Steinberg Cubase LE 4 Getting Started Manual

Getting Started 

Tutorials by Steve Kostrey
Revision for Cubase LE and Quality Control:
Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Sabine Pfeifer
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of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The software described by this document is subject to a License Agreement 
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Table of Contents 

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Table of Contents
5Introduction
6Welcome
6About the manuals and the help
7About the program versions
7Key command conventions
8System requirements and installation
9About this chapter
9Minimum requirements
10Hardware Installation
11Installing Cubase LE
11Registering your software
11Defragment the hard disk (Windows only)
11Installing the Additional Content
12Setting up your system
13Setting up audio
17Setting up MIDI
18Connecting a synchronizer
19Setting up video 
19Optimizing audio performance...

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Introduction 

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Introduction
Welcome
Congratulations and welcome to the world of Cubase. You 
have now become a member of the worlds largest commu-
nity of music production software users. Looking back at 
more than 20 years of innovation in computer-based music 
production, Steinberg has always been the driving force 
behind software technology and Cubase is the benchmark 
for this development. With Version 4, Cubase is taking the 
next evolutionary step towards a totally integrated software 
and hardware system....

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Introduction
Menu Reference
This pdf document provides a list of all menus and their 
options with a brief description, for quick reference.
The dialog help
To get information about the active dialog, click its Help 
button.
About the program versions
The documentation covers two different operating sys-
tems or “platforms”; Windows and Mac OS X. 
Some features and settings are specific to one of the plat-
forms, Windows or Mac OS X. This is clearly stated in the 
applicable cases. In other words:
ÖIf...

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System requirements and installation 

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System requirements and installation
About this chapter
This chapter describes the requirements and installation 
procedures for the Windows version and the Mac version 
of Cubase LE. 
Minimum requirements
To use Cubase LE, your computer must meet the follow-
ing minimum requirements:
Windows
 Windows XP (Home or Professional)
 Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz processor

 Windows DirectX compatible audio hardware; 
ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended for low 
latency performance.
 Display...

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System requirements and installation
About drivers
A driver is a piece of software that allows a program to 
communicate with a certain piece of hardware. In this 
case, the driver allows Cubase LE to use the audio hard-
ware. For audio hardware, there are two different cases, 
requiring different driver configurations:
If the audio hardware has a specific ASIO driver
Professional audio cards often come with an ASIO driver 
written especially for the card. This allows for communica-
tion directly...