Steinberg Cubase Ai 5 Manual

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If you have activated the Audition Loop button before you 
audition, the following will happen:
When you click the Audition button to audition a clip, 
the clip is repeated indefinitely until you stop playback by 
clicking the Audition or Audition Loop button again.
When you click in the waveform image to audition, the 
section from the point you clicked to the end of the clip is 
repeated indefinitely until you stop playback.
Opening clips in the Sample Editor
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It contains the following options:
Copy File to Working Directory
Activate this if you want a copy of the file to be made in the Audio folder of 
the project, and have the clip refer to this copy. If the option is off, the clip 
will refer to the original file in the original location (and will thus be marked 
as “external” in the Pool – see “About the Status column symbols” on 
page 145).
Convert to Project section
Here you can choose to convert the sample rate (if the sample rate is dif-...

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Minimize File
The option “Minimize File” on the Media or context menu 
allows you shrink the audio files according to the size of 
the audio clips referenced in a project. The files produced 
using this option only contain the audio file portions actu-
ally used in the project. This can significantly reduce the 
size of the project, if large portions of the audio files are 
unused. Therefore, the option is useful for archiving pur-
poses after you have completed a project.
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Options
When you convert a file, you can use the Options pop-up 
to set one of the following options regarding what to do 
with the new file:
Conform Files
By using this command, you will change all selected files 
that have different file attributes than what is specified for 
the project, to conform to this standard.
Proceed as follows:
1.Select the clips in the Pool.
2.Select “Conform Files…” on the Media menu.
A dialog opens allowing you to choose between keeping or replacing the...

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Working with Track Presets 

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Working with Track Presets
Introduction
Track presets are templates from audio, MIDI or instrument 
tracks that can be applied to newly created or existing 
tracks of the same type. They contain sound and channel 
settings, thus allowing you to quickly browse, preview, se-
lect and change sounds, or reuse channel settings across 
projects. 
Types of track presets
There are four kinds of track presets (audio, instrument, 
MIDI and Multi) and two kinds of VST presets (VST Instru-
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Working with Track Presets
VST effect plug-ins are available in VST3 and VST2 for-
mat. Presets for these effects are also saved as VST pre-
sets. These that can be part of audio track presets (see 
“Audio track presets” on page 156).
ÖIn this manual, “VST presets” stands for VST3 Instru-
ment presets, unless stated otherwise.
Applying track presets
When you apply a track preset, all saved settings are ap-
plied, see “Types of track presets” on page 156. Track 
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Applying Inserts and EQ settings from track 
presets
Instead of handling complete track presets, it is also pos-
sible to apply Insert or Equalizer settings from track pre-
sets:
1.Select the desired track, open the Inspector or the 
Channel Settings window and click the VST Sound button 
on the Inserts or Equalizers tab/section.
The presets pop-up menu is opened. 
2.Select “From Track Preset…” in the pop-up menu.
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Track presets are saved within the application folder in the 
“Track Presets” folder (in default subfolders named accord-
ing to their track type: audio, MIDI, instrument and multi).
Creating tracks from track presets 
or VST presets
Using drag and drop
1.Open the Save Track Preset dialog for the desired 
track type and select a preset.
2.Drag and drop the preset onto the Track list in the 
Project window.
One or more (in case of multi track presets) tracks will be created....

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Remote controlling Cubase AI