9.5
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Setting Up Your System
- Audio Connections
- Project Window
- Project Handling
- Tracks
- Track Handling
- Adding Tracks
- Exporting MIDI Tracks as Standard MIDI File
- Removing Tracks
- Moving Tracks in the Track List
- Renaming Tracks
- Coloring Tracks
- Showing Track Pictures
- Setting the Track Height
- Selecting Tracks
- Duplicating Tracks
- Disabling 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
- Events
- Parts
- Editing Techniques for Parts and Events
- Range Editing
- Playback and Transport
- On-Screen Keyboard
- Recording
- Importing Audio and MIDI Files
- Quantizing MIDI and Audio
- Fades and Crossfades
- Arranger Track (Cubase Elements only)
- Markers
- MixConsole
- MixConsole in Lower Zone
- MixConsole Window
- Audio Effects
- Direct Offline Processing
- Time Stretch Algorithms
- Audio Functions
- Sample Editor
- Hitpoints
- Tempo Matching Audio
- Audio Part Editor
- Controlling Sample Playback with Sampler Tracks (Cubase Elements only)
- Pool
- Pool Window
- Working with the Pool
- Renaming Clips or Regions in the Pool
- Duplicating Clips in the Pool
- Inserting Clips into a Project
- Deleting Clips from the Pool
- Locating Events and Clips
- Searching for Audio Files
- About Missing Files
- Auditioning Clips in the Pool
- Opening Clips in the Sample Editor
- Importing Media
- Exporting Regions as Audio Files
- Changing the Pool Record Folder
- Organizing Clips and Folders
- Applying Processing to Clips in the Pool
- Minimizing Files
- Converting Files
- Conforming Files
- Extracting Audio from Video File
- MediaBay
- Automation
- VST Instruments
- Adding VST Instruments (not in Cubase LE)
- Creating Instrument Tracks
- VST Instruments in the Right Zone (not in Cubase LE)
- VST Instruments Window (not in Cubase LE)
- VST Instruments Toolbar (not in Cubase LE)
- VST Instrument Controls (not in Cubase LE)
- Presets for Instruments
- Playing Back VST Instruments
- Latency
- Import and Export Options
- VST Quick Controls (not in Cubase LE)
- Installing and Managing Plug-Ins
- Remote Controlling Cubase
- MIDI Realtime Parameters
- Using MIDI devices
- MIDI Functions
- Transpose Setup
- Merging MIDI Events into a New Part
- Dissolve Part
- Repeating MIDI Events of Independent Track Loops
- Extending MIDI Notes
- Fixing MIDI Note Lengths
- Fixing MIDI Note Velocities
- Rendering Sustain Pedal Data to Note Lengths
- Deleting Overlaps
- Editing Velocity
- Deleting Double Notes
- Deleting Controller Data
- Deleting Continuous Controller Data
- Restricting Polyphonic Voices
- Thinning Out Controller Data
- Extracting MIDI Automation
- Reversing the Playback Order of MIDI Events
- Inverting the Order of Selected MIDI Events
- MIDI Editors
- Common MIDI Editor Functions
- Key Editor
- Key Editor Operations
- Inserting Note Events with the Object Selection Tool
- Drawing Note Events with the Draw Tool
- Modifying Note Values while Inserting Notes
- Drawing Note Events with the Line Tool
- Moving and Transposing Note Events
- Resizing Note Events
- Using the Trim Tool
- Splitting Note Events
- Gluing Note Events
- Changing the Pitch of Chords (Cubase Elements only)
- Changing the Voicing of Chords (Cubase Elements only)
- Chord Editing Section (Cubase Elements only)
- Inserting Chords (Cubase Elements only)
- Applying Chord Events to Note Events
- Drum Map Handling
- Editing Note Events via MIDI Input
- Step Input
- Using the Controller Display
- Selecting Controllers within the Note Range
- Score Editor
- Score Editor Operations
- Drum Editor
- Drum Editor Operations
- Drum Maps
- Chord Functions
- Chord Pads
- Editing Tempo and Time Signature
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- Video
- ReWire (not in Cubase LE)
- Key Commands
- Adding Key Commands
- Searching for Key Commands
- Removing Key Commands
- Saving Key Commands Presets
- Loading Key Command Presets
- Importing Key Command Settings
- Resetting Key Commands
- The Default Key Commands
- Audio Category
- Automation Category
- Chords Category
- Devices (Studio) Category
- Direct Offline Processing Category
- Edit Category
- Editors Category
- File Category
- Media Category
- MIDI Category
- Navigate Category
- Nudge Category
- Project Category
- Quantize Category
- Set Insert Length Category
- Tool Category
- Transport Category
- Window Zones Category
- Windows Category
- Zoom Category
- Setting Up Tool Modifier Keys
- Customizing
- Optimizing
- Preferences
- Index
Synchronization
Timecode (positional references)
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LTC (Longitudinal Timecode) is an analog signal that can be recorded on tape. It should
be used for positional information primarily. It can also be used for speed and phase
information as a last resort if no other clock source is available.
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VITC (Vertical Interval Timecode) is contained within a composite video signal. It is
recorded onto video tape and is physically tied to each video frame.
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MTC (MIDI Timecode) is identical to LTC except that it is a digital signal transmitted via
MIDI.
Timecode standards
Timecode has several standards. The subject of the various timecode formats can be very
confusing due to the use and misuse of the shorthand names for specific timecode standards
and frame rates. The timecode format can be divided into 2 variables: frame count and frame
rate.
Frame count (frames per second)
The frame count of timecode defines the standard with which it is labeled. There are 4 timecode
standards:
24 fps Film (F)
This frame count is the traditional count for film. It is also used for HD video formats
and commonly referred to as 24 p. However, with HD video, the actual frame rate or
speed of the video sync reference is slower, 23.976 frames per second, so timecode
does not reflect the actual realtime on the clock for 24p HD video.
25 fps PAL (P)
This is the broadcast video standard frame count for European (and other PAL
countries) television broadcast.
30 fps non-drop SMPTE (N)
This is the frame count of NTSC broadcast video. However, the actual frame rate
or speed of the video format runs at 29.97 fps. This timecode clock does not run in
realtime. It is slightly slower by 0.1 %.
30 fps drop-frame SMPTE (D)
The 30 fps drop-frame count is an adaptation that allows a timecode display running
at 29.97 fps to actually show the clock-on-the-wall-time of the timeline by dropping
or skipping specific frame numbers in order to catch the clock up to realtime.
Confused? Just remember to keep the timecode standard (or frame count) and frame rate (or
speed) separate.
Frame rate (speed)
Regardless of the frame counting system, the actual speed at which frames of video go by in real
time is the true frame rate.
Cubase supports the following frame rates:
24 fps
This is the true speed of standard film cameras.
25 fps
This is the frame rate of PAL video.
29.97 fps
This is the frame rate of NTSC video. The count can be either non-drop or drop-
frame.
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