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Introduction
About the Documentation and the Help
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About the Documentation and the Help
The documentation are available in the PDF format and divided into the
following sections:
• To open the help in the program, select Help > Documentation.
• On Windows systems, you open the PDF documents via the Start
menu, from the Steinberg Cubase folder.
• On Mac OS X systems, the PDF documents are located in the
/Library/Documentation/Steinberg/Cubase 8 folder.
NOTE
To read the PDF documents, a suitable PDF reader application must be
installed on your computer.
Quick Start Guide
This is the document you are reading. It covers the following areas
without going into details:
• System requirements, installation procedure, and license
activation.
• Setting up your system.
Operation Manual
The Operation Manual is the main Cubase reference documentation,
with detailed descriptions of operations, parameters, functions, and
techniques.
Plug-in Reference
This document describes the features and parameters of the included
VST plug-ins and VST instruments.