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Stopping playback
There are also several ways to stop playback in Cubase:
• 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 on the numeric keypad.
Cycle playback
In Cubase, you can play back a section of your project in a continuous cycle or
loop. Proceed as follows:
1. On the Transport panel, set the left locator to “1” and the right locator to “5”.
This tells Cubase that you want to cycle between the beginnings of bars 1 and 5. That way you will
get a 4-bar cycle.
2. Make sure that the Cycle button is activated.
3. Click the Play button.
Cubase will repeat the cycle over and over until you stop playback.
• To playback the selected audio event or MIDI part in a cycle, you can also
select the event or part and choose “Loop Selection” from the Transport menu.
This is the quickest way to set up a cycle and start playback; the default key command for this is
[Shift]-[G].
The left locator is set to “1”.
The right locator is set to “5”.
Cycle activated.