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Tutorial 1: Recording audio
• Double-click in the lower half of the ruler.
• Select the event 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 [Space] 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 Play button on the Transport panel and Cu-
base AI will play looping over and over until you click
“Stop”.
Recording modes with cycle off
There are three different modes for recording when the
cycle is turned off. This is called linear recording. The
three modes are:
• Normal
• Merge
• Replace
When recording audio, “Normal” and “Merge” are the
same. Selecting either of these will allow you to record
over the top of another audio event and it will appear as an
overlap. You can then select between the overlapping
events and determine which one will play. This is dis-
cussed in the following section.
When recording in “Replace” mode, audio that was previ-
ously recorded on the same track is cut or split to make
room for the new audio data. However, the “old” recording
that is being replaced is not permanently deleted. It is only
cut or trimmed away allowing you to recover it later.
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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!
The left locator set to “1”.
The right locator set to “5”.
Cycle activated.
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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].