Steinberg Cubase 5 Operation Manual

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The Project window
Range editing
Editing in the Project window isn’t necessarily restricted 
to handling whole events and parts. You can also work 
with selection ranges, which are independent from the 
event/part and track boundaries.
Creating a selection range
To make a selection range, drag with the Range Selection 
tool.
When the Range Selection tool is selected, the Select 
submenu on the Edit menu has the following items for 
making selection ranges:
Double-clicking on an event with the Range...

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The Project window
Making selection ranges for several non-contiguous 
tracks
You can create selection ranges that cover several tracks 
by pressing [Alt]/[Option]-[Shift]. However, it is also pos-
sible to exclude tracks from a selection range:
1.Create a selection range from the first to the last de-
sired track.
2.Press [Alt]/[Option] and click in the selection range on 
the tracks you want to exclude from the selection.
3.In the same manner, you can add a track to the selec-
tion range by...

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The Project window
Region operations
Regions are sections within a clip, with various uses. 
While regions are perhaps best created and edited in the 
Sample Editor (see “Working with regions” on page 228), 
the following region functions are available in the Advan-
ced submenu of the Audio menu:
Folder tracks
Moving tracks into a folder is a way to structure and orga-
nize tracks in the Project window. By grouping tracks in 
folder tracks, you can solo and mute them in a quicker and 
easier way and...

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The Project window
 Muting a folder part. This will mute its contained events and 
parts.
Tracks inside a folder can be edited as one entity by per-
forming the editing directly on the folder part containing 
the tracks. You can also edit individual tracks within the 
folder by showing the contained tracks, selecting parts 
and opening editors as usual.
Double-clicking a folder part opens the editors for the cor-
responding track classes present in the folder. The follow-
ing applies:
All MIDI parts...

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The Project window
The following actions can be performed in the Marker 
window:
Adding markers
Click the Add button or press [Insert] (Windows only) on the computer 
keyboard to add position markers at the current project cursor position
Select “Cycle Markers” from the Show pop-up menu and click the Add 
button to add a cycle marker between the left and right locator.
Removing markers
Select a marker and click the Remove button to remove it.
Moving marker positions
Set the project cursor to the...

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The Project window
Editing markers in the Project Browser
If you have a Marker track in the Project window, you can 
create and edit all marker parameters, including marker 
IDs, in the Project Browser. For details about editing 
markers in the Project Browser see “Editing the Marker 
track” on page 418.
Options
The Snap function
The Snap function helps you to find exact positions when 
editing in the Project window. It does this by restricting 
horizontal movement and positioning to certain...

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The Project window
Events
In this mode, the start and end positions of other events 
and parts become “magnetic”. This means that if you drag 
an event to a position near the start or end of another 
event, it is automatically aligned with the start or end of the 
other event. For audio events, the position of the snap 
point is also magnetic (see “Adjusting the snap point” on 
page 226).
Note that this includes marker events on the marker track.
This allows you to snap events to marker positions, and...

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The Project window
Proceed as follows:
1.Open a project that contains audio or MIDI parts/
events.
2.Enable both the “Autoscroll” and the “Suspend Auto-
scroll when Editing” buttons (both buttons turn blue).
3.Start playback.
4.Edit an audio or MIDI part/event of your project (e. g. 
click and drag it to a different location on its track).
The Autoscroll button will turn orange.
Autoscrolling is now suspended, i. e. when the project cur-
sor moves to the right edge of the Project window, the 
display...

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Playback and the Transport panel 

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Playback and the Transport panel
Background
This chapter describes the various methods available for 
controlling Playback and Transport functions in Cubase.
The Transport panel
Below you can find a brief description of each item on the 
Transport panel.
The pictures below show the Transport panel with all con-
trols visible (note that the Jog/Shuttle control is available 
in Cubase only). The Transport panel is divided into the 
following sections, from left to right.
ÖNote that the Output Activity...