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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fades, crossfades and envelopes 

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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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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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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...
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