Steinberg Cubase 6 Quick Start Guide Spanish Version

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Mute and solo
Each track has a Mute (M) and Solo (S) button. Activating Mute prevents you 
from hearing the track. When you solo a track, the other tracks become muted 
so that you hear only the soloed track(s). You can have several tracks muted or 
soloed at a time. 
•If you want to deactivate all the mutes or solos, click the “Deactivate all Mute” 
or “Deactivate all Solo” buttons in the common panel on the left side of the 
Mixer.
Adding EQ
EQ or equalization amplifies or attenuates frequencies so that you can place 
each instrument correctly in the mix. EQ settings depend greatly on the style of 
music that you are mixing. In this section you will get to know the EQ features 
in Cubase. Proceed as follows:
1.In your project, select an audio track with a drum recording.
2.Set up a cycle and play it back so that you can hear the EQ changes you 
are making.
3.Open the Mixer.
4.Solo the track and click the “Edit Audio Channel Settings” button.
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The VST Audio Channel Settings window opens, where you can make your EQ 
settings. There are four EQ bands on each track.
5.In the Equalizers section, activate the EQs by clicking the corresponding 
“EQ Band Active” buttons. 
You can also click in the EQ curve area to turn on an EQ.
6.Click and move the EQ point in the display. 
•Set up the gain by moving the EQ point up or down. 
The gain makes that particular EQ louder or softer.
•Set up the frequency by moving the EQ point right or left.
ÖIf you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command], you can restrict the movement of the 
EQ to vertical adjustment. If you hold down [Alt]/[Option], you can restrict the 
movement of the EQ to horizontal adjustment.
•Change the quality (Q) of the EQ by holding down [Shift] and moving the EQ 
curve up or down.
•You can bypass the EQs by clicking on the “Bypass Equalizers” button.
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•You can reset the EQ settings by [Alt]/[Option]-clicking the “Bypass Equaliz-
ers” button.
Experiment with the EQs on all your tracks. It is usually better to take away EQ 
(lower the gain) than to add it.
Using EQ presets
If you do not want to set up your EQs from scratch, you can load a preset 
instead:
1.Click the “Preset Management” button and choose a sound from the list.
2.Adjust the settings to your liking. 
3.Store the EQ settings as a new preset by clicking the “Preset Manage-
ment” button again and selecting the “Save Preset…” option.
A dialog opens, allowing you to enter a name and save the new preset.
Audio effects
You will now learn to use some effects. You can add effects by inserting them 
directly on a track or by creating an FX channel and using the auxiliary sends of 
each track to send the audio to that FX channel.
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Insert effects
Insert effects let you apply an effect to a single channel. In this example, you will 
apply compression to a bass track to smooth it out. Proceed as follows:
1.Open the Mixer.
2.Set up a cycle using the left and right locators.
3.Make sure that the Cycle button is activated and start playback.
That way you can hear the changes you make. Cycle playback is described in the section “Cycle playback” on page 39.
4.Select the bass track of your recording and click its “Edit Audio Channels 
Settings” button.
The VST Audio Channel Settings window opens.
5.In the Inserts section, click on the first insert slot.
The effects pop-up menu opens.
6.Select “VSTDynamics” from the Dynamics submenu.
The VSTDynamics plug-in is loaded into the insert slot and the plug-in panel opens.
Click here to open the 
effects pop-up menu.
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7.Set up the parameters in the Compressor section to your liking. 
The plug-in parameters are described in detail in the PDF document “Plug-In Reference”.
FX channels
In this section you will learn how to create and use FX channels. This is very 
useful if you want to apply an effect to several channels at once. In this exam
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ple, you will add reverb to several tracks of a project:
1.Open the Project menu and select “FX Channel” from the Add Track sub-
menu.
The Add FX Channel Track dialog opens.
2.Select the “RoomWorks” effect from the Reverb category, choose “Stereo” 
for Configuration, and click the “Add Track” button.
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3.Experiment with the reverb settings until you get the room ambience that 
you want.
The effect parameters are described in detail in the PDF document “Plug-In Reference”.
4.Open the Mixer and click the “Edit Audio Channels Settings” button of one 
of your audio tracks.
The VST Audio Channel Settings dialog opens.
5.In the Sends section, click on the first effect slot and choose “FX1-Room-
Works” from the pop-up menu.
The FX channel is loaded into the send effect slot.
6.Click the On/Off button above the effect slot to activate the send. 
7.Move the slider to the right to raise the level of the send to the “Room-
Works” effect. You will notice the ambience created by the reverb effect. 
ÖBy soloing the track you will be able to hear this effect more clearly.
8.Repeat the previous four steps for any channels to which you want to apply 
the reverb effect.
The great thing about FX channels is that they look and feel just like regular 
audio channels. If you set an EQ for an FX channel, only the effect will be 
changed by the EQ.
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Exporting a mixdown
Now that the project is mixed, you can export it so that it can be imported into 
another program such as a CD burning application. Proceed as follows: 
1.On the Transport panel, make sure that the left and right locators are set to 
the beginning and the end of your recording, respectively.
Cubase will export the section between the left and right locators.
2.Open the File menu, and on the Export submenu select “Audio Mixdown…”.
The Export Audio Mixdown dialog opens. This dialog is described in detail in the chapter “Export 
Audio Mixdown” in the Operation Manual.
3.In the Channel Selection section, choose the main output channel “Stereo 
Out” for export.
The exported file will be generated through the main stereo output.
4.In the File Location section, enter a file name in the Name field.
5.Open the “Path Options” pop-up menu to the right of the Path field and 
select “Choose…” to specify the folder in which the mixdown will be saved. 
Use the option “Use Project Audio Folder” if you want to store the exported file in your project’s 
audio folder. This is one of the best places to keep it so it will not accidentally become erased or 
lost.
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6.In the File Format section, select the file type. 
Most common is the “Wave File” format. Which format to choose depends on the application that 
you want to use the exported file in.
7.In the “Audio Engine Output” section, choose the sample rate and bit depth 
for your export.
44.100 kHz and 16 bit are common for CD burning.
8.In the “Import into Project” section, activate the Pool and “Audio Track” 
options.
That way the audio is imported back into Cubase after the export and placed on a new audio track. 
9.Activate the “Real-Time Export” option.
This ensures that the MIDI data is sent to the external MIDI instrument in realtime and recorded 
back in properly.
10.Click the Export button.
Your audio is exported to the specified location and imported on a new audio track in your project.
You can check if the audio mixdown sounds the way you want it by soloing the 
mixdown track.
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