Steinberg Cubase 6 Manual

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Editing tempo and signature
Matching a musical score to video
Here’s an example of how to use the Time Warp tool in 
“musical events follow” mode. Let’s say you are creating 
the music for a film. You have a video track, an audio track 
with a commentary and some audio and/or MIDI tracks 
with your music. Now you want to match the position of a 
musical cue to a position in a video film. The musical cue 
is located in bar 33. There are no tempo changes in the 
project (yet). Proceed as follows:...

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11.Now match the second musical cue to the correct 
video position by dragging the musical position to the 
desired time position as before.
The new tempo event is edited – the first tempo event is unaffected and 
the original cue is still matched.
•If you know you are going to match several cues this 
way, make it a habit to press [Shift] each time you use the 
Time Warp tool to match positions.
This adds a new tempo event – that way, you do not have to add tempo 
events...

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9.Locate the last beat that is in sync.
This would be the beat just before the position where the audio and 
tempo drift apart.
10.Press [Shift] and click at that position to insert a tempo 
event there.
This locks this matched position. The material to the left will not be affected 
when you make adjustments further along.
11.Now match the tempo grid to the next (unmatched) 
beat by clicking and dragging with the Time Warp tool.
The tempo event you inserted in step 10...

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The Tempo Detection Panel
The Tempo Detection Panel contains the functions for an-
alyzing the tempo of an audio event. It is opened via the 
Project menu.
In the top section of the panel, the name of the selected 
audio event is shown. Below the name, the Analyze button 
is located. Click this button to start the tempo detection 
for an event.
The middle section contains several functions for correct-
ing and fine-tuning the detected tempo curve. These func-
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The detected tempo has jumps and spikes although it 
should be steady
If you get the message that the algorithm has detected ir-
regular tempo changes, even though you know that the 
material has a more or less steady tempo, you can use the 
“Smooth Tempo” function.
•To retrigger the tempo analysis based on the assump-
tion that the event has a steady tempo, click the “Smooth 
Tempo” button.
Irregular spikes or tempo changes are removed during this analysis.
The detected...

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Adjusting the audio to the project 
tempo
If you want freely recorded audio to follow a fixed tempo or 
a different project tempo, you can use the Set Definition 
From Tempo dialog to save the tempo information from 
the tempo track in the corresponding audio clips.
Proceed as follows:
1.Select the audio events that you want to have follow 
the project tempo.
For example, this could be the individual tracks in a multi-track drum 
session. 
2.On the Audio menu, open the...

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The Project Browser (Cubase only) 

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The Project Browser (Cubase only)
Window Overview
The Project Browser window provides a list based repre-
sentation of the project. This allows you to view and edit all 
events on all tracks by using regular value editing in a list.
Opening the Project Browser
You open the Project Browser by selecting “Browser” from 
the Project menu. The Browser window can be open while 
you are working in other windows; any changes made in the 
Project window or an editor are immediately reflected in the 
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•You can sort events in the display by columns, by click-
ing the column heading.
For example, if you want to sort events by their start positions, click that 
column heading. An arrow appears in the column heading, indicating that 
events are sorted by that column. The direction of the arrow indicates 
whether the events are sorted in ascending or descending order. To 
change the direction, click the column heading again.
Importing files via the MediaBay
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The list columns for audio parts
Creating audio parts
When the “Audio” item of an audio track is selected in the 
Project Structure list, you can create empty audio parts on 
the track by clicking the Add button on the toolbar. This 
will insert a part between the left and right locator.
Editing MIDI tracks
Just like audio tracks, MIDI tracks can have two “subitems”: 
Track Data and Automation.
• The Track Data item corresponds to the actual MIDI track in 
the...