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Tutorial 1: Recording Audio
3. Click on the new track you’ve created and make sure
the Inspector is shown.
The Inspector allows us to see and manipulate a lot of information for the
selected track.
4. Make sure that “Mono In” is selected for the audio
track’s input and that “Stereo Out” is selected for the au-
dio tracks output.
You may have different inputs and outputs based on your audio hard-
ware. See the chapter “VST Connections” in the Operation Manual for
more detailed information. By setting “Mono In”, we will be able to record
the audio from the left input of our audio card into a track in Cubase AI.
Setting the output to “Stereo Out” allows us to hear what we are record-
ing.
Turning on the metronome click
We’ll want to have a click or metronome play in the back-
ground as we record the bass guitar so that what we
record aligns with the bars and beats in Cubase AI.
1. Activate the “Metronome/Click” button on the Trans-
port panel.
2. If you would like a two bar count in before you record,
also activate the “Precount/Click” button.
3. We now need to set the speed or the tempo of our
project. This will directly affect how fast the click plays.
You can set the tempo just below the click.
We have a setting of 125 which means 125 BPM (beats per minute).
Setting levels
We have a bass guitar playing through an amplifier with a
microphone in front of the amplifier’s speaker. This micro-
phone is plugged directly into the Steinberg MI|4 micro-
phone input. We have set the level on the MI|4 so that we
have enough volume without clipping.
1. Clicking the Monitor button will allow us to hear the
bass guitar.
You should see and hear the audio coming in to the right of the track.
The Inspector
Click to open the Inspector
Audio coming into this track