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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

Drum maps

About 276

Making settings 276

MIDI channel and output 277

Selecting 277

Setup dialog 278

Drum name lists 279

Drumstick tool 274

Duplicate

Events and parts 50

MIDI notes 262

Edit button

Audio channel strips 122

Audio track Inspector 30

MIDI channel strips 129

MIDI track Inspector 234

Edits folder 166

Enharmonic Shift 288

Envelope

Process 167

Bypassing 124

Making settings 123

Presets 125

Equal Gain

Crossfades 99

Equal Power

Crossfades 99

Erase tool

Project window 54

Events

Audio 47

Creating from hitpoints 189

Duplicating 50

Moving 50

Muting 54

Overlapping in Project window 50

Removing 54

Renaming 51

Resizing 52

Resizing with time stretch 53

Selecting 49

Selecting automatically with

project cusor 49

Sliding contents 53

Splitting 51

Export Audio Mixdown 297

Export audio mixdown 297

Audio engine settings 298

Channel Selection 298

File Naming 298

In realtime 299

Exporting

Markers 113

MIDI files 332

Extracting

Audio from Video 322

Audio from video 331

MIDI Automation 251

Fade handles 96

Fade In/Out functions 97

Fades

Auto fades 100

Creating 96

Editing in dialog 97

Presets 98

Processing 97

Removing 97

With Range Selection tool 96

Fill Loop 51

Filtering

MIDI messages 86

FireWire DV Output 318

Fixed Lengths 249

Fixed Tempo 291

Fixed Velocity 250

Flip

Stems 288

Folder parts 65

Folder tracks

Creating 64

Hiding/showing data 65

Moving tracks into 65

Muting and soloing 65

Working with 64

Frame count 304

Frame rates

Mismatch 319

Synchronization 305

Video 319

Freeze

Edits 171

MIDI Quantize 92

Tracks 136

VST instruments 150

FX channel tracks

About 136

Adding effects for 137

Mixing down to file 297

Routing sends to 138

Setting up 137

Gain 167

Generic Remote Device 230

Glue tool

MIDI editors 263

Project window 52

Score Editor 288

Groove quantizing 92

Group channels 128

About 28

Using effects 135

Hard disk

Considerations 18

Hardware setup

Control panel (Mac) 13

Control panel (Win) 13

Hitpoints

About 186

And tempo settings 188

Beats pop-up menu 187

Create events 189

Create markers 189

Create regions 184, 189

Detecting 186

Filtering 186

Slicing audio 188