Steinberg Cubase Ai 5 Manual

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The Audio Part Editor
Operations
Note that if a part is a shared copy (i.e. you have previ-
ously copied the part by [Alt]/[Option]-[Shift] and drag-
ging), any editing you perform will affect all shared copies 
of this part.
To indicate that it is a shared copy, its name is displayed in italics and a 
symbol is displayed in the lower right corner of the part in the Project 
window.
Auditioning
There are three ways to listen to the events in the Audio 
Part Editor:
By using the Speaker tool
If you...

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The button “Show Part Borders” can be used if you 
want to see clearly defined borders for the active part.
When this is activated, all parts except the active one are grayed out, 
making the borders easily discernible. There are also two “markers” in 
the ruler with the name of the active part, marking its beginning and end. 
These can be moved freely to change the part borders.
“Show Part Borders” activated on the toolbar.
It is possible to cycle between parts, making them...

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The Pool 

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The Pool
Background
Every time you record on an audio track, a file is created 
on your hard disk. A reference to this file – a clip – is also 
added to the Pool. Two general rules apply to the Pool:
All audio and video clips that belong to a project are 
listed in the Pool.
There is a separate Pool for every project.
The way the Pool displays folders and their contents is 
similar to the way the Mac OS X Finder and the Windows 
Explorer display folders and lists of files.
In the Pool you can, among...

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How clips are displayed in the Pool
 Audio clips are represented by a waveform icon followed by 
the clip name.
 Video clips are represented by a camera icon followed by the 
clip name.
The Pool window columns
Various information about the clips can be viewed in the 
Pool window columns. The columns contain the following 
information:
About the Status column symbols
The Status column can display various symbols that relate 
to the clips status. The following symbols can be shown:
Sorting the...

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Customizing the view
You can specify which of the columns are shown or hid-
den by opening the View/Attributes pop-up menu on the 
toolbar and selecting/deselecting items.
You can rearrange the order of the columns by clicking 
on a column heading and dragging the column to the left 
or right.
The mouse pointer changes to a hand when you place it on the column 
heading.
The width of a column can also be adjusted by placing 
the pointer between two column headers and dragging 
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Note that the clip will be positioned so that its snap 
point is aligned with the selected insert position.
You can also open the Sample Editor for a clip by double-clicking it, and 
perform the insert operation from there. This way you can set the snap 
point before inserting a clip.
3.The clip is inserted on the selected track or on a new 
audio track.
If several tracks are selected, the clip will be inserted on the first selected 
track.
Using drag and drop
When using drag and drop to...

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The Pool
Locating events and clips
Locating events via clips in the Pool
If you want to find out which events in the project refer to a 
particular clip in the Pool, proceed as follows:
1.Select one or more clips in the Pool.
2.Select “Select in Project” on the Media menu.
All events that refer to the selected clip(s) are now selected in the Project 
window.
Locating clips via events in the Project window
If you want to find out which clip belongs to a particular 
event in the Project window, proceed...

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2.Move the mouse pointer over the “Name” text to the 
right of the name field and click on the arrow that appears.
3.The Extended Search pop-up menu opens.
It contains six options determining which search criterion is displayed 
above the Location field (Name, Size, Bitsize, Channels, Sample Rate or 
Date), as well as the Add Filter and Presets submenus.
The search criteria have the following parameters:
 Name: partial names or wildcards (*)
 Size: Less than, More than, Equal, Between (two...

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Locate missing files
1.Select “Find Missing Files…” from the Media or con-
text menu.
The Resolve Missing Files dialog opens. 
2.Decide if you want the program to try to find the file for 
you (Search), if you want to do it yourself (Locate) or if you 
want to specify in which directory the program should 
search for the file (Folder).
If you select Locate, a file dialog opens, allowing you to 
locate the file manually.
Select the file and click “Open”.
If you select Folder, a dialog opens...