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Tutorial 4: Mixing and Effects

3. Click the “Show/Hide Automation” button at the far

left of the track.

You may need to hover your mouse over the far left bottom area until you

see the button appear as this is only shown when you need it. Note that

in Cubase AI there is only one automation subtrack for each track.

4. Select the Pencil tool.

5. In the subtrack that appears below the audio event

use the “Draw” tool to draw in automation so that it resem-

bles a fade in.

6. You can also use the “Line” tool to draw in automation

in a straight line. Perfect for fade in automation.

7. Listen to the fade in automation we created.

• You may have noticed that when we used the Pencil

tool to place in automation, the “R” button (Read Enable)

for the track became highlighted. This means that the au-

tomation on this track is being read or played back. You

can turn this off and the automation will not be read. In our

case we drew in volume automation, and so in turning it off

the volume will not fade in but stay at one level.

There are so many examples to show when it comes to au-

tomation. For example we could have automated our effects

or our send levels. We could have even automated objects

while Cubase AI was playing back. The automation can be

placed into write mode and moving almost anything will

create automation that we can edit for fine tuning later!

Make sure you read the chapter “Automation” in the Opera-

tion Manual to fully realize how exciting automation can be.

Exporting

Now that we have our project mixed we will want to export

it so that we can import it into another program such as a

CD burning application like WaveLab.

• Before we can export our mix we need to tell Cubase AI

how many bars to export. We accomplish this by setting

the locators.

1. Set the left locator to bar 1 and the right locator to bar

65 on the Transport panel. This will make sure we have all

the music for export.

2. On the File menu–Export submenu, select “Audio Mix-

down…”.

Load the project “Mixing 8” found in the “Tutorial 6”

folder.