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Tutorial 1: Recording Audio
Playback
We are going to learn how to play back audio in Cubase
AI. You might think this is very simple – just hit “Play”. It is
actually this simple but there are a few tricks to learn so
that you’ll be playing back what you want with precision.
To start playback
There are a few ways you can play back in Cubase AI.
• Click the “Start” button on the Transport panel.
• Press the space bar on your computer keyboard.
This toggles between start and stop.
• Press the [Enter] key of the numerical computer keypad.
• Double-click in the lower half of the ruler.
• Select the audio event called “Audio 01_01” and
choose “Loop Selection” from the Transport menu.
To stop playback
• Click the “Stop” button on the Transport panel.
• Clicking the “Stop” button twice moves the cursor to
the position in the project where you started playback.
• Press the space bar on your computer keyboard.
This toggles between stop and start.
• Press the “0” key of the numerical computer keypad.
Cycle playback
Cubase AI has the ability to loop or cycle a section of your
project. To set the cycle location you need to use the left
and right locator.
1. On the Transport panel, set the left locator to “1” and
the right locator to “5”.
This tells Cubase AI that we want to loop or cycle between bars 1 and 5.
Meaning we will have a 4 bar loop since the end of bar 4 is the beginning
of bar 5.
2. Make sure that the “Cycle” button is activated.
3. Click the Start button on the Transport panel and Cu-
base AI will play looping over and over until you click
“Stop”.
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Load the project called “Playback” found in the
“Tutorial 1” folder.
Double-click in
the lower half of
the ruler…
… to start
playback
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The default key command for this is [Shift]+[G]. This
is the quickest way to loop an audio event and start
playback!
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Don’t forget – you can set the locators to encom-
pass the selected event, turn on “Cycle” and begin
playback all by the key command [Shift]+[G].
The left locator set to “1”.
The right locator set to “5”.
Cycle activated.