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Working with projects
Zoom and view options
Zooming in the Project window is done according to the
standard zoom techniques, with the following special notes:
• When you are using the Zoom tool (magnifying glass),
the result depends on the “Zoom Tool Standard Mode:
Horizontal Zooming Only” option in the Preferences dialog
(Editing–Tools page).
If this is activated and you drag a selection rectangle with the Zoom tool,
the window will only be zoomed horizontally (track height will not change).
If the option is off, the window will be zoomed both horizontally and verti
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cally.
• When using the vertical zoom sliders, the tracks are
scaled relatively.
In other words, if you have made any individual track height adjustments
(see below), the relative height differences are maintained.
You find the following options are available on the Zoom
submenu on the Edit menu:
• If the “Zoom while Locating in Time Scale” option is ac-
tivated in the Preferences dialog (Transport page), you
can also zoom by clicking in the ruler and dragging up or
down with the mouse button pressed.
Drag up to zoom out; drag down to zoom in.
Bar Offset This works just like “Display Offset” described above, in
that it offsets the time positions in the ruler by a number
of bars, allowing you to compensate for the Start position
setting. The difference is that Bar Offset is only used
when the “Bars+Beats” display format is selected (see
“The ruler” on page 34).
Sample Rate The sample rate at which Cubase records and plays au-
dio. The order of the menu items depends on the sample
rates available for your audio hardware. Supported set
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tings are displayed in the upper part of the menu, non-
supported settings are displayed in the lower part. Re
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garding the sample rate, there are two possible scenar-
ios: Either your audio hardware generates the audio clock
signals itself or it is clocked externally, i.
e. receives sig-
nals from an external sample clock source (see “If your
hardware setup is based on an external clock source” on
page 14).
If the sample rate is generated internally, the following ap-
plies: When you select a sample rate non-supported by
your audio hardware (from the lower part of the menu), it
is highlighted in a different color and the corresponding
tooltip shows a warning. In this case you must set a dif
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ferent sample rate to make your audio files play back
properly. When you specify a project sample rate that
your audio hardware supports but which is different from
the current audio hardware sample rate, and you confirm
your settings by clicking OK, the sample rate setting of
the audio hardware is automatically changed to the proj
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ect sample rate.
Bit Resolution/
Record File
Type
When you record audio in Cubase, the files that are cre-
ated will be of this resolution and file type, see “Selecting
a recording file format” on page 77.
Stereo Pan
Law
Decides whether panning uses power compensation or
not, see
“About the “Stereo Pan Law” setting” on page
122.
!
While most Project Setup settings can be changed
at any time, you should set the sample rate directly
after creating a new project! If you change the sam
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ple rate at a later stage, you must convert all audio
files in the project to the new sample rate to make
them play back properly.
Setting Description
Option Description
Zoom In Zooms in one step, centering on the project cursor.
Zoom Out Zooms out one step, centering on the project cursor.
Zoom Full Zooms out so that the whole project is visible. “The
whole project” means the timeline from the project
start to the length set in the Project Setup dialog (see
above).
Zoom to
Selection
Zooms in horizontally and vertically so that the current
selection fills the screen.
Zoom to Selec-
tion (Horiz)
Zooms in horizontally so that the current selection fills
the screen.
Zoom to Event This option is available only in the Sample Editor (see
“Zooming” on page 180).
Zoom In Vertically Zooms in one step vertically.
Zoom Out
Vertically
Zooms out one step vertically.
Zoom In Tracks Zooms in on the selected track(s) one step vertically.
Zoom Out Tracks Zooms out the selected track(s) one step vertically.
Zoom Selected
Tracks
This zooms in vertically on the selected track(s) and
minimizes the height of all other tracks.
Undo/Redo
Zoom
These options allow you to undo/redo the last zoom
operation.