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Table Of Contents

Table of Contents
About this manual
- Welcome!
Setting up your system
- Setting up audio
- Setting up MIDI
- Connecting a synchronizer
- Setting up video
- Optimizing audio performance
VST Connections
- About this chapter
- The VST Connections window
- Setting up busses
- Routing
- About monitoring
- Editing operations
The Project window
- Window Overview
- The track list
- The Inspector
- The toolbar
- The status line
- The info line
- The overview line
- The ruler
- The Snap function
- Auto-Scroll
Working with projects
- Creating new projects
- Opening projects
- Closing projects
- Saving projects
- The Archive and Backup functions
- Startup Options
- The Project Setup dialog
- Zoom and view options
- Audio handling
- Auditioning audio parts and events
- Scrubbing audio
- Editing parts and events
- Range editing
- Region operations
- The Edit History dialog
- The Preferences dialog
Working with tracks
- Setting up tracks
- Editing tracks
- Organizing tracks in folder tracks
- Dividing the track list
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
Quantizing MIDI and audio
- Introduction
- Quantize functions
- Advanced Quantize functions
- The Quantize Panel
Fades and crossfades
- Creating fades
- The Fade dialogs
- Creating crossfades
- The Crossfade dialog
- Auto fades and crossfades
The arranger track (Cubase Elements only)
- Introduction
- Setting up the arranger track
- Working with arranger events
- Flattening the arranger chain
- Live mode
- Arranging your music to video
Using markers
- Introduction
- The Marker window
- The marker track
- Marker key commands
- Exporting and importing markers
The Mixer
- Overview
- Configuring the Mixer
- Basic mixing procedures
- Audio-specific procedures
- Routing
- 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 (not in Cubase LE)
- Instrument tracks
- What do I need? Instrument channel or instrument track?
- Instrument Freeze
- VST instruments and processor load
- Using presets for VSTi configuration
- About latency
Automation
- Introduction
- Working with automation curves
- Enabling and disabling the writing of automation data
- Writing automation data
- Editing automation events
- Automation track operations
- MIDI part data vs. track automation
- Hints and further options
Audio processing and functions
- Background
- Audio processing
- Freeze Edits
- Detect Silence
- The Spectrum Analyzer
- Statistics
- About time stretch and pitch shift algorithms
The Sample Editor
- Window overview
- General functions
- Warping audio
- Working with hitpoints and slices
The Audio Part Editor
- Background
- Opening the Audio Part Editor
- Window overview
- Operations
- Options and Settings
The Pool
- Background
- Window overview
- Operations
The MediaBay
- Introduction
- Working with the MediaBay
- The Define Locations section
- The Locations section
- The Results list
- Previewing files
- The Filters section
- The Loop Browser and Sound Browser windows
- Preferences
- Key commands
- Working with MediaBay-related windows
- Working with Volume databases
Working with track presets
- Introduction
- Types of track presets
- Applying track presets
- Creating a track preset
- Creating tracks from track presets or VST presets
Remote controlling Cubase
- Introduction
- Setting Up
- Operations
- The Generic Remote device
- Apple Remote (Macintosh only)
MIDI realtime parameters
- Introduction
- The Inspector – general handling
- The Inspector sections
Using MIDI devices
- Background
- MIDI devices – general settings and patch handling
- About Studio Connections
MIDI processing
- Introduction
- Making your settings permanent
- Dissolve Part
- Repeat Loop
- 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
- Working with SysEx messages
- Recording SysEx parameter changes
- Editing SysEx messages
- The Score Editor – Overview
- Score Editor operations
Editing tempo and signature
- Background
- Tempo and signature display
- Editing tempo and signature
- The Beat Calculator
- Adjusting the audio to the project tempo
Export Audio Mixdown
- Introduction
- Mixing down to audio files
- The Export Audio Mixdown dialog
- The available file formats
Synchronization
- Background
- Timecode (positional references)
- Clock sources (speed references)
- The Project Synchronization Setup dialog
- Synchronized operation
- Working with VST System Link
- Activating VST System Link
Video
- Before you start
- Preparing a video project in Cubase
- Video files in the Project window
- Playing back video
- Editing video
- Extracting audio from a video file
- Replacing the audio in a video file
ReWire (not in Cubase LE)
- Introduction
- Launching and quitting
- Activating ReWire channels
- Using the transport and tempo controls
- How the ReWire channels are handled in Cubase
- Routing MIDI via ReWire2
- Considerations and limitations
File handling
- Importing audio
- Exporting and importing standard MIDI files
- Exporting and importing MIDI loops
Customizing
- Background
- Using the Setup options
- Customizing track controls
- Appearance
- Applying colors in the Project window
- 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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The Pool

Background

Every time you record on an audio track, a file is created

on your hard disk. A reference to this file – a clip – is also

added to the Pool. Two general rules apply to the Pool:

• All audio and video clips that belong to a project are

listed in the Pool.

• There is a separate Pool for every project.

The way the Pool displays folders and their contents is

similar to the way the Mac OS X Finder and the Windows

Explorer display folders and lists of files.

In the Pool you can, among other things, perform the fol-

lowing operations:

Operations that affect files on disk

• Importing clips (audio files can automatically be copied and/or

converted)

• Converting file formats

• Renaming clips (this will also rename the referenced files on

disk) and regions

• Deleting clips

• Preparing file archives for backup

• Minimizing files

Operations that only affect clips

• Copying clips

• Auditioning clips

• Organizing clips

• Applying audio processing to clips

Opening the Pool

You can open the Pool in any of the following ways:

• By clicking the “Open Pool Window” button on the

Project window toolbar.

If this icon is not visible, you need to activate the “Media & Mixer Windows”

option on the toolbar context menu first.

• By selecting “Pool” on the Project menu or “Open Pool

Window” on the Media menu.

• By using a key command – by default [Ctrl]/[Com-

mand]-[P].

The content of the Pool is divided into the following main

folders:

• The Audio folder

This contains all audio clips and regions currently in the project.

• The Video folder

This contains all video clips currently in the project.

• The Trash folder

Unused clips can be moved into the Trash folder for later permanent re-

moval from the hard disk.

These folders cannot be renamed or deleted from the

Pool, but any number of subfolders can be added (see

“Organizing clips and folders” on page 204).

Window overview

Toolbar overview

The info line

Click the “Show Info” button on the toolbar to show or

hide the info line at the bottom of the Pool window. It

shows the following information:

• Audio Files – the number of audio files in the Pool

• Used – the number of audio files in use

• Total size – the total size of all audio files in the Pool

• External Files – the number of files in the Pool that do not re-

side in the project folder (e. g. video files)

Audio folder: contains clips and regions

Trash folder Video folder Waveform image

Toolbar

Open/Close all

folders

View/Attributes

pop-up menu

Show Info

button

Project Folder

path

Pool Record

Folder path

Audition, Audition Loop,

and Volume

Import and

Search buttons