Steinberg Cubase 7 User Manual

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•To zoom in or out, horizontally, resize the viewing area by dragging its left or right 
edge.
•To define a new viewing area, click in the upper half of the Overview and drag a 
rectangle. 
The ruler
The Sample Editor ruler is located between the overview line and the waveform 
display. The ruler is explained in detail in the section 
“The ruler” on page 50. When the 
Definition tab is open, an additional ruler displays the musical structure of the audio 
file.
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•Select the “Show Half Level Axis” option on the context menu of the waveform 
display, if you want the half level axes to be shown.
General functions
Zooming
Zooming in the Sample Editor is done according to the standard zoom procedures, 
with the following special notes to keep in mind:
•The vertical zoom slider changes the vertical scale relative to the height of the 
editor window, in a way similar to the waveform zooming in the Project window 
(see 
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•The current zoom setting is shown in the info line, as a “samples per screen pixel” 
value.
ÖYou can zoom in horizontally to a scale of less than one sample per pixel! This is 
required for drawing with the Draw tool (see 
“Drawing in the Sample Editor” on page 
335).
•If you have zoomed in to one sample per pixel or less, the appearance of the 
samples depends on the “Interpolate Audio Images” option in the Preferences 
dialog (Event Display–Audio page).
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Scrubbing
The Scrub tool allows you to locate positions in the audio by playing back, forwards, 
or backwards, at any speed:
1.Select the Scrub tool.
2.Click in the waveform display and keep the mouse button pressed.
The project cursor is moved to the position where you clicked.
3.Drag to the left or right.
The audio is played back. The speed and pitch of the playback depend on how fast 
you drag.
Adjusting the snap point
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To open a clip in the Sample Editor, double-click it in the Pool. After having set the 
snap point, you can insert the clip into the project from the Pool or the Sample Editor 
with the set snap point position.
Drawing in the Sample Editor
It is possible to edit the audio clip at sample level by drawing with the Draw tool. This 
can be useful if you need to manually edit out a spike or click, etc.
Proceed as follows:
1.Zoom in to a zoom value lower than 1.
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ÖSeveral of these options are also available on the Sample Editor context menu.
Editing selection ranges
Selections in the Sample Editor can be processed in several ways. 
If you attempt to edit an event that is a shared copy (i. e. the event refers to a clip that 
is used by other events in the project), you are asked whether you want to create a 
new version of the clip.
•Select “New Version” if you want the editing to affect the selected event only. 
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Cut, Copy, and Paste
The Cut, Copy, and Paste commands (on the Edit menu, on the Process tab of the 
Sample Editor Inspector, or on the main Edit menu) work according to the following 
rules:
•Selecting Copy copies the selection to the clipboard.
•Selecting Cut removes the selection from the clip and moves it to the clipboard.
The section to the right of the selection is moved to the left to fill the gap.
•Selecting Paste copies the data from the clipboard into the...

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Handling Several Audio Events
When you open the Sample Editor with several events selected, the editor contains a 
few functions that facilitates working with multiple audio events. These functions are 
designed to display and edit the VariAudio segments of several audio events in 
context. For further information on VariAudio, see 
“VariAudio (Cubase only)” on page 
353.
•The “Currently Edited Audio Event” pop-up menu on the toolbar lists all audio 
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Editing regions
The region selected in the list is displayed in gray in the waveform display and the 
overview line.
There are two ways to edit the start and end positions of a region:
•Click and drag the region start and end handles in the waveform display (with any 
tool).
When you move the pointer over the handles, it automatically changes to indicate 
that you can drag the handles.
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Selecting an algorithm for realtime playback
On the Algorithm pop-up menu on the toolbar you can select the algorithm preset to 
be applied during realtime playback. This setting affects warp changes in Musical 
Mode, FreeWarp, and Swing. For the VariAudio warping and pitching features, the 
“Standard – Solo” preset must be used and is applied automatically.
The pop-up menu contains various options that govern the audio quality of the 
realtime time stretching....