Steinberg Cubase 7 User Manual

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•If you press [Alt]/[Option] while dragging up/down, the tilt anchor is used as an 
axis around which the micro-pitch curve can be rotated.
4.Repeat the steps above to set anchors and tilt the micro-pitch curve until you are 
satisfied with the result.
•If you want to remove a tilt anchor from a segment, hold down [Alt]/[Option], 
position the mouse pointer at the top border of the segment until it turns to a glue 
tube, and click.
The tilt anchor is deleted....

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MIDI Input
You can change the pitch on the fly by selecting the segment you want to change and 
pressing a key on your MIDI keyboard or using the Virtual Keyboard (see 
“The Virtual 
Keyboard” on page 108). 
Proceed as follows:
1.After having corrected the segmentation, select the segment for which you would 
like to change the pitch.
2.Activate the Pitch & Warp tool and click the MIDI Input button.
3.Press a key on your MIDI keyboard or use the Virtual...

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To warp a segment, proceed as follows:
1.On the VariAudio tab activate the Pitch & Warp tool.
2.To change the timing of a segment, move the mouse pointer over the start/end of 
the segment.
The mouse pointer becomes a double arrow and the warp markers are displayed in 
the ruler.
3.Drag the start/end of the segment to the desired position. 
If the Snap button is activated, the segment border will snap to the grid. When you 
drag the segment border, warp...

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You can of course change the segmentation to achieve this, but if you want to pitch 
your audio afterwards, this would affect also any non-tonal portions of the audio. If this 
is not what you want, proceed as follows:
1.Activate the Pitch & Warp tool and activate the Snap button.
In this example the beginning of the segment does not correspond to the beginning of the 
waveform.
2.Move the mouse pointer over the start of the segment so that it becomes a double...

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Reset
This pop-up menu at the bottom of the VariAudio tab allows you to reset the 
modifications you performed with the Pitch & Warp tool. It also lets you reset the 
changes you made in Segments mode by reanalyzing the audio and returning to the 
original segmentation. The following options are available:
ÖYou can set up key commands for the reset and the reanalyze function in the Sample 
Editor category of the Key commands dialog (see 
“Key commands” on page...

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Extracting MIDI
You can extract a MIDI part from your audio. This is useful if you have an audio event 
with a certain tune and sound and you want to create an identical second tune with a 
MIDI instrument or VST instrument. The extracted MIDI part can also be used to print 
out notes from within the Score Editor or it can be exported as a MIDI file (see 
“Exporting and importing standard MIDI files” on page 692). Furthermore, you can 
convert the audio to...

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The Sample EditorGenerating Harmony Voices for Monophonic Audio
The following options are available:
7.On the Destination pop-up menu, specify where the MIDI part will be placed.
The following options are available: 
ÖIf you have opened the Sample Editor from the Pool and the audio file is not part of 
your project, the MIDI part will be inserted at the beginning of the project.
8.Click OK.
A MIDI part is created according to the specified settings.
You can also use a key command to extract a MIDI...

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The Sample EditorFlattening realtime processing
3.On the Audio menu, select “Generate Harmony Voices…”.
4.Specify the number of voices that you want to create and enter a value for the 
vibrato reduction.
The new voices follow the soprano, alto, tenor, and bass voices from the chord 
track voicing. 
•To open all voices in the Sample Editor, activate the “Open Sample Editor After 
Completion” option.
This allows you to view and edit the different voices. For further information, see 
“Handling Several...

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Proceed as follows:
1.Select the audio events that you want to process.
2.On the Audio menu, open the Realtime Processing submenu and select the 
Flatten command.
Provided that the time stretching factor is not outside the range of 0.5 and 2, a 
dialog opens where you can select an algorithm for the processing.
•If the audio has been transposed, the dialog also contains the “Formant 
Correction” option. You can activate this, for example, if you want to...

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Whether the “Unstretch Audio” menu item is available depends on whether the time 
stretching has been applied at event or clip level:
•If you have sized an audio event in the Project window using “Sizing Applies Time 
Stretch” (see 
“Resizing events using time stretch” on page 77), you can undo the 
time stretching by selecting the event in the Project window and then applying 
“Unstretch Audio”.
This removes all time stretching and warp markers.
•When...