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Table Of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
- About the Program Versions
- Typographical Conventions
Setting Up Your System
- Setting Up Audio
- Setting Up MIDI
- Connecting a Synchronizer
- Setting Up Video
VST Connections
- VST Connections Window
- Renaming the Hardware Inputs and Outputs
- Adding Input and Output Busses
- Presets for Input and Output Busses
- About Monitoring
- Editing the Bus Configurations
Project Window
- Toolbar
- Status Line
- Info Line
- Overview Line
- Ruler
- Inspector
- Global Track Controls
- Track List
- Event Display
- Racks
- Zooming in the Project Window
- Snap Function
- Cross-Hair Cursor
- Edit History Dialog
Project Handling
- Creating New Projects
- Steinberg Hub
- Project Assistant
- About Project Files
- About Template Files
- Project Setup Dialog
- Opening Project Files
- Saving Project Files
- Reverting to the Last Saved Version
- Choosing a Project Location
- Removing Unused Audio Files
- Creating Self-Contained Projects
Tracks
- Audio Tracks
- Instrument Tracks
- MIDI Tracks
- Arranger Track
- Chord Track
- FX Channel Tracks
- Folder Tracks
- Group Channel Tracks
- Marker Track
- Ruler Track
- Video Track
- Customizing Track Controls
Track Handling
- Adding Tracks
- Removing Tracks
- Moving Tracks in the Track List
- Renaming Tracks
- Coloring Tracks
- Showing Track Pictures
- Setting the Track Height
- Selecting Tracks
- Duplicating Tracks
- Disabling Audio Tracks (Cubase Elements only)
- Organizing Tracks in Folder Tracks
- Handling Overlapping Audio
- How Events are Displayed on Folder Tracks
- Modifying Event Display on Folder Tracks
- Track Presets
Parts and Events
- Audio Handling
- Parts
- Auditioning Audio Parts and Events
- Adding Events to a Track
- Scrubbing
- Folder Parts
- Editing Parts and Events
Range Editing
- Creating a Selection Range
- Editing Selection Ranges
Playback and Transport
- Transport Panel
- Transport Menu
- Setting the Project Cursor Position
- Left and Right Locators
- Auto-Scroll
- Time Formats
- Locating to Specific Time Positions
- Metronome
- Chase
Virtual Keyboard
- Recording MIDI With the Virtual Keyboard
- Virtual Keyboard Options
Recording
- Basic Recording Methods
- Monitoring
- Audio Recording Specifics
- MIDI Recording Specifics
- Remaining Record Time
- Lock Record
Quantizing MIDI and Audio
- Quantizing Audio Event Starts
- Quantizing MIDI Event Starts
- Quantizing MIDI Event Lengths
- Quantizing MIDI Event Ends
- Quantize Panel
- Additional Quantizing Functions
Fades and crossfades
- Creating fades
- The Fade dialogs
- Creating crossfades
- The Crossfade dialog
- Auto fades and crossfades
Arranger Track (Cubase Elements only)
- Introduction
- Setting up the arranger track
- Working with arranger events
- Flattening the arranger chain
- Live mode
- Arranging your music to video
Markers
- Position Markers
- Cycle Markers
- Markers Window
- Marker Track
- Importing and Exporting Markers
MixConsole
- Setting Up the MixConsole
- MixConsole Toolbar
- Configuring the MixConsole
- Linking Channels
- Input Levels
- Copying and Moving Rack and Channel Settings
- Fader Section
- Working with Channel Racks
- Using Channel Settings
- Adding Notes to a MixConsole Channel
- Keyboard Navigation
Audio Effects
- Overview
- Insert Effects
- Send Effects
- Effect Control Panel
- Comparing Effect Settings
- Effect Presets
- Plug-In Information Window
Audio processing and functions
- Background
- Audio processing
- Freeze Edits
- Detect Silence
- The Spectrum Analyzer
- Statistics
- Time stretch algorithm
Sample Editor
- Window overview
- General Functions
- Warping audio
- Working with hitpoints and slices
Audio Part Editor
- Window Overview
- Opening the Audio Part Editor
- Operations
- Options and Settings
Pool
- Pool Window
- Working with the Pool
MediaBay
- Working With the MediaBay
- Setting Up the MediaBay
- Define Locations Section
- Scanning Your Content
- Updating the MediaBay
- Locations Section
- Results Section
- Previewer Section
- Filters Section
- Sound Browser and Mini Browser
- MediaBay Preferences
- MediaBay Key Commands
- Working with MediaBay-Related Windows
- Working With Volume Databases
Automation
- Recording your Actions
- Automation Curves
- Static Value Line
- Write/Read Automation
- MIDI Part Data vs. Track Automation
- Writing Automation Data
- Editing Automation Data
- Automation Tracks
VST Instruments
- VST Instruments Window
- Adding VST Instruments
- Presets for Instruments
- VST Quick Controls
- Playing Back VST Instruments
- About Latency
- Import and Export Options
Installing and Managing Plug-ins
- Installing VST plug-ins
- Plug-in Manager
- Compiling a New Effects Collection
Remote controlling Cubase
- Setting Up
- Operations
- The Generic Remote device
- The Remote Control Editor (Cubase Elements only)
- Apple Remote (Macintosh only)
MIDI realtime parameters
- The Inspector – general handling
- The Inspector sections
Using MIDI devices
- MIDI devices – general settings and patch handling
MIDI Processing
- MIDI functions vs. MIDI modifiers
- What is affected by the MIDI functions?
- Transpose
- Making your settings permanent
- Dissolve Part
- Repeat Loop
- Other MIDI functions
MIDI Editors
- Opening MIDI editors
- Changing the Default MIDI Editor
- Common MIDI Editor Functions
- Key Editor
- Key Editor Operations
- Score Editor
- Score Editor Operations
- Drum Editor
- Drum Editor Operations
- SysEx Messages
Chord Functions
- Chord Track
- Chord Events
- Scale Events
- Voicings
- Converting Chord Events to MIDI
- Controlling MIDI Playback using the Chord Track
- Assigning Voices to Notes
- Extracting Chord Events from MIDI
- Recording Chord Events with a MIDI Keyboard
Chord Pads
- Chord Pads Zone
- Functions Menu
- Preparations
- Chord Assistant
- Assigning Chords to Chord Pads
- Moving and Copying Chord Pads
- Playing Back and Recording Chords
- Chord Pad Settings – Remote Control
- Chord Pad Settings – Players
- Chord Pad Settings – Pad Layout
- Chord Pads Presets
- Creating Events from Chord Pads
Editing tempo and signature
- Background
- Tempo and signature display
- Editing tempo and signature
- The Beat Calculator
- Adjusting the audio to the project tempo
Export Audio Mixdown
- Introduction
- Mixing down to audio files
- The Export Audio Mixdown dialog
- The available file formats
Synchronization
- Background
- Timecode (positional references)
- Clock sources (speed references)
- The Project Synchronization Setup dialog
- Synchronized operation
- Working with VST System Link
- Activating VST System Link
Video
- Before You Start
- Preparing a Video Project
- Playing Back Video
- Editing Video
- Extracting Audio From a Video File
- Replacing the Audio in a Video File
ReWire (not in Cubase LE)
- Introduction
- Launching and quitting
- Activating ReWire channels
- Using the transport and tempo controls
- How the ReWire channels are handled
- Routing MIDI via ReWire
- Considerations and limitations
Key Commands
- Introduction
- Setting up key commands
- Setting up tool modifier keys
- The default key commands
File handling
- Importing audio
- Exporting and importing standard MIDI files
- Exporting and importing MIDI loops
Customizing
- Using the Setup options
- Appearance
- Applying colors in the Project window
- Where are the settings stored?
Optimizing
- Optimizing Audio Performance
Preferences
- Preferences Dialog
- Appearance
- Editing
- Event Display
- General
- MIDI
- MediaBay
- Metering
- Record
- Transport
- VST
- Video
Index

Index

681

MixConsole 206

Channel linking 214

Channel overview 206

Channel racks 211

Channel selector 209

Channel types 211

Configuring 208

EQ presets 228

Equalizer curve 206

Fader section 217

FX chain presets 225

Hiding channels 208

Level meters 219

Mute 218

Notepad 238

Opening 206

Panning 218

Pre rack 222

Racks 220

Sections 206

Set up window layout 208

Setting volume 219

Solo 218

Solo Defeat 218

Strip presets 235

Visibility tab 209

Zoom tools 208

Modifier keys 607

Monitoring 149

About 13

ASIO Direct Monitoring 150

External 150

MIDI 151

Via Cubase 149

Mouse information 488

Moving tracks 92

MP3 files

Exporting 560

Importing 621, 622

MPEG files 621, 622

Multi processing 641

Multi-channel tracks

Export 551

Musical Mode

About 296

Adjusting audio loops 297

Pool 296

Mute

MixConsole 218

Mute Pre-Send when Mute 671

Muting events 122

Navigating

MixConsole 239

Never Reset Chased

Controllers

661

Noise Gate 266

Normalize

Audio effect 267

Note Brightness 658

Note display

Drum Editor 490

Key Editor 450

Shifting 480

Note events

Adding in controller display 463

Changing the velocity 466

Colori ng 436

Creating 493

Creating in Score Editor 478

Cutting 439

Deleting in controller

display

469

Drawing with Draw tool 451

Drawing with Line tool 452

Duplicating 440, 479

Editing 440

Editing via MIDI 458

Editing with Draw tool 464

Excluding from playback 438

Gluing 455, 480

Moving 453, 493

Moving in controller display 469

Muting 438

Repeating 440

Resizing 453

Selecting 437

Setting values 478

Setting with Snap 440

Splitting 454, 480

Transposing 453, 493

Note lengths

Changing 480

Note stems

Flipping the direction 481

Note values

Setting 478

Notepad

MixConsole 238

Ogg Vorbis files

Exporting 560

Importing 622

On Import Audio Files 650

On Processing Shared Clips 650

O-notes (Output notes) 498

Open Effect Editor after Loading

673

Organizing files in subfolders

Pool 330

Output busses

Adding 20

Default 20

Mixing down to file 551

Renaming 18

Routing 222

Output ports 13

Overlapping Audio 100

Overview line

Project window 28

Panning

Bypass 218

MixConsole 218

Part Data Mode 658

Parts

About 106, 108

Displaying in score 474

Dissolving (MIDI) 425

Editing 112

Folder 111

Sliding the contents 120

Parts Get Track Names 648

Paste at Origin 119

Paste Relative to Cursor 119

Patch Banks 416

Pedals

To note length 428

Performance

Aspects 639

Audio hardware 641

CPU and processor cache 640

Driver 641

Hard disk and controller 641

Optimizing 639

RAM 640

VST performance 642

Phase

MixConsole 224

Phase Reverse 268

Piano voicings 512

Pick-up Mode 375

Pitch

Changing for chords 455

Pitch Notation 658

Pitch shifting

Algorithms 279

Playback

Excluding note events 438

Playback Toggle triggers Local

Preview

669

Plug-in delay compensation 241

Plug-in Editors"Always on

Top"

673

Plug-in Information 259

Plug-in information

Managing plug-ins 260