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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
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Index

Swing 93

Tuplets 94

Using groove presets 92

Quick Zoom 46

RAM 18

Range Selection tool 55

Creating fades 96

Realtime export 297

Reconstruct 201

Record file type 77

Record folder

Selecting 78

Record format 77

Record modes

Audio 81

MIDI 83

Record Time Max display 88

Record-enabling 75

Recording

Levels 12

RAM limitation 18

Start at left locator 76

Recovering recordings 81

ReCycle files 331

Regions

About 183

Auditioning 184

Create from hitpoints 184, 189

Creating 183

Creating from events 57

Creating with Detect Silence 173

Editing 184

Exporting as audio files 184

Removing 183

Remote control

Key commands 229

Setting up 228

Writing automation 229

Repeat

Events and parts 51

Loop 248

MIDI notes 262

Reset

MIDI 85

Mixer 125

Quantize 91, 93

Retrospective Record 85

Reverse (audio processing) 169

Reverse (MIDI function) 251

ReWire

About 325

Activating 326

Channels 327

Routing MIDI 327

REX files 331

Routing

Effect sends 138

Group channels 128

Ruler

About 34

Additional time scales 35

Ruler tracks 35

Sample Editor 179

Sample Editor

Audio clip information 179

Audition 181

Auditioning 181

Auto-Scroll 178

Info line 179

Inspector 179

Musical Mode 185

Opening 177

Overview line 179

Regions 183

Ruler 179

Show Audio Event (button) 178

Snap function 178

Tempo matching audio 185

Toolbar 177

Zooming 180

Sample rate 45

Externally clocked 14

Saving

Project as new version 41

Projects 40

Scissors tool

MIDI editors 263

Project window 51

Score Editor 288

Score

Displaying 283

Split staves 284

Staff modes 284

Scrubbing

Events in Project window 48

Events in Sample Editor 181

Project 71

Select tool

Show Extra Info 29

Selecting

Events in Project window 49

MIDI notes 261

Send effects (Audio) 136

Sends

Disabling 139

Shared copies 51

Show All Used Automation 157

Signal levels 78

Silence 170

Sine mode

Automation 160

MIDI editing 268

Slices

About 186

Creating 188

Snap

MIDI editors 259

Project window 35

Sample Editor 178

Zero crossings 37

Zero crossings (Sample

Editor) 178

Snap point

Setting for clips in Pool 202

Setting in Project window 35

Setting in Sample Editor 181

Snap to Zero Crossing

Audio Part Editor 194

Snap types 36