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Tutorial 1: Recording Audio
Creating a new project
In this section we are going to explain how to create a new
project, save a project and open a saved project.
When you first open Cubase AI an empty screen appears
before you. You need to either create a new project or
open an existing one.
To Create a New Project:
1. Let’s create a new project by selecting “New Project”
from the “File” Menu.
2. The Templates dialog box will open up.
Templates are discussed in the “File Handling” section of the Operation
Manual.
3. Choose “Empty”.
This will create a new project with nothing in it.
4. Click “OK”.
5. Cubase AI now wants to create a folder on the hard
drive so that your Cubase AI project file and all of its re-
lated files are stored in one safe place.
It is important that every project gets stored in its own folder. Having many
different projects stored in the same folder only leads to confusion later on.
6. Navigate to where you would like this project to be
created.
NOTE: You are not saving the project at this point! You are creating a
folder on the hard drive that your project will get saved into later. This will
be explained very shortly.
7. Click “Create” on the PC or “New Folder” on the Mac
to create a new folder for your project.
8. Give your new folder a name.
If your are going to name your project “My First Project” then you could
call this folder “My First Project” or “First Project”. What’s important here
is that you are creating a folder on the hard drive to store your project
into it. This folder should have a unique name that is different than any
other Cubase AI project you have created before.
9. Click “OK” on the PC or “Create” on the Mac.
Your project folder is now created on the hard drive!
10. Now click “OK” on the PC or “Choose” on the Mac.
11. You should be looking at your very first project in Cu-
base AI now, Congratulations!
If you look at the top of the window in Cubase AI (called the Project win-
dow) you’ll see the name of this project is “Untitled1”. Proceed further to
learn how to save your first project.
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You’re not done yet!
So far we’ve created a blank Cubase AI project. We
have a folder sitting on the hard drive but we haven’t
saved the actual Cubase AI project yet.
The name of the project