Steinberg Cubase 4 Menu Reference Manual

Menu Reference 

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Introduction
This manual lists all main menu items in Cubase and Cu-
base Studio for quick reference. For any further informa-
tion, please refer to the Operation Manual.
Cubase menu (Mac OS X only)
About Cubase
Opens a window with information about the Cubase ver-
sion number etc.
Preferences…
The Preferences dialog contains various settings and op-
tions. The dialog has several pages that you access by se-
lecting items in the Finder-like list on the left. To make 
settings without...

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Save Project to New Folder…
This item allows you to save the project into a new empty 
folder. It has some additional features that can be used for 
archiving purposes.
When a new empty folder has been selected, a dialog ap-
pears where you can change the name of the project and 
set the following options:
•You can choose to minimize audio files.
This will crop files based on the audio clips referenced in the project. As 
the clips used in the project may be references to much larger...

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Export
Replace Audio in Video File (Cubase only)
This lets you insert audio into a video file. If the video file 
already contains an audio track, this will be replaced by 
the audio you insert into it.
Cleanup…
The Cleanup function helps you to save hard disk space by 
locating unused files which you can delete in the project 
folders on your disk.
Preferences…
ÖUnder Mac OS X, the Preferences dialog is accessed 
from the Cubase menu.
The Preferences dialog contains various settings and...

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Edit menu
Undo/Redo
Cubase offers wide-ranging, multiple Undo, allowing you 
to undo virtually any action you perform.
To undo the last performed action, select Undo from the 
Edit menu, or use the corresponding key command (by 
default [Ctrl]/[Command]+[Z]).
If you select Undo again, the previously performed action will be undone, 
and so on.
To redo the last undone action, select Redo from the 
Edit menu, or use the corresponding key command (by 
default [Ctrl]/[Command]+[Shift]+[Z])....

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Select
The items on this submenu have different functions, de-
pending on whether the regular event selection tool 
(Arrow tool) or the Range Selection tool is selected:
Event selectionRange selection
Option Description
All Selects all events in the window.
None Deselects all events.
Invert Inverts the selection status, so that all selected events 
are deselected and all events that were not selected are 
selected instead.
In Loop Selects all events that are partly or wholly between the...

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Duplicate/Repeat…
Duplicate creates a copy of the selected event and 
places it directly after the original.
If several events are selected, all of these are copied “as one unit”, main-
taining the relative distance between the events.
Selecting “Repeat…” from the Edit menu opens a dia-
log, allowing you to create a number of copies (regular or 
shared) of the selected event(s).
This works just like the Duplicate function, except that you can specify 
the number of copies.
Fill Loop
This...

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Automation follows Events
This option can also be activated in the Preferences (Edit-
ing page). It is, however, also available on the Edit menu 
for quick activation and deactivation. When activated, au-
tomation events will automatically follow when you move 
an event or part on a track that contains automation for 
them. I.e. the automation events that affect an event will be 
moved along with it rather than remain in a specific posi-
tion in the project.
Auto Select Events under...