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Table Of Contents

Table of Contents
About this manual
- Welcome!
VST Connections: Setting up input and output busses
- About this chapter
- Setting up busses
- Using the busses
- About monitoring
The Project window
- Background
- Window Overview
- Operations
- Options
Playback and the Transport panel
- Background
- Operations
- Options and Settings
- The Virtual Keyboard
Recording
- Background
- Basic recording methods
- Audio recording specifics
- MIDI recording specifics
- Options and Settings
- Recovery of audio recordings after system failure
Fades, crossfades and envelopes
- Creating fades
- The Fade dialogs
- Creating crossfades
- The Crossfade dialog
- Auto Fades and Crossfades
The mixer
- About this chapter
- Overview
- Configuring the mixer
- The audio-related channel strips
- The MIDI channel strips
- The output channels
- Basic mixing procedures
- Audio-specific procedures
- MIDI-specific procedures
- Utilities
Audio effects
- About this chapter
- Overview
- Insert effects
- Send effects
- Editing effects
- Effect presets
- Installing and managing effect plug-ins
VST Instruments and Instrument tracks
- Introduction
- VST Instrument channels vs. instrument tracks
- VST Instrument channels
- Instrument tracks
- What do I need? Instrument channel or Instrument track?
- VST instruments and processor load
- Using presets for VSTi configuration
- About latency
Automation
- Introduction
- Enabling and disabling the writing of automation data
- What can be automated?
- Hints and further options
- Automation track operations
- Working with automation curves
- MIDI Part Data vs Track Automation
Audio processing and functions
- Background
- Audio processing
- Freeze Edits
The Sample Editor
- Background
- Window overview
- General Operations
- Options and settings
- AudioWarp: Tempo matching audio
- Working with hitpoints and slices
The Audio Part Editor
- Background
- Opening the Audio Part Editor
- Window overview
- Operations
- Common methods
- Options and Settings
The Pool
- Background
- Window overview
- Operations
Working with Track Presets
- Introduction
- Types of track presets
- Applying track presets
- Creating a track preset
- Creating tracks from track presets or VST presets
- Previewing MIDI, instrument and VST presets independently of tracks
Remote controlling Cubase AI
- Introduction
- Setting Up
- Operations
- The Generic Remote device
- Apple Remote (Macintosh only)
MIDI realtime parameters
- Introduction
- The Inspector - General handling
- The Inspector sections
MIDI processing and quantizing
- Introduction
- The Quantizing functions
- Permanent settings with Freeze MIDI Modifiers
- Dissolve Part
- Other MIDI functions
The MIDI editors
- Introduction
- Opening a MIDI editor
- The Key Editor - Overview
- Key Editor operations
- The Drum Editor - Overview
- Drum Editor operations
- Working with drum maps
- Using drum name lists
- The List Editor - Overview
- List Editor operations
- Working with System Exclusive messages
- Recording System Exclusive parameter changes
- Editing System Exclusive messages
- The Score Editor - Overview
- Score Editor operations
Editing tempo and signature
- Background
- Tempo and signature display
- Editing tempo and signature
Export Audio Mixdown
- Introduction
- Mixing down to audio files
- The available file formats
Synchronization
- Background
- Synchronization signals
- Synchronizing the transport vs. synchronizing audio
- Making basic settings and connections
- Synchronization settings
- Sync Options
- Working with VST System Link
- Preparations
- Activating VST System Link
- Application examples
Video
- Background
- Before you start
- Operations
File handling
- Working with Projects
- Importing audio
- Exporting and importing standard MIDI files
Customizing
- Background
- Using the Setup options
- Customizing track controls
- Appearance
- Applying track and event colors
- Where are the settings stored?
Key commands
- Introduction
- Setting up key commands
- Setting up tool modifier keys
- The default key commands
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Editing tempo and signature

The toolbar

The toolbar contains various tools and settings:

• The tools for Object Selection, Erase, Zoom and Draw

are used in the same way as in other editors. The Snap

and Autoscroll functions also work exactly like in the

Project window.

Note that in the Tempo Track Editor, the Snap function affects tempo

events only. Time signature events always snap to the beginning of bars.

• The info line in the Tempo Track Editor allows you to

change settings for selected time signature events, and

the type and tempo of selected tempo curve points.

• The ruler in the Tempo Track Editor shows the timeline,

and is similar to the ruler in the Project window. See “The

ruler” on page 21 for details.

• The area below the ruler shows time signature events.

• The main display shows the tempo curve (or, if fixed

tempo mode is selected, the fixed tempo – see “Setting

the fixed tempo” on page 224). To the left of the display

you will find a tempo scale to help you quickly locate the

desired tempo.

Note that the vertical “grid lines” in the tempo curve display correspond

to the display format selected for the ruler.

Editing tempo and signature

Editing the tempo curve

Adding tempo curve points

1. Use the “Insert curve” pop-up menu in the toolbar of the

Tempo Track Editor to select whether you want the tempo

to change gradually from the previous curve point to the new

one (“Ramp”) or change instantly to the new value (“Jump”).

You can also set this to Automatic. In this case, the types of existing tempo

curve points will be used when inserting new points at the same position.

2. Select the Pencil tool.

3. Click and drag in the tempo curve display to draw a

tempo curve.

When you click, the tempo display in the toolbar shows the tempo value. If

Snap is activated on the toolbar, this determines at which time positions

you can insert tempo curve points, see “The Snap function” on page 40.

• You can also click on the tempo curve with the Arrow

tool.

This adds a single point with each click.

Tools

Activate

Tempo

Track

Autoscroll

Snap on/off

Show Info

Curve type for new

tempo events

The selected tempo

Snap pop-up

This section assumes that you are working in tempo

track mode, i.e. the Tempo button must be activated

on the Transport panel.

Insert curve set to “Ramp” Insert curve set to “Jump”