Steinberg Cubase 6 Manual

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Automation
Automation Preferences
If you click the button in the bottom left of the Automation 
panel, you open the Automation Preferences. These are 
divided into General and Automation Settings. 
The following options are available:
Automation Settings
Hints and further options
Automation key commands
In the Key Commands dialog (opened from the File menu 
in Cubase), in the Commands section on the left, you will 
find an Automation category which lists all automation 
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The following options are available:
ÖThis pop-up menu is only available for controllers that 
can be recorded both for a part and a track. When the 
pop-up menu is not available in the track list, the current 
parameter will not cause any playback conflicts.
For a full list of all the parameters with potential automa-
tion data conflicts, open the MIDI Controller Automation 
Setup dialog, see below.
The settings you make for a controller are applied to all 
MIDI tracks that use this...

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•In the table in the lower section of the dialog, you can 
specify the record destination and the Automation Merge 
Mode separately for all the available MIDI controllers. This 
gives you full control over the MIDI automation (destina
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tion as well as merge mode) in your project. 
4.Click in the Record Destination column for a MIDI 
controller to open the pop-up menu where you can choose 
where you want recorded data of this particular MIDI Con
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troller to end up.
5.Click in the...

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Audio processing and functions
Background
Audio processing in Cubase can be called “non-destruc-
tive”, in the sense that you can always undo changes or 
revert to the original versions. This is possible because 
processing affects audio clips rather than the actual audio 
files, and because audio clips can refer to more than one 
audio file. This is how it works:
1.If you process an event or a selection range, a new 
audio file is created in the Edits folder, within your project 
folder. 
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The Preview, Process, and Cancel buttons
These buttons have the following functionality:
Pre/Post-Crossfade
Some processing functions allow you to gradually mix the 
effect in or out. This is done with the Pre/Post-Crossfade 
parameters. For example, if you activate Pre-Crossfade and 
specify a value of 1000
 ms, the processing is applied grad-
ually from the start of selection, reaching full effect 1000 ms 
after the start. Similarly, if you activate Post-Crossfade,...

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Fade In and Fade Out
For a description of these functions, see the chapter 
“Fades, crossfades and envelopes” on page 117.
Gain
Allows you to change the gain (level) of the selected au-
dio. The dialog contains the following settings:
Gain
This is where you set the desired gain, between -50 and 
+20
 dB. The setting is also indicated below the Gain dis-
play as a percentage.
Clipping detection text
If you use the Preview function before applying the pro-
cessing, the...

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Attack Time
The time it takes for the gate to open fully after the audio 
level has exceeded the threshold level.
Min. Opening Time
This is the shortest time the gate will remain open. If you 
find that the gate opens and closes too often when pro
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cessing material that varies rapidly in level, try raising this 
value.
Release Time
The time it takes for the gate to close fully after the audio 
level has dropped below the threshold level.
Linked Channels
This is...

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Pitch Shift
This function allows you to change the pitch of the audio 
with or without affecting its length. You can also create 
“harmonies” by specifying several pitches or apply pitch 
shift based on a user specified envelope curve.
When the Transpose tab is selected, the dialog contains 
the following parameters:
Keyboard display
This is a graphic overview of the transposition setting. 
Here, you can specify the transpose interval in semitones.
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Using envelope based Pitch Shift
When the “Envelope” tab is selected, you can specify an 
envelope curve on which the pitch shift will be based. This 
allows you to create pitchbend effects, pitch-shift different 
sections of the audio by different amounts, etc.
Envelope display
Shows the shape of the envelope curve over the wave-
form image of the audio selected for processing. Envelope 
curve points above the center line indicate positive pitch 
shift, while curve...