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The Project window
Window Overview
The Project window is the main window in Cubase. This provides you with an overview of the project, allowing you to
navigate and perform large scale editing. Each project has one Project window.
About tracks
The Project window is divided vertically into tracks, with a
timeline running horizontally from left to right. The follow-
ing track types are available:
Project
overview
The event display, showing audio parts and events, MIDI parts, automation, markers, etc.
Inspector
Ruler
Status line
Toolbar
The track list with various track types
Info line
Track type Description
Audio For recording and playing back audio events and audio
parts. Each audio track has a corresponding audio channel
in the Mixer.
An audio track can have any number of automation tracks for
automating Mixer channel parameters, effect settings, etc.
Folder Folder tracks function as containers for other tracks, mak-
ing it easier to organize and manage the track structure.
They also allow you to edit several tracks at the same time,
see
“Organizing tracks in folder tracks” on page 64.
FX Channel FX channel tracks are used for adding send effects. Each FX
channel can contain up to eight effect processors – by rout
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ing effect sends from an audio channel to an FX channel, you
send audio from the audio channel to the effect(s) on the FX
channel. Each FX channel has a corresponding channel strip
in the Mixer – in essence an effect return channel, see the
chapter
“Audio effects” on page 131.
All FX channel tracks are automatically placed in a special FX
channel folder in the track list, for easy management.
An FX channel can also have any number of automation
tracks for automating Mixer channel parameters, effect
settings, etc.
Group
Channel
By routing several audio channels to a Group channel, you
can submix them, apply the same effects to them, etc. (see
“Using group channels” on page 128).
A Group channel track contains no events as such, but dis-
plays settings and automation curves for the corresponding
Group channel. Each Group channel track has a corre
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sponding channel strip in the Mixer. In the Project window,
Group channels are organized as tracks in a special Group
Tracks folder.
Instrument This allows you to create a track for a dedicated instrument,
making VST instrument handling easier and more intuitive. In
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strument tracks have a corresponding channel strip in the
Mixer. Each instrument track can have any number of auto
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mation tracks in the Project window. However, Volume and
Pan are automated from within the Mixer. For more informa
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tion on instrument tracks, see the chapter “VST instruments
and instrument tracks” on page 145.
MIDI For recording and playing back MIDI parts. Each MIDI track
has a corresponding MIDI channel strip in the Mixer.
A MIDI track can have any number of automation tracks for
automating Mixer channel parameters, insert and send ef
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fect settings, etc.
Marker Marker tracks display markers which can be moved and re-
named directly in the Project window (see the chapter “Us-
ing markers” on page 108). A project can have only one
marker track.
Track type Description