Steinberg Cubase Essential 4 Operation Manual

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ReWire
Activating ReWire channels
ReWire supports streaming of up to 64 separate audio 
channels, while ReWire2 supports 256 channels. The ex-
act number of available ReWire channels depends on the 
synthesizer application. Using the ReWire Device panels 
in Cubase Essential, you can specify which of the avail-
able channels you want to use:
1.Pull down the Devices menu and select the menu item 
with the name of the ReWire application. All recognized 
ReWire compatible applications will be available...

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ReWire
How the ReWire channels are 
handled in Cubase Essential
When you activate ReWire channels in the ReWire De-
vice panels, they will become available as channel strips in 
the mixer. The ReWire channel strips have the following 
properties:
ReWire channels appear to the right of the other audio 
and MIDI channel strips in the mixer.
ReWire channels may be any combination of mono and 
stereo, depending on the synthesizer application.
ReWire channels have the same functionality as regular 
audio...

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File handling 

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File handling
Working with Projects
New Project
The New Project command on the File menu allows you to 
create a new project, either empty or based on a template:
1.Select New Project from the File menu.
The templates list is displayed. When you install Cubase Essential, tem-
plates for various purposes are included, but you can also create your 
own (see “Save as Template” on page 305).
2.Select a template from the list or select “Empty”.
A file dialog opens, allowing you to specify a folder for the...

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File handling
Save and Save As
The commands Save and Save As allow you to save the 
active project as a project file (file extension “.cpr”). The 
Save command stores the project under its current name 
and location, while Save As allows you to rename and/or 
relocate the file. If a project has not been saved yet or if it 
hasn’t been changed since it was last saved, only Save As 
will be available.
A word about file extensions
Under Windows, file types are indicated by three letter file 
name...

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File handling
Save Project to New Folder
This function is very useful if you want to move or archive 
your project. 
1.Select “Save Project to New Folder”. 
A file dialog opens in which you can choose an existing, empty folder or 
create a new folder to save the project.
2.Click OK to confirm your choice.
The “Save to Folder Options” dialog opens with the following options:
3.Make the desired settings.
4.Click OK. 
The project is saved in the new folder. The original project is not affected....

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File handling
The following options are available:
Cubase Essential Open Document Options Dialog
This dialog will open in two cases:
If you launch Cubase Essential with the option “Show 
Open Options Dialog” selected on the “On Startup” pop-
up menu in the Preferences (General page).
If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] while launching Cu-
base Essential.
The Open Document Options Dialog.
The dialog lists your recently used projects.
To open a project, select it and click the “Open Selec-
tion” button....

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File handling
Selecting one of the Import Audio CD menu items brings 
up the following dialog:
To import one or more tracks, proceed as follows:
1.If you have more than one CD drive, select the correct 
one from the Drives pop-up menu top left.
On opening the CD, the program tries to retrieve the track names from 
CDDB (a CD database). If no connection to CDDB can be established 
or the CD track names are not found, you can manually change the ge-
neric track name in the Default Name field, see...

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File handling
If you want to copy and import a section of an audio CD 
track only, select the track in the list and specify the start 
and end of the selection to be copied by dragging the 
handles in the copy selection ruler.
Use the start and end audition buttons to fine tune the selection bound-
aries.
ÖNote that you can import sections of several audio CD 
tracks by selecting them in turn and adjusting the selec-
tion. The start and end settings for each track will be dis-
played in the list.
You...

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File handling
Importing compressed audio files
Cubase Essential can import (and export, see “Mixing 
down to an audio file” on page 273) several common au-
dio compression formats. The procedure is the same as 
when importing any non-compressed audio file, with one 
important thing to note:
When you import a compressed audio file, Cubase Es-
sential will create a copy of the file and convert this to Wave 
format (Windows) or AIFF format (Mac OS X) before im-
porting it. The original compressed file...