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Tutorial 2: Editing audio
Splitting
Splitting is used to cut events. You can split or cut an event
wherever you want or split them evenly to bars and beats.
Splitting with “Snap” off
Splitting with “Snap” off allows you to cut anywhere with-
out locking to any kind of reference like bars and beats.
1. Choose the Split tool.
2. Make sure “Snap” is off (not highlighted).
3. You can now split or cut the audio anywhere by click-
ing on the event.
4. Undo your actions by choosing “Undo Split” from the
Edit menu as many times as you used the Split tool.
Make sure there are no splits in the “Bass” event any more.
Splitting with “Snap” on
Having “Snap” on allows you to split or cut to a time refer-
ence. For example, if you want to cut the “Elec Guitar”
track to bars or beats.
1. Choose the Split tool.
2. Make sure “Snap” is on.
Snap allows you to edit to various time frames. The most common one is
bars and beats. Meaning you can cut exactly to the bar with “Snap” turned
on. With it turned off you can cut anywhere. See more about “Snap” in the
chapter “The Project window” in the Operation Manual.
3. If you are having trouble seeing anything beyond the
“Tool Buttons”, right-click in the toolbar (the top bar that
the “Tool Buttons” are on).
This allows you to change what you see at the top of the Project window.
Customization is in the heart of Cubase AI.
4. Choose “Default” so that if you changed anything it
will return to the default settings.
5. Choose “Grid” from the Snap mode pop-up menu to
the right of the Snap button.
This means we’ll be snapping to a grid.
6. Next choose “Bar” as the “Grid Type”.
This means you will split to bars.
The vertical blue
lines indicate
where the Bass
event was split.
There is more to see
but your screen resolu-
tion may prevent you
from seeing everything.
Right-click in the toolbar.