Steinberg Cubase 6 Manual
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Operation Manual
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Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Marion Bröer, Sabine Pfeifer, Heike Schilling Thanks to: Ashley Shepherd The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The software described by this document is subject to a License Agreement and may not be copied to other media except as specifically allowed in the License Agreement. No part of this publica - tion may be copied, reproduced, or otherwise...
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Table of Contents
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4 Table of Contents 11Part I: Getting into the details 12About this manual 13Welcome! 14Setting up your system 15Setting up audio 20Setting up MIDI 22Connecting a synchronizer 22Setting up video 22Optimizing audio performance 25VST Connections 26About this chapter 26The VST Connections window 26Setting up busses 29Setting up group and FX channels 30About monitoring 30External instruments/effects (Cubase only) 34Editing operations 36The Project window 37Window Overview 39The track list 39The Inspector...
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5 Table of Contents 117Fades, crossfades and envelopes 118Creating fades 120The Fade dialogs 121Creating crossfades 121The Crossfade dialog 122Auto fades and crossfades 123Event envelopes 124The arranger track 125Introduction 125Setting up the arranger track 126Working with arranger events 128Flattening the arranger chain 129Live mode 130Arranging your music to video 131The transpose functions 132Introduction 132Transposing your music 135Other functions 138Using markers 139Introduction 139The Marker...
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6 Table of Contents 244Audio processing and functions 245Background 245Audio processing 253Applying plug-ins (Cubase only) 254The Offline Process History dialog 255Freeze Edits 256Detect Silence 257The Spectrum Analyzer 259Statistics 259About time stretch and pitch shift algorithms 261The Sample Editor 262Window overview 266General functions 272Warping audio 276Working with hitpoints and slices 281VariAudio (Cubase only) 292Flattening realtime processing 294The Audio Part Editor 295Background 295Opening...
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7 Table of Contents 374The MIDI editors 375Introduction 375Opening a MIDI editor 377The Key Editor – Overview 380Key Editor operations 396The In-Place Editor 397The Drum Editor – Overview 398Drum Editor operations 400Working with drum maps 403Using drum name lists 404The List Editor – Overview 405List Editor operations 407Working with SysEx messages 409Recording SysEx parameter changes 409Editing SysEx messages 411The basic Score Editor – Overview 412Score Editor operations 419Expression maps (Cubase...
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8 Table of Contents 509Video 510Introduction 510Before you start 511Preparing a video project in Cubase 513Video files in the Project window 514Playing back video 516Editing video 516Extracting audio from a video file 516Replacing the audio in a video file 517ReWire 518Introduction 518Launching and quitting 519Activating ReWire channels 519Using the transport and tempo controls 520How the ReWire channels are handled in Cubase 520Routing MIDI via ReWire2 520Considerations and limitations 521File handling...
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9 Table of Contents 573Entering and editing notes 574About this chapter 574Score settings 575Note values and positions 576Adding and editing notes 578Selecting notes 579Moving notes 580Duplicating notes 580Cut, copy, and paste 581Editing pitches of individual notes 582Changing the length of notes 582Splitting a note in two 583Working with the Display Quantize tool 583Split (piano) staves 583Strategies: Multiple staves 584Inserting and editing clefs, keys, or time signatures 585Deleting notes 586Staff...
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10 Table of Contents 655Working with layouts 656About this chapter 656Background: Layouts 656Creating a layout 656Opening a layout 656Layout operations 657Using layouts – an example 658Marker Track to Form 659Working with MusicXML 660Introduction 661Importing and exporting MusicXML files 663Designing your score: additional techniques 664About this chapter 664Layout settings 665Staff size 665Hiding/showing objects 666Coloring notes 667Multiple rests 667Editing bar lines 668Creating upbeats 669Setting...