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Tutorial 1: Recording Audio
2. Now click the “Record Enable” button on the track.
Setting the track to Record Enable lets Cubase AI know that you want to
record on this track and no other one. You can have many tracks Record
Enabled at a time.
3. In the Inspector, open the “Channel” tab.
This will display the channel fader for the selected track.
• Do the best you can to send the maximum amount of
volume to the audio inputs of your audio card before you
hear any distortion. Most audio cards show some kind of
level or volume indication. If yours doesn’t, don’t worry we
can change the amount here.
4. Move the fader up or down so that the volume is loud
enough without going into the red on the channel meter. If
you go into the red you may cause clipping or distortion.
You will see a line near the top of the channel meter –
make sure the level does not go over this line!
• Once the level is set, you are ready to record!
Recording bass guitar
1. Position the cursor at the beginning of the project.
This will make sure we start recording on bar 1.
2. Click the Record button to record the bass guitar.
Since the “Precount/Click” button is activated, we’ll hear two bars of
click before recording begins.
3. Click “Stop” when you are finished.
4. Turn off the Monitor and Record Enable buttons on the
track so that we don’t hear the input or record on the track
any more.
Congratulations! You have just recorded your first piece of
audio in Cubase AI. Move ahead to the next section to
learn how to play back audio.
Click here to display
the channel fader.
Do not allow the audio
level to go past this line!
This is the safe area
for recording