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Working with projects
• You can zoom the contents of parts and events verti-
cally, using the waveform zoom slider in the top right cor-
ner of the event display.
This is useful when viewing quiet audio passages.
• If you activate the option Quick Zoom in the Preferences
dialog (Editing page), the contents of parts and events will
not be continuously redrawn when you zoom manually.
Instead, the contents are redrawn once you have stopped changing the
zoom – activate this if screen redraws are slow on your system.
Zoom presets and cycle markers
The pop-up menu to the left of the horizontal zoom control
allows you to select, create and organize zoom presets.
These are useful if you want to toggle between different
zoom settings (e.
g. one where the whole project is dis-
played in the project window and another with a high
zoom factor for detailed editing). With this pop-up menu,
you can also zoom in on the area between cycle markers
in the project.
The upper part of the menu lists the zoom presets:
• To store the current zoom setting as a preset, select
Add from the pop-up menu.
A dialog opens, allowing you to type in a name for the preset.
• To select and apply a preset, select it from the pop-up
menu.
• The “Zoom Full” preset is always available. Selecting
this option 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
“The Project Setup dialog” on page 44).
• If you want to delete a preset, select “Organize…” from
the pop-up menu.
In the dialog that opens, select the preset in the list and click the Delete
button. The preset is removed from the list.
• If you want to rename a preset, select “Organize…”
from the pop-up menu.
In the dialog that opens, select the desired preset in the list and click the
Rename button. A second dialog opens, allowing you to type in a new
name for the preset. Click OK to close the dialogs.
The middle part of the pop-up menu lists any cycle mark-
ers you have added to the project:
• If you select a cycle marker from this menu, the event
display is zoomed in to encompass the marker area.
• You cannot edit the cycle markers in this pop-up menu.
For information on editing markers, see
“The Marker win-
dow” on page 109.
The Zoom history
Cubase maintains a history of recent zoom stages, allow-
ing you to undo and redo zoom operations. This way you
can zoom in several steps and then easily go back to the
zoom stage at which you started.
There are two ways to invoke Undo Zoom and Redo
Zoom:
• Use the items on the Zoom submenu on the Edit menu.
You can also assign key commands for these.
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To get an approximate reading on the level of the au-
dio events by viewing the waveforms, make sure this
slider is all the way down. Otherwise, zoomed wave-
forms may be mistaken for clipped audio.
Click here…
…to open the context
menu.
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Zoom presets are global for all projects, i. e. they are
available in all projects you open or create.
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Only the cycle markers you create in the current proj-
ect are available on the menu.