9.0
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Getting Into the Details
- Setting Up Your System
- VST Connections
- Project Window
- Project Handling
- Tracks
- 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 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
- Virtual Keyboard
- Recording
- Quantizing MIDI and Audio
- Fades and Crossfades
- Arranger Track (Cubase Elements only)
- Markers
- MixConsole
- MixConsole in Lower Zone
- MixConsole Window
- Audio Effects
- Audio Processing and Functions
- Sample Editor
- Hitpoints
- 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
- About 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 Processing
- 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
- File handling
- Customizing
- Optimizing
- Preferences
- Index
Synchronization
The Project Synchronization Setup dialog
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Word clock
Word clock is a dedicated signal running at the current sample rate that is fed
over BNC coaxial cables between devices. It is the most reliable form of audio
clock and is relatively easy to connect and use.
AES/SPDIF Digital Audio
An audio clock source is embedded within AES and SPDIF digital audio signals.
This clock source can be used as a speed reference. Preferably, the signal itself
does not contain any actual audio (digital black), but any digital audio source can
be used if necessary.
ADAT Lightpipe
ADAT Lightpipe, the 8-channel digital audio protocol developed by Alesis, also
contains audio clock and can be used as a speed reference. It is transmitted via
optical cables between devices.
NOTE
Do not confuse the audio clock embedded in the Lightpipe protocol with ADAT Sync, which
has timecode and machine control running over a proprietary DIN plug connection.
MIDI clock
MIDI clock is a signal that uses position and timing data based on musical bars and beats
to determine location and speed (tempo). It can perform the same function as a positional
reference and a speed reference for other MIDI devices. Cubase supports sending MIDI clock
to external devices but cannot slave to incoming MIDI clock.
IMPORTANT
MIDI clock cannot be used to synchronize digital audio. It is only used for MIDI devices to play
in musical sync with one another. Cubase does not support being a MIDI clock slave.
The Project Synchronization Setup dialog
Cubase’s Project Synchronization Setup dialog provides a central place to configure a
complex synchronized system. In addition to settings for timecode sources, project setup
parameters are available along with basic transport controls for testing the system.
• To open the Project Synchronization Setup dialog, select Transport> Project
Synchronization Setup.
The dialog is organized into sections separating related groups of settings. The arrows
shown between the various sections of the dialog indicate how settings in one section
influence settings in another section. In the following, the available sections are described in
detail.
The Cubase Section
At the center of the Project Synchronization Setup dialog is the Cubase section. It is provided
to help you visualize the role that Cubase takes in your setup. It shows which external signals
enter or leave the application.