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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

684

Show Overlaps 656

Show Scales 511

Show Timecode Subframes 669

Show Tips 659

Show Track Pictures 94

Show Waveforms 657

Show/hide columns

Pool 317

Silence 270

Inserting 128

Simple Crossfade Editor 180

Single Voice

Follow Chord Track 516

Slices

About 297

Creating 303

Slider Mode 651

Smallest Track Height To Show

Data

656

Smallest Track Height To Show

Name

656

Snap 440

About 39

Sample Editor 282

Zero crossings (Sample

Editor)

282

Snap MIDI Parts to Bars 668

Snap point

Setting 39

Setting in Sample Editor 289

Snap Point To Cursor 39

Snap to Zero Crossing

Audio Part Editor 312

Snap to zero crossings

About 39

Snap type

Selecting 40

Solo

Audio Part Editor 309

MixConsole 218

Solo Defeat

MixConsole 218

Solo Record in MIDI Editors 668

Soloing

MIDI editors 436

Speaker tool

Audio Part Editor 309

Sample Editor 287

Spectrum Analyzer 276

Split at Cursor 118

Split Loop 118

Split MIDI Controllers 652

Split MIDI Events 652

Splitting

By ranges 128

Notes 480

Splitting events 118

Start Recording at Cursor

Common Record Modes 148

Start Recording at Left Locator

Common Record Modes 148

Static value line

Automation 360

Stationary Cursors 669

Statistics 278

Status line

Key Editor 448

Project window 27

Score Editor 472

Steinberg Hub 45

Deactivating 46

Stems

Flipping the direction 481

Step recording 459

Stereo Flip 270

Stop after Automatic Punch

Out

669

Stop playback while winding 669

Strip presets 235

Strip Silence 275

Suspend VST3 plug-in processing

when no audio signals are

received

241, 673

Swing

Quantizing 170

Synchronization

9-Pin devices 568

About 564

Nuendo SyncStation 568

Operation (Sync mode) 572

Setting up 568

Speed references 567

Timecode 565

Timecode preferences 569

Timecode source 568

Synchronize Plug-in Program

Selection to Track

Selection

673

Synchronizing Track Data

Follow Chord Track 518

SysEx

Changing device settings

remotely

502

SysEx Messages 500

Template projects 47

Templates

Renaming 49

Tempo

About 542

Calculating 548

Editing 545

Matching audio 297

Write definition to files 550

Texts

Adding in Score Editor 481

Editing in Score Editor 481

Thumbnail Memory Cache

Size

674

Thumbnails

About 590

Thumbnail cache files 590

Time display 138

Time signatures

Editing 548

Time stretch 270

Algorithms 279

Timecode

Standards 565

Synchronization 565

Timeline

Ruler 434

Tool modifier keys 607

Tool Modifiers 655

Toolbar

Audio Part Editor 307

Drum Editor 484

Key Editor 444

Project window 25

Sample Editor 282

Score Editor 471

Toolbox

Project window 26

Track automation data

Automation 361

Track Controls Settings 88

Track Height 96

Track list

About 33

Dividing 33

Track Pictures 94

Track Pictures Browser 94

Track Presets

About 101

Applying 103

Audio 101

Creating 105

Extracting Sounds 104

Instrument 101

Loading 103

MIDI 102

Multi-Track 102

VST Presets 102

Track Selection follows Event

Selection

648

Track Zoom 96