Steinberg Cubase 6 Quick Start Guide Spanish Version

							Quick Start Guide 
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							Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Marion Bröer, Sabine Pfeifer, Heike Schilling
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Table of Contents
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							5 — Table of Contents
8  Introduction
9  Welcome!
10  About the documentation and the help
12  About the program versions
13  Key command conventions
13  How you can reach us
14  System requirements and installation
15  About this chapter
15  Minimum requirements
18  Installing Cubase
20  License activation
20  Register your software
20  Hardware installation
24  Creating your first project
25  About this chapter
25  The Project Assistant dialog
26  Saving, closing, and opening projects
28  Selecting the driver for your audio device
29  Setting up the VST connections
32  Recording audio
33  About this chapter
33  Creating a mono track
34  Turning on the metronome click
35  Setting levels
37  Recording
38  Playback
42  Recording MIDI
43  About this chapter
43  Creating an instrument track
44  Browsing sounds
46  Recording
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48  Mixing and effects
49  About this chapter
49  Setting levels for the mix
50  Setting panorama
51  Mute and solo
51  Adding EQ
53  Audio effects
57  Exporting a mixdown
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Introduction
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							9 — Introduction
Welcome!
Congratulations and thank you for purchasing Steinberg’s Cubase 6 or 
Cubase Artist 6. 
First released in 1989, Cubase has grown from a classic MIDI sequencer to 
possibly the most advanced music production system used by countless musi
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cians, producers and composers all over the globe. The Cubase philosophy puts 
the latest computer and audio technologies at your disposal, inviting you to ven
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ture into new artistic territory and give your creativity free reign. Combining the 
very best sound quality, intuitive handling and a vast range of highly advanced 
audio and MIDI tools for composition, recording, editing and mixing, the sixth ver
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sion of the Cubase family condenses over 25 years of Steinberg development 
into the most cutting-edge set of digital audio workstations anywhere.
Whether you are a professional, a hobby musician, a student or a teacher — 
Cubase has it all covered and supports you through every stage of music pro
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duction, from the inception of the first fleeting idea through its development, 
right to the final mix. And because it has been built to support individual creativ
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ity, Cubase owners are among the most successful artists in just about any 
musical genre or activity conceivable, from engineers recording and mixing rock 
albums to dance DJs, hip-hop producers, songwriters creating pop hits, film 
composers scoring for Hollywood blockbusters or anything in between. If you 
are entirely new to Cubase, you just became a member of this large community 
of professionals and music enthusiasts! Check out the official Cubase world
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wide community at Cubase.net, for tips and tons of other useful information.
If you take a closer look at your software package, you’ll notice that we 
included several trial versions which will further encourage you to push your 
creative envelope as you explore other Steinberg software titles. Detailed infor
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mation on the trials is available in the Start Center which automatically runs as 
soon as you insert the Cubase DVD.
Please do not forget to register on MySteinberg in order to gain access to 
online support offers and additional exclusive services.
We wish you a lot of musical inspiration working with your brand-new Cubase 
DAW.
See you around! Your Steinberg Cubase Team
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About the documentation and the help
The Cubase documentation is divided into several sections, as listed below. 
The documents are available in Adobe Acrobat format (extension .pdf) and can 
be accessed as follows:
•You can open the PDF documents from the Documentation submenu on the 
Help menu in the program.
•Under Windows you can also open these documents from the Cubase Doc-
umentation subfolder on the Windows Start menu.
•Under Mac OS X the PDF documents are located in the folder “/Library/
Documentation/Steinberg/Cubase 6”.
ÖTo read the PDF documents, you need to have a suitable PDF reader appli-
cation installed on your computer.
The Quick Start Guide
This is the document you are reading. It covers the following areas without 
going into details:
• Computer requirements, installation procedure, and license activation.
• Setting up your system for audio and MIDI work.
• Creating a project, recording, and mixing.
The Operation Manual
The Operation Manual is the main Cubase reference documentation, with 
detailed descriptions of operations, parameters, functions, and techniques.
MIDI Devices
This document contains descriptions of how to manage MIDI Devices and 
device panels.
Plug-in Reference
This document describes the features and parameters of the included VST 
plug-ins, VST instruments, and MIDI effects.
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