Steinberg Cubase 5 Operation Manual

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Recording from busses
You can also select an output bus, a group bus or an FX 
channel bus as an Input for your recording. 
Let’s assume you want to create a downmix of separate 
tracks, e.g. bass drum, hihats, snare etc. 
Proceed as follows:
1.Set up your separate tracks as desired and add a 
group track.
2.For each of the drum tracks, open the Output Routing 
pop-up menu and select the Group track as output. 
3.Create a new audio track, open the Input Routing pop-
up menu for it and select...

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3.Play back the audio and check the level meter for the 
input channel.
The signal should be as loud as possible without exceeding 0 dB (the 
Clipping indicator for the input bus should not light up).
The Clipping indicator
4.If necessary, adjust the input level in one of the follow-
ing ways:
Adjust the output level of the sound source or external 
mixer.
Use the audio hardware’s own application program to 
set the input levels (if possible).
See the documentation for the audio hardware.
If...

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Monitoring
In this context, “monitoring” means listening to the input 
signal during recording. There are three fundamentally dif-
ferent ways to do this: via Cubase, externally (by listening 
to the signal before it reaches Cubase), or by using ASIO 
Direct Monitoring (which is a combination of both other 
methods – see below).
Monitoring via Cubase
If you monitor via Cubase, the input signal is mixed in with 
the audio playback. The advantage of this is that you can 
adjust the monitoring...

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ÖIf you want to use external monitoring, you need to make 
sure that monitoring via Cubase is not activated as well.
Select the “Manual” monitoring mode in the Preferences (VST page) and 
do not activate the Monitor buttons.
ASIO Direct Monitoring
If your audio hardware is ASIO 2.0 compatible, it may sup-
port ASIO Direct Monitoring (this feature may also be 
available for audio hardware with Mac OS X drivers). In 
this mode, the actual monitoring is done in the audio hard-
ware, by sending...

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Recording overlapping events
The basic rule for audio tracks is that each track can play 
back a single audio event at a time. This means that if two 
or more events are overlapping, only one of them will be 
heard at any given time.
What happens when you record overlapping events 
(record in an area where there are already events on the 
track) depends on the Linear Record Mode setting on the 
Transport panel:
In “Normal” or “Merge” mode, recording where some-
thing has already been...

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Create Events mode (Preferences)
When “Audio Cycle Record Mode” is set to “Create 
Events” in the Preferences (Record–Audio page), the fol-
lowing will happen when you record audio in cycle mode:
One continuous audio file is created during the entire 
recording process. 
For each recorded lap of the cycle, one audio event is 
created.
The events will have the name of the audio file plus the text “Take *”, 
where “*” indicates the number of the take.
The last take (the last recorded lap) will...

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To play back the different “takes”, proceed as follows:
1.In the Project window, holding [Alt]/[Option], right-
click the event that was created during cycle recording.
Provided that the “Popup Toolbox on Right Click” option in the Preferen-
ces dialog (Editing–Tools page) is activated, this brings up the context 
menu.
2.Select the “Set To Region” menu item.
A submenu appears with the takes you recorded during cycle record.
3.Now you can select any of the takes from the submenu 
and it will...

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5.To turn off the lane display mode for the track, click the 
Lane Display Type button in the Track list and select “Lanes 
Off”.
If the button is hidden, you can bring it to view in the Track Controls Set-
tings dialog – see “Customizing track controls” on page 472.
The Lane Display Type button
Recording with effects (Cubase only)
Normally you record the audio signals “dry” and add ef-
fects non-destructively during playback as described in 
the chapter “Audio effects” on page 150. However,...

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Now the extended panel for the input channel shows the 
insert slots.
6.Click on an insert slot and select an effect from the 
context menu.
As you see, the included effects are sorted into submenus – you will find 
the SoftClipper effect on the “Distortion” submenu.
The effect is loaded and activated and its control panel is 
automatically opened.
7.Adjust the effect parameters to your liking.
For detailed information on the Effect parameters, see the separate man-
ual “Plug-in Reference”....

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3.Click the track name in the Inspector to make sure the 
topmost section is shown.
4.Pull down the Input Routing pop-up menu and select 
an input.
The available MIDI inputs are shown. The items on the menu depend on 
the type of MIDI interface you are using, etc. 
If you select the “All MIDI Inputs” option, the track will 
receive MIDI data from all available MIDI inputs.
If you hold down [Shift]-[Alt]/[Option] and select a MIDI 
input, this will be used for all selected MIDI tracks....