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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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Working with track presets
Introduction
Track presets are templates from audio, MIDI or instru-
ment tracks that can be applied to newly created or exist-
ing tracks of the same type. They contain sound and
channel settings, and allow you to quickly browse, pre
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view, select and change sounds, or reuse channel set-
tings across projects.
Track presets are organized in the MediaBay (see the
chapter “The MediaBay” on page 206).
Types of track presets
There are four kinds of track presets (audio, instrument,
MIDI and Multi) and two kinds of VST presets (VST instru-
ment presets and VST effect plug-in presets). These are
described in the following sections.
Ö Track preset settings for volume and pan will be ap-
plied only when creating a new track from a track preset.
Audio track presets
Track presets for audio tracks include all settings that de-
fine the sound. You can use the factory presets as a start-
ing point for your own editing and save the audio settings
that you optimized for an artist you often work with as a
preset for future recordings.
The following data is saved in audio track presets:
• Insert effects settings (including VST effect presets)
•EQ settings
• Volume + pan
Instrument track presets
Instrument track presets offer both MIDI and audio fea-
tures and are the best choice when handling sounds of
simple, mono-timbral VST instruments. Use instrument
track presets for auditioning your tracks, or saving your
preferred sound settings, for example. You can also ex
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tract sounds from instrument track presets for use in in-
strument tracks, “Extracting sound from an instrument
track or VST preset” on page 225.
The following data is saved in instrument track presets:
• Audio insert effects
•Audio EQ
• Audio volume + pan
• MIDI track parameters
• The VST instrument used for the track
• Staff settings
• Color settings
• Drum map settings
MIDI track presets
MIDI tracks should be used for multi-timbral VST instru-
ments (not in Cubase LE). When creating MIDI track pre-
sets you can either include the currently set channel, or
the currently set patch. See “Creating a track preset” on
page 225 for details.
The following data is saved in MIDI track presets:
• MIDI modifiers (Transpose, etc.)
• Output + Channel or Program Change
•Volume + pan
• Staff settings
• Color settings
• Drum map settings