Steinberg Cubase Essential 4.5 New Features Manual

New Features in Cubase Essential 4.5 

Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Marion Bröer, Sabine Pfeifer
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Table of Contents 

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Table of Contents
5Introduction
6Welcome!
7Working with the new features
8VST Sound
8Plug and Play support for ASIO devices
8Automatically generated VST Connection presets
8Mac OS X improvements
9Remote Devices
9Key Commands for MediaBay options
10Routing the metronome click to a VST Instrument
10Suspending Autoscroll
10New option in the Project Synchronization Setup 
dialog
11Index 

Introduction 

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Introduction
Welcome!
Welcome to Cubase Essential 4.5! This version adds sup-
port for the Advanced Integration Controller CC121 and 
the Advanced Integration FireWire Interfaces MR816 X/
MR816 CSX  together with new features for every Cubase 
Essential user.
This document lists and describes the features that have 
been added to or modified in the program since version 4.1.
About the program versions
The documentation covers two different operating sys-
tems or “platforms”; Windows and Mac OS X. 
Some...

Working with the new features 

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Working with the new features
VST Sound
With version 4.5, Steinberg introduced VST Sound, a new 
version of the SoundFrame media management system that 
is directly integrated into VST3. VST Sound allows direct 
integration into the MediaBay to third party manufacturers 
of plug-ins and instruments, and encompasses all formats 
and file types previously supported by SoundFrame such as 
audio, loops, VSTi presets, video, MIDI files and track pre-
sets. VST Sound has now replaced SoundFrame, which 
was...

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Working with the new features
5.Activate the “Use CoreAudio Channel Names” option.
6.When you now open the VST Connections window to 
set up the busses in your system, you will find that the port 
names in the Device Port column correspond to the 
names that are used by the CoreAudio driver.
ÖIf you want to use the project later on with an earlier 
version of Cubase Essential, you will have to re-assign the 
port connections in the VST Connections window.
Port selection and activation
On the settings...

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Routing the metronome click to a 
VST Instrument
When setting up a metronome MIDI click, you can use a 
VST Instrument to provide the sound for the click.
1.On the Transport menu, select “Metronome Setup…”.
2.In the MIDI Click section, open the MIDI Port/Channel 
pop-up menu and select a VST Instrument from the list.
Note that the instrument must have been set up in the VST Instruments 
window. Make sure that Activate MIDI Click is activated.
When you now start playback...