Dissolve Part This menu item dissolves a selected audio part and makes any audio events it contains appear as independent objects on the track.
MIDI menu Quantize Ends The Quantize Ends function on the Quantize submenu will only affect the end positions of notes. Apart from that, it works just like regular quantizing, taking the Quantize popup menu setting into account. Open Key Editor This opens the Key Editor for the selected MIDI part(s) or track(s). This editor consists of a piano-roll type graphic interface, with the notes shown as boxes in a grid.
Functions Pedals to Note Length Legato This function scans for sustain pedal on/off events, lengthens the affected notes to match the sustain pedal off position, and then removes the Sustain Controller on/ off events. Extends each selected note so that it reaches the next note. You can specify the desired gap or overlap with the “Legato Overlap” setting in the Preferences (Editing page). Delete Overlaps (mono) This function allows you to make sure that no two notes of the same pitch overlap (i.e.
Logical Presets Media menu This submenu contains various presets that let you perform advanced “search and replace” operations on MIDI data. Open Pool Window Opens the Pool. Drum Map Setup… Import Medium… This is where you load, create, modify and save drum maps. The list to the left shows the currently loaded drum maps; selecting a drum map in the list displays its sounds and settings to the right. The Import Medium dialog is used for importing files directly into the Pool.
Conform Files… New Version This will change all selected files that have different file attributes to what is specified for the project, to conform to this standard. This allows you to create a new version of a selected clip. The new version appears in the same Pool folder, with the same name but with a “version number” after it, to indicate that the new clip is a duplicate. The first copy made of a clip will logically get the version number “2” and so on.
Locate Next Marker Start Record at Left Locator This moves the project cursor to the next marker position. If this is activated, the project cursor will jump to the left locator position and begin recording when you hit the Record button. If this is deactivated, recording will start directly from the current project cursor position. Locate Previous Marker This moves the project cursor to the previous marker position.
Devices menu Window menu Mixer Close This opens the Mixer. All audio, MIDI, FX channel and Group tracks in a project have a corresponding channel strip in the Mixer, as do Output busses and any activated VST Instruments. This closes the currently active window. If the active window is a Project window, the project will be closed. Close All This closes all windows including all open projects.
Help menu Documentation (Acrobat PDF format) Ö To be able to read these documents, you need to have the Acrobat Reader installed (included with Cubase AI). Operation Manual Opens the Operation Manual in Acrobat pdf format. Remote Control Devices Opens the separate pdf document describing the MIDI remote control devices supported by Cubase AI. Plug-in Reference Opens the separate pdf document containing descriptions of the included plug-in audio effects, VST instruments, MIDI effects and their parameters.
