Steinberg Cubase 6 Manual
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111 Quantizing MIDI and audio However, if you have selected the “Quantize Link” option on the Length Quantize pop-up menu, the function resizes the notes according to the quantize grid, taking the Swing, Tuplet, and Catch Range settings into account. Quantize MIDI Event Ends The “Quantize MIDI Event Ends” function on the Edit menu, Advanced Quantize submenu, moves the ends of your MIDI notes to the nearest grid positions, taking the Quantize pop-up menu setting into account. Freeze MIDI Quantize...
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112 Quantizing MIDI and audio Grid display In the middle of the Quantize Panel the grid display is shown. The green lines indicate the quantize grid, i. e. the positions that audio or MIDI is moved to. The grid display showing a 1/32 grid Randomize This setting allows you to set a “distance” in ticks (120 ticks correspond to one 16th note), so that your audio or MIDI is quantized to random positions within the specified distance from the quantize grid. This creates a loose quantizing and allows...
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113 Quantizing MIDI and audio Options for quantizing to a musical grid Quantizing to a grid is useful if you want to place your re- corded audio or MIDI on the nearest position that is musi- cally relevant. Grid On this pop-up menu you can determine the basic value for the quantize grid. Swing This parameter lets you offset every second position in the grid, creating a swing or shuffle feel. When you adjust the Swing parameter, the result is shown in the grid display. This setting is only available...
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114 Quantizing MIDI and audio Length (MIDI only) Use this parameter to specify how much the length of the notes is affected by the groove. This is done by modifying the note-off value. ÖFor drums, the Length setting will be ignored as drum sounds cannot be sustained. Pre-Quantize This pop-up menu lets you quantize your audio or MIDI to a musical grid before groove quantizing. This helps you to get the notes closer to their groove destination. For example, if you apply a shuffle groove to a 16th...
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115 Quantizing MIDI and audio If you open the Quantize Panel for an edit group and at least one of the tracks has hitpoints, the “Slice Rules” section appears. The section “Slice Rules” In this section you determine how the audio events are sliced at the hitpoints. Hitpoint Tracks In this column, all audio tracks of your edit group that have hitpoints are displayed. Priority In this column, you define a priority for each track. This specifies which hitpoints are used to slice your audio events....
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116 Quantizing MIDI and audio The Quantize section After having sliced your audio events, you can proceed with setting up the quantize parameters, see “Options for quantizing to a musical grid” on page 113 or “Options for quantizing to a groove” on page 113. Quantize Click this button to apply your settings and quantize your audio. The Crossfades section The Crossfades section only appears after you have sliced your audio. The functions in this section are designed to correct the overlaps or the...
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118 Fades, crossfades and envelopes Creating fades There are two types of fade ins and fade outs in audio events in Cubase: event-based fades that you create by us - ing the fade handles and clip-based fades created by pro- cessing (see “Clip-based fades” on page 119). Event-based fades Selected audio events have triangular handles in the up- per left and right corners. These can be dragged to create a fade in or fade out, respectively. Creating a fade in. The fade is automatically reflected in the...
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119 Fades, crossfades and envelopes • If you select a range encompassing a middle section of the event, but not reaching neither the start nor the end, a fade in is created from the beginning of the event to the beginning of the selected range, and a fade out is created from the end of the selected range to the end of the event. About the volume handle A selected audio event also has a square handle in the top middle: the volume handle. It provides a quick way of changing the volume of an event in...
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120 Fades, crossfades and envelopes The Fade dialogs The Fade dialogs appear when you edit an existing fade or use the Fade In/Fade Out functions on the Process sub - menu of the Audio menu. The picture below shows the Fade In dialog; the Fade Out dialog has identical settings and features. If you open the Fade dialog(s) with several events se- lected, you can adjust the fade curves for all these events at the same time. This is useful if you want to apply the same type of fade in to more than one...