Steinberg Cubase 6 Quick Start Guide

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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
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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.
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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....

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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...

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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...

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