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Playback and the Transport panel
Background
This chapter describes the various methods available for
controlling playback and transport functions in Cubase.
The Transport panel
The Transport panel contains the main transport functions
in Cubase, as well as many other options related to play
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back and recording.
The following sections can be shown on the Transport
panel, from left to right:
• Virtual Keyboard, see “The Virtual Keyboard” on page 73.
• Performance, this is related to the VST Performance window,
see
“About the VST Performance window” on page 19.
• Record Mode, see “Recording audio” on page 80 and “Re-
cording MIDI” on page 83.
• Locators, see “Setting the left and right locators” on page 70
and “About Pre-roll and Post-roll” on page 86.
•Jog/Scrub, “Playing back with the shuttle speed control” on
page 70 and “Project scrubbing – the jog wheel” on page 71.
• Main Transport, see below.
• Arranger, see “The arranger track (Cubase Elements only)”
on page 101.
• Master + Sync, see “Using the metronome” on page 87.
• Marker, see “Using markers” on page 108, “Editing tempo and
signature” on page 290, and “Synchronized operation” on
page 308.
• MIDI Activity, see below.
• Audio Activity, see below.
• Audio Level Control, see below.
The main transport controls
In the Main Transport area, you will find the basic transport
controls, as well as the time display options, see
“Setting
the time format in the Transport panel” on page 69.
Ö The main transport functions (Cycle/Stop/Play/Re-
cord) can also be shown on the toolbar. In addition, vari-
ous play options are available on the Transport menu.
The MIDI Activity, Audio Activity and Audio Level Control
sections
These sections are useful to monitor the MIDI and audio
input and output signals. The Audio Level Control section
furthermore contains clipping indicators and an output
level control.
Hiding and showing the Transport panel
The Transport panel is shown automatically when you
launch a new project. To hide or show it, select “Transport
Panel” on the Transport menu (or use the corresponding
key command – by default [F2]).
Changing the Transport panel setup
You can customize the appearance of the Transport panel
by right-clicking anywhere on the panel and selecting/de-
selecting the corresponding options on the context menu.
This is described in detail in the section “The setup con-
text menus” on page 336.
The numeric keypad
In the default Key Command settings, various Transport
panel operations are assigned to the numeric keypad on
the computer keyboard. The keypads are slightly different
on PC and Macintosh computers:
Numeric Key Function
[Enter] Play
[+] Fast Forward
[-] Rewind
[*] Record
[÷] (Win)/[/] (Mac) Cycle On/Off
[,] Return to Zero
[0] Stop
[1] Go to Left Locator
[2] Go to Right Locator
[3-9] Go to marker 3 to 9