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The Pool
Locate missing files
1. Select “Find Missing Files…” from the Media or con-
text menu.
The Resolve Missing Files dialog opens.
2. Decide if you want the program to try to find the file for
you (Search), if you want to do it yourself (Locate) or if you
want to specify in which directory the program should
search for the file (Folder).
• If you select Locate, a file dialog opens, allowing you to
locate the file manually.
Select the file and click “Open”.
• If you select Folder, a dialog opens to let you specify the
directory in which the missing file can be found.
This might be the preferred method if you have renamed or moved the
folder containing the missing file, but the file still has the same name. Once
you select the correct folder, the program finds the file and you can close
the dialog.
• If you select Search, a dialog opens to let you specify
which folder or disk should be scanned by the program.
Click the Search Folder button, select a directory or a disk and click the
Start button. If found, select the file from the list and click “Accept”.
Afterwards Cubase AI tries to map all other missing files automatically.
Reconstructing missing edit files
If a missing file cannot be found (e.g. if you have acciden-
tally deleted it from the hard disk), it will normally be indi-
cated with a question mark in the Status column in the
Pool. However, if the missing file is an edit file (a file cre-
ated when you process audio, stored in the Edits folder
within the project folder), it may be possible for the pro-
gram to reconstruct it by recreating the editing to the orig-
inal audio file.
Proceed as follows:
1. Open the Pool and locate the clip(s) for which files are
missing.
2. Check the Status column – if it says “Reconstruct-
ible”, the file can be reconstructed by Cubase AI.
3. Select the reconstructible clips and select “Recon-
struct” from the Media menu.
The editing is performed and the edit files are recreated.
Removing missing files from the Pool
If the Pool contains audio files that cannot be found or re-
constructed, you may want to remove these. For this, select
“Remove Missing Files” from the Media or context menu.
This will remove all missing files from the Pool as well as the
corresponding events from the Project window.
Auditioning clips in the Pool
There are three ways to audition clips in the Pool:
• By using key commands.
If you activate the “Playback Toggle triggers Local Preview” option in the
Preferences (Transport page), you can use [Space] to audition. This is
the same as clicking the Audition icon on the toolbar.
• By selecting a clip and activating the Audition button.
The whole clip will play back, unless you stop playback by clicking the
Audition button again.
• By clicking somewhere in the waveform image for a clip.
The clip will play from the position in the waveform you click until the end
of the clip, unless you stop playback by clicking the Audition button, or
by clicking anywhere else in the Pool window.
Click in the waveform image to audition a clip.
The audio is routed directly to the Main Mix (the default
output) bus, bypassing the audio channel’s settings, ef-
fects and EQs.
Ö You can adjust the auditioning level with the miniature
level fader on the toolbar. This does not affect the regular
playback level.