12.0
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- New Features
- Introduction
- Setting up Your System
- Audio Connections
- Project Window
- Project Handling
- Tracks
- Track Handling
- Adding Tracks via the Add Track Dialog
- Adding Tracks Using Track Presets
- Adding Tracks by Dragging Files from the MediaBay
- Exporting MIDI Tracks as Standard MIDI Files
- Removing Selected Tracks
- Removing Empty Tracks
- Moving Tracks in the Track List
- Renaming Tracks
- Automatically Assigning Colors to New Tracks/Channels
- Showing Track Pictures
- Setting the Track Height
- Selecting Tracks
- Deselecting Tracks
- Duplicating Tracks
- Freezing Multiple Tracks
- Organizing Tracks in Folder Tracks
- Handling Overlapping Audio
- Events Display on Folder Tracks
- Modifying Event Display on Folder Tracks
- Track Presets
- Parts and Events
- Events
- Parts
- Editing Techniques for Parts and Events
- Auditioning Audio Parts and Events
- Scrubbing
- Selecting with the Object Selection Tool
- Select Submenu
- Removing Events
- Event Movement Options
- Renaming Events
- Event Resize Options
- Splitting Events
- Gluing Events
- Pasting Events
- Duplicating Events
- Repeating Events
- Fill Loop
- Moving the Contents of Events
- Inverting the Phase of Audio Events
- Muting Events
- Exporting MIDI Parts as MIDI Files
- Range Editing
- Playback and Transport
- On-Screen Keyboard
- Recording
- Importing Audio and MIDI Files
- Quantizing MIDI and Audio
- Fades and Crossfades
- Markers
- MixConsole
- MixConsole in Lower Zone
- MixConsole Window
- MixConsole Left Zone
- MixConsole Toolbar
- Fader Section
- Channel Racks
- Adding Track Pictures to MixConsole Channels
- Adding Notes to a MixConsole Channel
- Applying Channel Colors to Channel Controls
- Channel Latency Overview
- Channel Settings
- Keyboard Focus in the MixConsole
- Audio Effects
- Direct Offline Processing
- Time Stretch Algorithms
- Audio Functions
- Sample Editor
- Hitpoints
- Tempo Matching Audio
- Audio Part Editor
- Pool
- Pool Window
- Working with the Pool
- Renaming Clips or Regions in the Pool
- Duplicating Clips in the Pool
- Inserting Clips into a Project
- Deleting Clips from the Pool
- Locating Events and Clips
- Searching for Audio Files
- Missing Files
- Auditioning Clips in the Pool
- Opening Clips in the Sample Editor
- Importing Media
- Exporting Regions as Audio Files
- Changing the Pool Record Folder
- Organizing Clips and Folders
- Applying Processing to Clips in the Pool
- Minimizing Files
- Converting Files
- Extracting Audio from Video File
- MediaBay and Media Rack
- Media Rack in Right Zone
- MediaBay Window
- Working with Volume Databases
- MediaBay Settings
- Automation
- VST Instruments
- Installing and Managing VST Plug-ins
- Track Quick Controls
- MIDI Remote
- Remote Controlling Cubase
- MIDI Realtime Parameters
- Using MIDI Devices
- MIDI Functions
- Transpose Setup Dialog
- Merging MIDI Events into a New Part
- Dissolve Part Dialog
- Repeating MIDI Events of Independent Track Loops
- Extending MIDI Notes
- Fixing MIDI Note Lengths
- Fixing MIDI Note Velocities
- Rendering Sustain Pedal Data to Note Lengths
- Deleting Overlaps
- Editing Velocity
- Deleting Double Notes
- Deleting Controller Data
- Deleting Continuous Controller Data
- Restricting Polyphonic Voices
- Thinning Out Controller Data
- Extracting MIDI Automation
- Reversing the Playback Order of MIDI Events
- Inverting the Order of Selected MIDI Events
- MIDI Editors
- Common MIDI Editor Functions
- Changing the Ruler Display Format
- Zooming in MIDI Editors
- Using Cut and Paste
- Handling Note Events
- Handling Several MIDI Parts
- Controller Display
- Controller Lane Setup Menu
- Controller Lane Context Menu
- Controller Selection and Functions Menu
- Create Controller Lane Menu
- Adding Controller Lanes
- Displaying a Different Controller Event Type
- Setting up Available Continuous Controllers
- Saving Controller Lane Presets
- Editing Velocity Events
- Pitchbend Controller Lanes
- Adding Poly Pressure Events
- Adding Continuous Controllers
- Continuous Controllers and MIDI Automation
- Line Tool Modes
- Controller Event Editor
- Auto Select Controllers
- Moving Events in the Controller Display
- Key Editor
- Key Editor Operations
- Inserting Note Events with the Object Selection Tool
- Deleting Note Events
- Drawing Note Events with the Draw Tool
- Modifying Note Values while Inserting Notes
- Drawing Note Events with the Line Tool
- Moving and Transposing Note Events
- Resizing Note Events
- Using the Trim Tool
- Splitting Note Events
- Gluing Note Events
- Drum Map Handling
- Editing Note Events via MIDI Input
- Step Input
- Score Editor
- Score Editor Operations
- Drum Editor
- Drum Editor Operations
- Drum Maps
- Common MIDI Editor Functions
- Chord Functions
- Chord Pads
- Editing Tempo and Time Signature
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- VST System Link
- Video
- Key Commands
- Key Commands Dialog
- Assigning Key Commands
- Searching for Key Commands
- Removing Key Commands
- Saving Key Commands Presets
- Loading Key Command Presets
- Resetting Key Commands
- Default Key Commands
- Add Track Category
- Audio Category
- Automation Category
- Chords Category
- Devices (Studio) Category
- Direct Offline Processing Category
- Edit Category
- Editors Category
- File Category
- Media Category
- MIDI Category
- Navigate Category
- Nudge Category
- Project Category
- Quantize Category
- Set Insert Length Category
- Tool Category
- Transport Category
- Window Zones Category
- Zoom Category
- Setting up Tool Modifier Keys
- Customizing
- Optimizing Audio Performance
- Preferences
- Index
New Features
The following list informs you about the most important improvements in Cubase and provides
links to the corresponding descriptions.
New Features in Version 12
Highlights
Sample Accurate Volume Automation
● The new Volume Automation Precision function allows for volume automation that is
100% sample accurate, regardless of the buffer size. You can set the number of samples
after which a new volume automation event is processed. The automation curve between
the processed events is interpolated. This smoothens transitions between automation
events and prevents sudden jumps which may lead to crackles. See Audio System Page.
Editing Workow Improvements
● You can now freeze/unfreeze several tracks at once. See Freezing Multiple Tracks.
● The new nudge grid options let you edit independently from the project grid. This allows
you to work with a musical Bars+Beats grid for all mouse operations while ne-tuning
positions and lengths of events and parts using Nudge key commands. See Setting up a
Snap Grid for Nudge Operations.
● You can now move event ends to the project cursor position. See Move Submenu.
● When resizing events with the Object Selection tool, you can now automatically adapt the
size of existing fades by using a tool modier. See Resizing Events with the Object Selection
Tool - Normal Sizing.
● You can now assign key commands to slip event content operations. See Moving the
Contents of Events.
● We have extended key-command-based operations for creating and adjusting range
selections. It is now possible to also increase/decrease the vertical direction to span range
selections across multiple tracks. This way, you can entirely rely on key command support
to adjust and move a range selection in all four directions. See Adjusting the Size of
Selection Ranges.
● All fade-related commands are now gathered in a dedicated Fades submenu in the Audio
menu. See Creating and Editing Fades with the Range Selection Tool.
MIDI Remote Integration
● MIDI controllers are essential to every music production setup and, in Cubase, integrating
them has reached a new level. Built around the new concept of MIDI remote scripts,
Cubase will automatically detect your device and map the controls. If there is no script for
your device yet, you can easily create your own with the MIDI Controller Surface Editor.
You can then conveniently connect controls and parameters with the Mapping Assistant.
See MIDI Remote.
New Performance Meter
● The Audio Performance window now offers realtime, ASIO-Guard, and peak indicators.
See Audio Performance Window.
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