Steinberg Cubase 5 Operation Manual

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Background
Every time you record on an audio track, a file is created 
on your hard disk. A reference to this file – a clip – is also 
added to the Pool. Two general rules apply to the Pool:
All audio and video clips that belong to a project are 
listed in the Pool.
There is a separate Pool for every project.
The way the Pool displays folders and their contents is 
similar to the way the Mac OS X Finder and the Windows 
Explorer display folders and lists of files.
In the Pool you can, among...

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The info line
Click the “Show Info” button on the toolbar to show or 
hide the info line at the bottom of the Pool window. It 
shows the following information:
How clips and regions are displayed in the 
Pool
 Audio clips are represented by a waveform icon followed by 
the clip name.
 Audio regions are represented by a region icon followed by 
the region name.
 Video clips are represented by a camera icon followed by the 
clip name.
The Pool window columns
Various information about the clips...

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Sorting the Pool contents
You can sort the clips in the Pool by name, date etc. This 
is done by clicking on the corresponding column heading. 
Clicking again on the same heading switches between as-
cending and descending sort order.
Customizing the view
You can specify which of the columns are shown or hid-
den by opening the View/Attributes pop-up menu on the 
toolbar and selecting/deselecting items.
You can rearrange the order of the columns by clicking 
on a column heading and dragging...

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Note that the clip will be positioned so that its snap 
point is aligned with the selected insert position.
You can also open the Sample Editor for a clip by double-clicking it, and 
perform the insert operation from there. This way you can set the snap 
point before inserting a clip.
3.The clip is inserted on the selected track or on a new 
audio track.
If several tracks are selected, the clip will be inserted on the first selected 
track.
Using drag and drop
When using drag and drop to...

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Removing regions
To remove a region from the Pool, select it and select “De-
lete” from the Edit menu (or press [Backspace] or [Delete]). 
ÖFor regions there is no alert if the region is used in the 
project!
Locating events and clips
Locating events via clips in the Pool
If you want to find out which events in the project refer to a 
particular clip in the Pool, proceed as follows:
1.Select one or more clips in the Pool.
2.Select “Select in Project” on the Media menu.
All events that refer...

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2.Move the mouse pointer over the “Name” text to the 
right of the name field and click on the arrow that appears.
3.The Extended Search pop-up menu opens.
It contains six options determining which search criterion is displayed 
above the Location field (Name, Size, Bitsize, Channels, Sample Rate or 
Date), as well as the Add Filter and Presets submenus.
The search criteria have the following parameters:
 Name: partial names or wildcards (*)
 Size: Less than, More than, Equal, Between (two...

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Locate missing files
1.Select “Find Missing Files” from the Media or context 
menu.
The Resolve Missing Files dialog opens. 
2.Decide if you want the program to try to find the file for 
you (Search), if you want to do it yourself (Locate) or if you 
want to specify in which directory the program should 
search for the file (Folder).
If you select Locate, a file dialog opens, allowing you to 
locate the file manually.
Select the file and click “Open”.
If you select Folder, a dialog opens to...

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If you have activated the Audition Loop button before you 
audition, the following will happen:
When you click the Audition button to audition a clip, 
the clip is repeated indefinitely until you stop playback by 
clicking the Audition or Audition Loop button again.
When you click in the waveform image to audition, the 
section from the point you clicked to the end of the clip is 
repeated indefinitely until you stop playback.
Opening clips in the Sample Editor
The Sample Editor allows you...

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When you select a file in the Import Medium dialog and 
click Open, the Import Options dialog opens:
It contains the following options:
Copy File to Working Directory
Activate this if you want a copy of the file to be made in the Audio folder 
of the project, and have the clip refer to this copy. If the option is off, the 
clip will refer to the original file in the original location (and will thus be 
marked as “external” in the Pool – see “About the Status column sym-
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To do this, proceed as follows:
1.Select the Audio folder or any audio clip.
You cannot designate the Video folder (or any of its subfolders) as the 
Pool Record folder.
2.Select “Create Folder” on the Media or context menu.
A new empty subfolder named “New Folder” appears in the Pool.
3.Select the new folder and rename it as desired.
4.Select “Set Pool Record Folder” on the Media or con-
text menu, or click in the Status column of the new folder.
The new folder now becomes the Pool Record...