Steinberg Cubase 4 Getting Started Manual

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Tutorial 4: Working with loops 

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Loop Browser
The “Loop Browser” allows you to have a single window 
that gives you quick and easy access to all your loops. In 
the “Loop Browser” you can search for audio files, use 
tags to categorize, audition the audio in the open project’s 
tempo and a whole lot more.
Adding loops
1.Select “Open Loop Browser” from the Media menu.
2.Once the Loop Browser has finished scanning your 
hard disk(s) for loop files, they will be displayed in the 
Viewer section....

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Making copies
Now that we have our loop let’s copy it using the “Repeat” 
function.
1.Click on the loop event in the Project window to select it.
2.Choose “Repeat” from the Edit menu.
3.In the dialog that opens, set the “Count” field to “13”.
4.Click “OK”. The loop will be copied 13 times and all 
repeats will be placed one after the other.
Insert into Project
We are now going to add one more loop. This time we’ll 
use the “Insert into Project” command.
1.Create a new...

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Tutorial 5: External MIDI instruments 

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Tutorial 5: External MIDI instruments
Introduction
In this tutorial we are going to show you how to set up 
your MIDI devices and how to record them into Cubase. 
You may have a MIDI keyboard that is playing back MIDI 
data from Cubase and you want the data recorded as au-
dio for further processing for the final mix. Learning to use 
the right tools will make these steps easy.
By adding External instruments (Cubase only) you can 
have a MIDI keyboard’s audio outputs plugged directly 
into your audio...

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4.We want the audio from the K2000 to be in stereo. 
This means we are going to physically plug audio cables 
from the K2000’s output into the MI4 input. Since the MI4 
has 4 inputs we are going to plug them into the Line In 3 
and 4. Choose “1” for “Stereo Return(s)” since the K2000 
has a left and right output.
5.We created a MIDI device earlier, so let’s click on “As-
sociate MIDI Device” and choose the “K2000”.
To create a new MIDI Device (e. g. if you didn’t...

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4.Remember that we created a MIDI device in the MIDI 
Device Manager. MIDI Devices contain valuable informa-
tion about patch names, bank selections and a few other 
things. This helps us in that we already have all the pro-
gram names for the K2000 at our disposal. Click on the 
“Programs” button in the inspector and choose the “Ste-
reo Grand” piano sound.
If your MIDI device is different from the one in this tutorial choose a piano 
sound from your device....

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Tutorial 6: Mixing and effects 

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Tutorial 6: Mixing and effects
Introduction
In this section we’ll draw from the last 5 tutorials and finally 
get a mix ready with proper levels, EQs and effects. Auto-
mation will be added and then we’ll export the audio.
Setting levels
The first thing we want to do is to set the levels for our 
project. This helps us get a preliminary balance of the mix 
so we can add EQ and effects later.
1.Select the Mixer from the Devices menu.
The default key command for this is [F3].
2.Cubase only: Hide the...

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Setting pan
1.Setting the pan for each track moves its position in the 
stereo mix. It will either keep the signal balanced in the 
middle of the left and right speaker, lean to the left or lean 
to the right or be completely in the left or right speaker.
2.Right-clicking in the panner for certain track types pre-
sents you with three different types of pan options.
The different pan options are described in detail in the chapter “The 
Mixer” in the Operation Manual.
To...