Steinberg Cubase Essential 4 Operation Manual

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The Pool
Organizing clips and folders
If you accumulate a large number of clips in the Pool, it 
may sometimes be difficult to quickly find specific items. In 
such cases, organizing clips in new subfolders with suit-
able names that reflect the content can be a solution. For 
example, you could put all sound effects in one folder, all 
lead vocals in another etc. Proceed as follows:
1.Select the type of folder, audio or video, for which you 
want to create a subfolder.
You cannot put audio clips in...

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The Pool
Once you have performed a Prepare Archive, you can copy 
the project file, the Audio folder and any other audio mate-
rial you saved in the project folder to backup disks, etc.
It is not necessary to archive the Images folder, since 
these Images can be recreated by Cubase Essential. You 
may also find a file with the extension “.csh” in the project 
folder. This contains image information for edited clips and 
other data that can be recreated, so it can safely be de-
leted.
Convert Files...

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SoundFrame 

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SoundFrame
Introduction
One of the biggest challenges in typical project studio en-
vironments is how to manage the ever-growing number of 
plug-ins, instruments, presets, etc. Cubase Essential pro-
vides a truly universal, fully integrated solution to this prob-
lem: SoundFrame.
What constitutes SoundFrame?
The Cubase Essential SoundFrame is what links the Me-
diaBay and instrument tracks as well as track and VST3 
presets. 
The MediaBay is a universal Media Management Sys-
tem providing different...

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SoundFrame
In the Inspector for instrument tracks as a button for ex-
tracting sounds.
In the Inspector or the Channel settings window as but-
tons for extracting Inserts or EQ settings from track presets.
What can SoundFrame do for you?
SoundFrame allows you to manage any sound from any 
software or hardware synthesizer under a single, unified 
user interface.
SoundFrame can help you find any sound, not only by in-
strument but also by category, type, style, character or 
other attributes (Track...

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The MediaBay 

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The MediaBay
Introduction
Modern music production involves having to deal with a 
multitude of media files, e. g. audio, MIDI, video, etc.
Cubase Essential features a powerful media file manage-
ment database that allows you to control all your media 
files from within your sequencer program. This may involve 
several different tasks: 
You can browse the folders of your file system to view 
folders and files.
You can define searches to find specific files and filter 
the search results.
You can...

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The MediaBay
Window overview
The info line
The info line is located at the bottom of the window.
The info line shows the number of files displayed in the 
Viewer section and the path to the folder selected in the 
Browser section in which these files were found.
MediaBay sections
You can use the buttons below the Browser section to 
show/hide the respective sections in the MediaBay win-
dow. The Viewer section cannot be hidden.
Click this button to hide the Browser section.
You can change the size of...

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The MediaBay
Scanning operations
When you open the MediaBay, the Loop Browser or the 
Sound Browser for the first time, a scan for the media files 
needs to be performed. Specify which folders or directories 
should be included in the scan by activating the check 
boxes to the left of their name. Depending on the amount of 
media files on your computer, the scan may take a while. 
The scan result is saved in the MediaBay database. 
To include a folder, activate its check box.
These folders will be...

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The MediaBay
Folder operations
The Browser section shows the folder structure of your 
computer’s file system in a way very similar to the Win-
dows Explorer or the Mac OS Finder:
Click on the folder icons in the Browser display to se-
lect the corresponding folder.
Double-click on the folder icons in the Browser display 
to open the corresponding folder.
When a folder contains subfolders, this is indicated by a 
plus icon in front of the folder icon. The plus icon changes 
to a minus icon when the...