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The Arranger track
3.You can now flatten the Arranger track by clicking the 
Flatten button.
If you realize that you want to do further arrangements, you can click the 
“Go Back” button and make your adjustments. Your Flattening settings 
will be kept.
4.Click the “Go Back” button to go back to the Arranger 
Editor or close the window by clicking its Close button.
Live Mode
If you have set up an Arranger track and play it back, you 
have also the possibility to influence the playback order 
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Arranging your music to video
The relative time of your Arranger track can be taken as a 
reference instead of the project time. This is useful, if you 
want to use the Arranger track to compose music for 
video and fill e.g. a specific video section with music, by 
repeating the corresponding number of Arranger events. 
If you position your external sync master device to a posi-
tion that does not match the Project Start time, Cubase 
will jump automatically to the right position...

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The Transpose functions 

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The Transpose functions
Introduction
Cubase offers transpose functions for audio, MIDI and in-
strument parts and for audio events. These allow you to 
create variations of your music or change the harmonics of 
an entire project or separate sections. 
Transpose can be applied on three levels:
On the entire project
By changing the project Root Key in the Project window toolbar, the 
whole project will be transposed (see “Transposing an entire project with 
the Root Key” on page 104). 
On sections of...

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The Transpose functions
3.Now (with the root key set), record audio or MIDI.
The recorded events will get the project root key.
4.When you are done and satisfied with the result, you 
can change the project root key and your events will follow.
If the events do not contain root key information
Let’s say you have created a project by recording audio 
and importing some MIDI loops, and you want to match 
the root key of the whole project to the register of a certain 
singer.
Proceed as follows:
1.In...

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To check or change the root key setting of a MIDI part, 
proceed as follows:
1.Select your MIDI part in the Project window and check 
the Project window info line.
A MIDI part with the root key set to “D”
2.Click on the root key value in the info line to open the 
corresponding pop-up menu and select the desired root 
key.
Transposing separate sections of a project 
using Transpose events
Sometimes you may want to transpose only certain sec-
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Other functions
Indicate Transpositions
When you transpose your music, you may sometimes 
want to visually compare the original sounds and the 
transposed music. For MIDI parts, you can check this by 
opening the Key Editor and clicking the “Indicate Transpo-
sitions” button. This will help you see how your MIDI notes 
will be transposed. If the button is activated, the Key Edi-
tor will show the note pitch you will hear, if it is deacti-
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If no transpose track exists or if no transpose event has 
been added, Global Transpose will be set to Follow.
If Global Transpose is set to Follow, the selected part will 
follow all global transpositions.
Locking the Transpose track
If you want to prevent your transpose events from being 
changed by mistake, activate the Lock button on the 
transpose track. This way, you will not be able to move 
your transpose events or change their transpose values.
Muting transpose...

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The mixer 

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The mixer
About this chapter
This chapter contains detailed information about the ele-
ments used when mixing audio and MIDI, and the various 
ways you can configure the mixer. 
Some mixer-related features are not described in this 
chapter. These are the following:
Setting up and using audio effects.
See the chapter “Audio effects” on page 150.
Setting up and using MIDI effects.
See the chapter “MIDI realtime parameters and effects” on page 305.
Surround Sound (Cubase only).
See the chapter...