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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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Customizing
Background
The user can customize the appearance and functionality
of Cubase in various ways.
User configurable items described in this chapter are:
• Setup dialogs
Several parts of the user interface (toolbars, Transport panel, Inspector,
info lines and Channel Settings windows) provide a Setup dialog, where
you can configure which items of the respective window area or panel
are to be shown or hidden and where they are located – see
“Using the
Setup options” on page 336.
• Track list
The controls shown in the track list can be set for each track type – see
“Customizing track controls” on page 337.
• Appearance
The general look of the program can be adjusted – see “Appearance” on
page 339.
• Track and event colors
You can adjust which colors are used – see “Applying colors in the Project
window” on page 339.
This chapter also contains a section describing where
your preferences and settings are stored (see
“Where are
the settings stored?” on page 342), to help you transfer
your customized settings to another computer.
Using the Setup options
You can customize the appearance of the following
elements:
• Transport panel
• Info line
• Channel Settings window
• Toolbars
• Inspector
The setup context menus
If you right-click the Transport panel, the toolbars, the info
lines, or the Inspector, the respective setup context menu
opens. For Channel Settings windows, these options are
found in the dialog’s context menu, on the Customize View
submenu. Here, you can activate/deactivate elements as
desired.
The following general options are available on the setup
context menus:
• “Show All” makes all items visible.
• “Default” resets the interface to the default setting.
• “Setup…” opens the Setup dialog (see below).
If presets are available, they can be selected on the lower
half of the menu.
The info line setup context menu
The Setup dialogs
If you select “Setup…” from the setup context menus, the
Setup dialog opens. This allows you to specify which ele-
ments are visible/hidden and to set the order of the ele-
ments. You can also save and recall setup presets in this
dialog.