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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

Solo

Audio Part Editor 192

Folder tracks 65

MIDI editors 258

Mixer 119

Tracks 54

Solo Defeat 120

Speaker icon

MIDI editors 259

Speaker tool

Audio Part Editor 192

Project window 48

Sample Editor 181

Spectrum Analyzer 173

Splitting

Events 51

Range 56

Square mode

Automation 160

MIDI editing 268

Staff settings

Score display 283

Startup options 43

Static value line (automation) 157

Statistics 175

Status line

Drum Editor 273

Key Editor 256

Project window 33

Score Editor (basic) 282

Staves

Active staff 283

Split staves 284

Step Input 265

Stereo Flip 170

Stereo Pan Law 122

Strip Silence 173

Studio Connections 243

Studio Manager 243

Suspend Auto-Scroll 37

Swing

Quantizing 93

Synchronization

About 304

Operation (Sync mode) 308

Recording in Sync mode 76

Setting up 306

Speed references 305

Timecode 304

Timecode preferences 307

Timecode source 306

System Exclusive

About 279

Bulk Dumps 279

Editing 280

Recording parameter

changes

280

Tap Tempo 294

Templates 41

Default 41

Tempo

About 291

Calculating 294

Editing 292

Matching audio to tempo 185

Setting in Fixed mode 293

Tapping 294

Write definition to files 294

Thumbnails

About 319

Thumbnail cache files 320

Time display 69

Time formats 34

Time signatures

About 291

Editing 293

Time stretch (function) 170

Time stretching

Algorithms 175

Timecode

Standards 304

Synchronization 304

Tool modifier keys 347

Toolbar

Audio Part Editor 191

Customizing 336

Drum Editor 273

Key Editor 255

Pool 196

Project window 32

Sample Editor 177

Score Editor 282

Track controls

Customizing 337

Track list

About 29

Customizing 337

Dividing 66

Track presets

Previewing 223, 224

Removing 223

Track types 28

Tracks

Adding 61

Adding events 63

Audio channel configuration 77

Coloring 61

Disabling 64

Disabling/Enabling 71

Duplicating 64

Freezing 136

Moving

Naming 61

Record-enabling 75

Removing 61

Selecting 64

Soloing 54

Transferring

Projects and settings 342

Transport menu

Functions 68

Playback options 72

Transport panel

Customizing 336

Display format 69

Hiding and showing 68

Key commands 68

Overview 68