Steinberg Cubase 5 Operation Manual

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The Sample Editor
Window overview
The Elements menu
If you hold [Alt]/[Option] and right-click in the Sample Ed-
itor to bring up the context menu, you will find a submenu 
called “Elements”. By activating or deactivating options on 
this submenu, you specify what is shown in the editor win-
dow. Some of these options are also available as icons on 
the toolbar.
ÖProvided that the “Popup Toolbox on Right Click” op-
tion in the Preferences dialog (Editing–Tools page) is ac-
tivated, a right-click...

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You can customize the toolbar by right-clicking it and 
using the context menu to hide or show items.
Selecting Setup from the context menu allows you to 
rearrange sections on the toolbar, store toolbar presets, 
etc. See “Using the Setup options” on page 471.
The info line
If you activate the Show Info button on the toolbar, the info 
line will show information about the edited audio clip:
Initially, length and position values are displayed in the for-
mat specified in the Project...

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The VariAudio tab (Cubase only)
On this tab you can edit single notes of your audio file 
and change their pitch and/or timing, in a way that is sim-
ilar to the editing of MIDI notes (see “Understanding the 
waveform display in VariAudio” on page 243). Further-
more, you can extract MIDI from your audio (see “Func-
tions – Extract MIDI…” on page 252).
The Hitpoints tab
On this tab, the transients or hitpoints of the audio can be 
marked and edited (see “Working with hitpoints and...

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The ruler
The Sample Editor ruler is located between the thumbnail 
and the waveform displays. The ruler is explained in detail 
in the section “The ruler” on page 33.
The waveform display and the level scale
The waveform display shows the waveform image of the 
edited audio clip according to the wave image style set in 
the Preferences (Event Display–Audio page), see “Ad-
justing how parts and events are shown” on page 37. To 
the left of the waveform display a level scale can be...

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On the VariAudio tab (see “VariAudio (Cubase only)” on 
page 243) you can also zoom by holding down [Alt]/[Op-
tion] while drawing a selection rectangle around the seg-
ments that you want to be zoomed on. You can zoom out 
by holding down [Alt]/[Option] and clicking in an empty 
area of the waveform.
You can also zoom by resizing the rectangle in the 
thumbnail display.
See “The thumbnail display” on page 223.
The current zoom setting is shown in the info line, as a 
“samples per...

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Scrubbing
The Scrub tool allows you to locate positions in the audio 
by playing back, forwards or backwards, at any speed:
1.Select the Scrub tool.
2.Click in the waveform display and keep the mouse 
button pressed.
The project cursor is moved to the position at which you click.
3.Drag to the left or right.
The project cursor follows the mouse pointer and the audio is played 
back. The speed and pitch of the playback depends on how fast you 
move the pointer.
You can adjust the...

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It is also possible to define a snap point for a clip (for 
which there is no event yet).
To open a clip in the Sample Editor, double-click it in the Pool. After hav-
ing set the snap point using the procedure described above, you can in-
sert the clip into the project from the Pool or the Sample Editor, taking 
the snap point position into account.
Making selections
To select an audio section in the Sample Editor, you click 
and drag with the Range Selection tool.
If Snap to Zero...

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Cut, Copy and Paste
The Cut, Copy and Paste commands (on the Edit menu in 
the Process tab of the Sample Editor Inspector or in the 
main Edit menu) work according to the following rules:
Selecting Copy copies the selection to the clipboard.
Selecting Cut removes the selection from the clip and 
moves it to the clipboard.
The section to the right of the selection is moved to the left to fill the gap.
Selecting Paste copies the data on the clipboard into 
the clip.
If there is a...

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Creating a region
1.Select the range that you want to convert into a region.
2.Click the “Show Regions” button on the toolbar, or ac-
tivate the “Regions” option on the Elements submenu of 
the context menu.
The regions list is displayed to the right in the Sample Editor window.
3.Click the Add Region button above the Regions list (or 
select “Event or Range as Region” from the Advanced 
submenu of the Audio menu).
A region is created, corresponding to the selected range.
4.To name...

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Removing regions
To remove a region from a clip, select it in the list and click 
the Remove Region button above the list.
Exporting regions as audio files
If you create a region in the Sample Editor, the region can 
be exported to disk as a new audio file. This is done from 
the Pool, see “Exporting regions as audio files” on page 
269.
Drawing in the Sample Editor
It is possible to edit the audio clip at sample level by draw-
ing with the Pencil tool. This can be useful if you...