Steinberg Cubase Essential 4 Plug-In Reference Manual

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The included effect plug-ins
Octaver
This plug-in can generate two additional voices that track 
the pitch of the input signal one octave and two octaves 
below the original pitch, respectively. Octaver is best used 
with monophonic signals. The parameters are as follows:
Tuner
This is a guitar tuner. Simply connect a guitar or other in-
strument to an audio input and select the Tuner as an in-
sert effect (make sure you deactivate any other effect that 
alters pitch, like chorus or vibrato). When the...

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The included effect plug-ins
Restoration plug-ins
This section contains descriptions of the plug-ins in the 
“Restoration” category.
Grungelizer
The Grungelizer adds noise and static to your recordings 
– kind of like listening to a radio with bad reception, or a 
worn and scratched vinyl record. The available parameters 
are as follows:
Reverb plug-ins
This section contains descriptions of the plug-ins in the 
“Reverb” category.
RoomWorks SE
RoomWorks SE is a high-quality reverb plug-in. Room-
Works...

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The included effect plug-ins
Spatial plug-ins
This section contains descriptions of the plug-ins in the 
“Spatial” category.
MonoToStereo
This effect will turn a mono signal into a “pseudo-stereo” 
signal. The plug-in must be inserted on a stereo track 
playing a mono file to work.
The parameters are as follows:
StereoEnhancer
This plug-in will expand the stereo width of (stereo) audio 
material. It cannot be used with mono files.
The parameters are as follows:
    
Parameter Description
Width This...

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HALionOne 

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HALionOne
Introduction
HALionOne is a sample player that can play sound content 
in the *.hsb (HALion Sound Bank) format. These samples 
have associated preset files that store the panel settings 
and reference the HSB samples. Included are several pre-
sets (as *.vstpreset and *.trackpreset files).
The operation of HALionOne is very simple; load a preset 
(*.vstpreset or *.trackpreset file for an Instrument Track) and 
start playing! You do, however, have the option to tweak the 
basic parameters to...

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HALionOne
Locate Contents
If you have moved the HALionOne content files to a differ-
ent location (i. e. any other location than the folder in which 
it was stored at installation time), you need to use the Lo-
cate Contents function to inform HALion One about 
where to find its files. This is done as follows:
Right-click anywhere on the control panel and select 
“Locate contents”.
A file dialog opens where you can navigate to the folder location.
HALionOne and MIDI files
When the Preferences option...

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MIDI effects 

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MIDI effects
Introduction
This chapter describes the included MIDI realtime effects 
and their parameters.
How to apply and handle MIDI effects is described in the 
chapter “MIDI realtime parameters and effects” in the Op-
eration Manual.
Arpache 5
A typical arpeggiator accepts a chord (a group of MIDI 
notes) as input, and plays back each note in the chord 
separately, with the playback order and speed set by the 
user. The Arpache 5 arpeggiator does just that, and more. 
Before describing the...

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MIDI effects
Autopan
This plug-in works a bit like an LFO in a synthesizer, allow-
ing you to send out continuously changing MIDI controller 
messages. One typical use for this is automatic MIDI pan-
ning (hence the name), but you can select any MIDI Con-
tinuous Controller event type. The Autopan effect has the 
following parameters:
Waveform selectors
These determine the shape of the controller curves sent 
out. The results of most of these waveforms are obvious 
from looking at the buttons, but a...

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MIDI effects
Chorder
The Chorder is a MIDI chord processor, allowing you to as-
sign complete chords to single keys in a multitude of varia-
tions. There are three main modes of operation: Normal, 
Octave and Global. You switch between these modes by 
clicking the respective button to the left below the key-
board.
Normal mode
In this mode, you can assign a different chord to each sin-
gle key on the keyboard. Proceed as follows:
1.Select the key to which you want to assign a chord, by 
clicking in...