Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual

Customizing
Applying colors in the Project window
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Color fields
Click a field to open a color selector pane that allows you to specify a new color.
Click Options for the following options.
Append New Color
Adds a new color button at the bottom of the color list.
Insert New Color before Selection
Adds a new color button above the selected color button.
Remove Selected Color
Removes the selected color.
Reset Selected Color
Resets the selected color to the factory settings.
Increase/Reduce Intensity of...

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Adding and editing individual colors
In the Project Colors dialog, you can fully customize the color palette. To add new 
colors to the color palette, proceed as follows:
PROCEDURE
1. Add a new color by clicking the Insert New Color button.
2. In the Project Colors section, click the newly created color field to activate the 
new color for editing.
3. Use the Standard Colors or Modify Color sections to specify a new color.
To do this, pick a different color...

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• On Windows systems, preference files are stored in the following location: 
“\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\\”.
On the Start menu, you will find a shortcut to this folder for easy access.
• On Mac OS X systems, preference files are stored in the following location: 
“/Library/Preferences//” under your home directory.
The full path is: “/Users//Library/Preferences//”.
NOTE
The RAMpresets.xml file, which contains various presets settings (see below), is...

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•Disable program preferences
Disables the current preferences, and opens the program with the factory 
default settings instead.
•Delete program preferences
Deletes the preferences and opens the program with the factory default 
settings instead. This process cannot be undone. Note that this affects all 
versions of Cubase installed on your computer.
RELATED LINKS
Preferences on page 1051 

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Optimizing
Optimizing Audio Performance
This section gives you some hints and tips on how to get the most out of your 
Cubase system, performance-wise. Some of this text refers to hardware properties 
and can be used as a guide when upgrading your system. Look for details and 
current information on the Cubase web site.
Performance Aspects
Tracks and Effects
The faster your computer, the more tracks, effects, and EQ you are able to play. 
Exactly what constitutes a fast computer is almost a science...

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System Factors That Affect Performance
RAM
The more RAM is installed in your computer, the better.
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On computers running a Windows 32-bit operating system, a running application 
can address a maximum of 2 GB of RAM. On a Macintosh computer running 32-bit 
Mac OS X, this limit is 4 GB. The 64-bit versions of Windows and Mac OS X are 
able t o assign c onsider ably mo re t han 4 GB of RAM to a running 64-bit application.
The...

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Hard Disk and Controller
The number of hard disk tracks that you can record and play back at the same time 
also depends on the speed of your hard disk and hard disk controller. If you use 
E-IDE disks and controllers, make sure that the transfer mode is DMA Busmaster. 
Under Windows, you can check the current mode by launching the Windows 
Device Manager and looking for properties of the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller’s 
primary and secondary channel. DMA transfer...

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Multi Processing
When Multi Processing is activated and there is more than one CPU in your system, 
the processing load is distributed evenly to all available CPUs, allowing Cubase to 
make full use of the combined power of the multiple processors.
• To activate Multi Processing, select Devices > Device Setup, select VST 
Audio System, and activate Multi Processing.
VST Performance Window
This window shows the audio processing load and the hard disk transfer...

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NOTE
You can show a simple view of the performance meter on the Transport panel and 
on the Project window toolbar. These meters only feature the average and the disk 
indicator.
ASIO-Guard
The ASIO-Guard allows you to shift as much processing as possible from the ASIO 
realtime path to the ASIO-Guard processing path. This results in a more stable 
system.
The ASIO-Guard allows you to preprocess all channels as well as VST instruments 
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3. Activate the Activate ASIO-Guard option.
NOTE
This option is only available, if you activate Multi Processing.
4. Select an ASIO-Guard Level.
The higher the level, the higher the processing stability and audio processing 
performance. However, higher levels also lead to an increased ASIO-Guard latency 
and memory usage.