Steinberg Cubase Essential 4 Getting Started French Version Manual

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Background
The MediaBay is an area in Cubase Essential that helps to 
find, identify, tag and organize your sounds (VST 3 Pre-
sets and track presets), audio loops, video and project 
files.
You’ll hear and read about two different terms associated 
with the MediaBay: SoundFrame and MediaBay.
SoundFrame is the overall concept of managing the ever-
growing number of plug-ins, instruments, presets, etc. The 
tool that links all of the plug-ins, instruments and presets...

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Making visible the different sections of the 
MediaBay
At the bottom left hand side of the MediaBay window 
there are 2 buttons allowing you to show/hide the different 
MediaBay sections. These are:


1.Hide the Browser and Scope sections.
We are left with the Viewer display and Filter section. These two sections 
allow us to view and find files.
2.Show the Browser section.
This is where you can specify locations on your computer so that the 
MediaBay can find all of your...

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By default File system is checked, however, it contains 
many locations you would not want scanned. Be sure to 
check which areas/folders you want MediaBay to manage. 
The areas/folders that you pick will automatically be 
scanned and the result of that scan can be seen in the 
Viewer section.
Sound Frame
The Sound Frame locations are the virtual locations on 
your computer to any factory content or user presets cre-
ated for plug-ins, instruments or MIDI-loops. Make sure...

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Right-click on Media and select “Refresh” from the con-
text menu to begin scanning.
This starts the scanning process and now the MediaBay is looking for 
media on your computer within the locations you have specified.
Scanning indicator and status
When the MediaBay is scanning for media on your com-
puter, a visual indicator in the upper right hand corner of 
the Viewer section will be displayed.
The scanning status for the individual folders in the 
Browser section is...

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1.Choose a main category from the filter section (like 
“Drum/Perc”).
This will show us any files that have been tagged with the category Drum 
& Perc. See “Tagging” on page 66.
2.Choose a sub category if appropriate (like “Beats”).
This allows us to narrow down our search even more.
There is a list of drum loops that are now available to us in 
the Viewer display with our filter criteria. We can simply 
drag and drop any of these audio files into our project. Al-...

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3.Activate Auto Play.
With Auto Play activated we can click on many different audio files in the 
Viewer display and audition them quickly.
4.Click Start on the Transport panel.
The project will begin to play and the audio files you have selected in the 
Viewer display will play along in time with the project.
5.Click on different audio files to find the one that works 
best with the project.
You can use the up and down arrow keys on your computer keyboard to 
quickly...

Index 

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Index
A
Adding
EQ 54
Loops 49
Mono Track 26
Adding a fade 37
Advanced settings 22
All MIDI Inputs 20
ASIO 2.0 18
ASIO Direct Monitoring 18
ASIO driver
About 10
DirectX 10
DirectX Setup 10, 17
Installing 11
Audio
Editing 32
Processing 38
Recording 23
Audio buffer size 22
Audio hardware
Connections 14
Setup application 15
Automation
About 57
B
Browser
Scanning 62
C
Click
Activating 27
Close
Project 25
Connecting
Audio 14
MIDI 18
Controller lane 47
Copying 36
Events 50
MIDI notes 46
Cycle
Playback 29...

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Index
MIDI
Copying notes 46
Cycle Playback 44
Cycle recording 44
Editing 40
Erasing notes 45
Playback 43
Quantizing 45
Recording 40, 42
Recording modes (cycle off) 44
MIDI Input
Setting 42
MIDI Interface
Connecting 18
Installing 11
MIDI notes
Creating 46
Drawing 46
MIDI ports
Setting up 20
MIDI Thru Active 19
Mixing
About 51
Modifier keys 7
Monitoring
About 18
Moving 35
Mute 53
Muting 37
N
New Project
Create 24
Save 25
Normalize 38
O
Open
Project 25
Recent Projects 25
Optimizing the Hard Disk
Windows...

Cubase Essential 4 – Einführung