Steinberg Cubase 5 Operation Manual

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Working with Track Presets
ÖYou can also drag and drop track presets from the 
Windows Explorer or the Mac OS Finder, but in this case, 
no preview for track presets is possible.
Applying track or VST presets in the Inspector 
or the context menu of the track
1.Select a track in the Project window.
2.Click the VST Sound button in the Inspector or right-
click the track to open the context menu and select “Apply 
Track Preset”.
The Presets browser opens. Here, the files are presented in list form....

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Working with Track Presets
Extracting sound from an instrument track or 
VST preset
For instrument tracks, you can extract the “sound” of an 
instrument track preset or VST preset, that means the VST 
Instrument and its settings.
Proceed as follows:
1.Select the instrument track to which you want to apply 
a sound.
2.Click the VST Sound button below the Output Rou-
ting field in the Inspector. 
The Presets browser opens, showing a list of all available 
presets. 
3.Select an instrument track preset...

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Working with Track Presets
Creating tracks from track presets 
or VST presets
Using drag and drop
1.Open the Sound Browser from the Media menu.
2.Select a track or VST preset from the list of all presets. 
3.Hit the Play button on the Transport panel to preview 
the selected VSTpreset.
All settings will be applied in realtime to the selected track. If you set up 
your target track to a cycle and play back in loop, previewing will be very 
comfortable. Note that you cannot preview multi track...

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Working with Track Presets
Using a MIDI file
1.Open the “Browse Sounds” dialog and select a MIDI 
or instrument track preset or a VST preset.
The preview buttons appear on the lower right. (In the Sound Browser, 
the preview buttons appear in the Scope section.)
2.Click the Choose MIDI File button, select a MIDI file 
(.mid) in the file dialog that appears and click OK.
3.Click the MIDI Input button and activate “Play” (the 
Play button is now available).
The chosen MIDI file file will be played back...

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Track Quick Controls 

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Track Quick Controls
Introduction
Cubase can give you instant access to up to eight para-
meters of each audio, MIDI or instrument track. This is 
done with the aid of the so-called quick controls, set up 
on the Quick Controls Inspector tab for these tracks.
The Quick Controls tab can be used as a kind of track con-
trol center, an area in which your most important parame-
ters are assembled in one place. This saves you from having 
to click your way through the various windows and sections...

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Track Quick Controls
Setting up quick controls on an 
external remote controller
Quick controls become really powerful when used in com-
bination with a remote controller.
Setting up the connection between the slots on the Quick 
Controls Inspector tab and a remote control device is 
easy. Proceed as follows:
1.In Cubase, open the Device Setup dialog from the De-
vices menu.
2.In the Devices list on the left, select the Quick Con-
trols option.
This will open the Quick Controls section on the right...

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Track Quick Controls
Quick controls and automatable 
parameters
The quick controls feature has one special extension: you 
can use quick controls not only to access certain parame-
ters of the current track, but also to control all automatable 
parameters. This makes it possible to use the Quick Con-
trols tab of a dedicated track as a kind of “mini mixer”, con-
trolling parameters on other tracks. However, you should 
use this function with caution, as you might accidentally 
modify parameters on...

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Remote controlling Cubase 

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Remote controlling Cubase
Introduction
It is possible to control Cubase via MIDI. A large number of 
MIDI control devices is supported. This chapter describes 
how to set up Cubase for remote control. The supported 
devices are described in the separate pdf document “Re-
mote Control Devices”.
There is also a Generic Remote Device option, allowing 
you to use any MIDI controller to remote control Cubase.
How to set this up is described in the section “The Generic Remote de-
vice” on page 302.
Setting...