Steinberg Cubase LE 4 Operation Manual

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Fades and crossfades
Curve Kind
These determine whether the fade curve should consist of 
spline curve segments (left button), damped spline seg-
ments (middle button) or linear segments (right button).
Fade display
Shows the shape of the fade curve. The resulting wave-
form shape is shown in dark grey, with the current wave-
form shape in light grey.
You can click on the curve to add points, and click and 
drag existing points to change the shape. To remove a 
point from the curve, drag it outside...

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Fades and crossfades
Creating crossfades
Overlapping audio material on the same track can be 
crossfaded, for smooth transitions or special effects. You 
create a crossfade by selecting two consecutive audio 
events and selecting the Crossfade command on the Au-
dio menu (or by using the corresponding key command, 
by default [X]). The result depends on whether the two 
events overlap or not:
If the events overlap, a crossfade is created in the over-
lapping area.
The crossfade will be of the default...

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Fades and crossfades
The Crossfade dialog
The Crossfade dialog contains separate, but identical, 
sections for the fade-in and fade-out curve settings in the 
crossfade on the left, and common settings on the right.
Fade Displays
Shows the shape of the fade-out and fade-in curve, re-
spectively. You can click on the curve to add points, and 
click and drag existing points to change the shape. To re-
move a point from the curve, drag it outside the display.
Curve kind buttons
These buttons determine...

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Fades and crossfades
Length settings
You can adjust the length of the crossfade area numeri-
cally in the “Length” field. If possible, the length change 
will be applied equally to “both sides” of the crossfade 
(i.e. Cubase LE tries to “center” the crossfade).
Presets
If you have set up a crossfade shape that you may want to 
apply to other events, you can store it as a preset by click-
ing the Store button.
To apply a stored preset, select it from the pop-up 
menu. 
To rename the selected preset,...

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Fades and crossfades
6.If you want to use the settings you have made in future 
projects, click the “As Default” button.
The next time you create a new project, it will use these settings by default.
7.Click OK to close the dialog.
Making Auto Fade settings for a separate 
track
By default, all audio tracks will use the settings you have 
made in the project’s Auto Fades dialog. However, since 
Auto Fades use computing power, a better approach may 
be to turn Auto Fades off globally and activate them...

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Folder tracks 

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Folder tracks
About folder tracks
Just as the name implies, a folder track is a folder that con-
tains other tracks. Moving tracks into a folder is a way to 
structure and organize tracks in the Project window. For 
example, grouping several tracks in a folder track makes it 
possible for you to “hide” tracks (thus giving you more 
working space on the screen). You can solo and mute 
several tracks in a quicker and easier way and perform 
editing on several tracks as one entity. Folder tracks can...

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Folder tracks
Muting a folder track
You can mute a folder track (and thereby mute all tracks 
within it) the same way you mute other tracks by clicking in 
the Mute (“M”) button in the Track list.
Soloing a folder track
You can solo a folder track (and thereby mute all tracks 
outside the folder, except those already set to Solo) the 
same way you solo other tracks, by selecting it and click-
ing the Solo button.
Soloing or muting tracks within a folder
This can be done by showing the tracks in the...

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Folder tracks
An example
Editing tracks within folder parts
Tracks inside a folder can be edited as one entity by per-
forming the editing directly on the folder part containing 
the tracks as explained above. You can also edit individual 
tracks within the folder by showing the contained tracks, 
selecting parts and opening editors as usual.
Double-clicking a folder part opens the editors for the cor-
responding track classes present in the folder. The follow-
ing applies:
All MIDI parts located on...

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Using markers