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Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- About this manual
- Setting up your system
- VST Connections
- The Project window
- 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
- Playback and the Transport panel
- Recording
- Quantizing MIDI and audio
- Fades and crossfades
- The arranger track (Cubase Elements only)
- Using markers
- The Mixer
- Audio effects
- VST instruments and instrument tracks
- Automation
- Audio processing and functions
- The Sample Editor
- The Audio Part Editor
- The Pool
- The MediaBay
- Working with track presets
- Remote controlling Cubase
- MIDI realtime parameters
- Using MIDI devices
- MIDI processing
- 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
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- Video
- ReWire (not in Cubase LE)
- File handling
- Customizing
- Key commands
- Index
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The MediaBay
Introduction
One of the biggest challenges in typical computer-based music production environments is how to manage the ever-
growing number of plug-ins, instruments, presets, etc. from multiple sources. Cubase features an efficient database for
media file management that allows you to handle all your media files from within your sequencer program.
The MediaBay is divided into several sections:
• Define Locations – Here, you can create “presets” for locations
on your system that you want to scan for media files, see
“Defin-
ing Locations” on page 210.
• Locations – Here, you can switch between the previously de-
fined Locations.
• Filters – Here, you can filter the Results list using an attribute
filter, see
“The Filters section” on page 215.
• Results – Here, all found media files are displayed. You can
also filter the list and perform text searches, see
“The Results
list” on page 211.
• Previewer – This section allows you to preview the files shown
in the Results list, see “Previewing files” on page 213.
Accessing the MediaBay
To open the MediaBay, select the MediaBay command on
the Media menu. You can also use the corresponding key
command (by default F5).
Ö By default, the Define Locations section, the Locations
section, the Filters section, the Results list and the Pre
-
viewer section are shown.
The Previewer section
The Results list
The Define
Locations
section
The Filters section
The Locations section