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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
Index

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Index

Automation tracks

Assigning parameters to 162

Hiding and showing 163

Muting 163

Auto-Scroll 37

Marker window 110

MIDI editors 258

Project window 37

Sample Editor 178

Back up Project 42

Backup (.bak) files 42

Bank assignments 240

Beat Calculator 294

Bit resolution

Recording 77

Bounce (Export Audio) 297

Bounce Selection

Pool 203

Project window 54

Sample Editor 183

Brightness 339

Broadcast Wave files

Exporting 300

Recording 77

Busses

About 22

Adding 23

Mixing down to file 297

Bypass

Effect sends 139

Inserts 134

Channel Overview

Insert effects 134

Channel Settings windows

Customizing 336

Channels

MIDI 82

Chase events 72

Cleanup 43, 329

Clefs

Setting up 285

Click button 87

Clips, see “Audio clips”

Clock sources 305

Close project 40

Color tool

Project window 340

Colors

MIDI editors 259

Project window 340

Tracks 61

Conforming

Files 205

Connecting

Audio 11

MIDI 16

Constrain Delay Compensation 154

Context menus

Opening 9

Controller display

About 257

About lanes 265

Controller lane presets 267

Editing events 267

Editing velocity 270

Selecting event type 266

Controller lanes

Adding 266

Removing 266

Controllers

Deleting 269

Editing 267

Recording 84

Count-in 87

CPR files 40

Crop 56

Crossfades

Creating 98

Editing in dialog 99

Equal Gain 99

Equal Power 99

Presets 99

Removing 99

CSH files 42

Cut Time 56

Cycle

About 70

Cycle markers

About

109

Drawing 112

Editing with tools 109

Resizing 112

Using 109

Zooming 109

Cycle recording

Audio 76

MIDI 84

DC Offset

Removing 169

Delay compensation

About 132

Constraining 154

Delete

Audio files from disk 199

Continuous Controllers 249

Controllers 249

Doubles 249

Events in Project window 54

MIDI controllers 249, 269

MIDI drum notes 275

MIDI notes 263

Notes 249

Delete Overlaps

Mono (MIDI) 250

Poly (MIDI) 250

Device ports

Selecting for busses 23

Setting up 22

Disk meter 19

Display Quantize 284

Display Transpose

About 285

Dithering 135

Drawing

In Sample Editor 182

MIDI controllers 267

MIDI notes 260

MIDI parts 63

Drum Editor

Creating and editing notes 274

Muting drum sounds 275

Selecting drum maps 277