Steinberg Cubase LE Getting Started Manual

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OK, that’s much better, but there are still things to fix. For example, the 
Wah guitar event ends after one bar, while the other events last two 
bars. Let’s add a copy of the guitar event:
7.Press [Alt]/[Option], click the Wah guitar event and drag it one bar to 
the right.
A copy of the event is created.
As you can see, the names of the Wah guitar events are shown in italics. This 
indicates that these are shared copies – they use the same...

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Muting and erasing events
A quick way of adding variation is to remove stuff. We could for exam-
ple let the different instruments appear gradually instead of all at the 
same time:
1.Select the Mute tool from the toolbar.
2.Click on the first two Bass Synth events, and then on the first two Hi 
Strings events.
They are “greyed out” indicating that they’re muted.
3.Start playback from the beginning.
Fine, now the bass appears at bar 3 and the...

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Splitting and resizing events
Well, maybe that wasn’t such a good idea after all – it may have been 
better with some guitar from the beginning, but maybe with some vari-
ation. Here’s an idea:
1.Pull down the Edit menu and select Undo.
The last deleted guitar event reappears.
2.Select Undo again.
The first guitar event appears. 
With the undo function you can undo the 10 last actions. However, 
we will only need one guitar event for this:...

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6.Click with the Scissors tool at fourth beat in the Wah guitar event (at 
the beat just before the start of bar 3).
The event is split in two; one three beat long and another one beat long. If you were to 
play back this section now, you wouldn’t hear any difference, though.
7.Select the Arrow tool again.
8.Drag the first guitar event two beats to the left and play back.
Not too bad, but we could use a little more guitar in the second bar:...

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Adding a fade
The strings in bar 5 appear rather abrupt – they would benefit from 
being faded in:
1.Click on the first Hi Strings event with the Arrow tool.
The event is selected. The blue handles at the top are fade and volume handles.
2.Click at the upper left handle and drag it to the right.
A thin blue line indicates the fade-in.
3.Play back to hear the fade.
You can adjust the length of the fade by dragging the handle. 
It’s not bad, but it...

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6.Click OK to close the dialog and play back the section again.
Now we would want the same fade to be applied to the second string 
event. While we could repeat the settings manually, it’s probably eas-
iest to copy the faded event:
7.Remove the second string event by clicking it with the Eraser tool.
8.Press [Alt]/[Option] and drag the first string event two bars to the 
right.
As you can see, the copied event retains the fade you created.
That...

10
Tutorial 5: Using VST
Instruments 

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About this tutorial
This tutorial shows you how to set up and use VST Instruments – soft-
ware synthesizers (or other sound sources) that are contained within 
Cubase LE.
Preparations
Just like the previous chapter, this tutorial is based on an existing file, 
included on the Cubase LE CD.
• Below, we assume that you have followed the previous tutorial and cop-
ied the “LE Tutorial” folder to your hard drive.
If not, please see page 98.
1.Close any open...

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The “Tutorial 5” project opens. If you followed the previous tutorial, 
this will look oddly familiar... It’s the same eight-bar “song” that you 
created in tutorial 4, but with three extra tracks. 

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Activating a VST Instrument
The three tracks at the bottom of the track list are MIDI tracks, as indi-
cated by the MIDI connector symbol in the track list. As you can see, 
one of the tracks is called “MIDI Bass” – our first goal in this tutorial is 
to replace the “Bass” audio track with a bass sound from a VST In-
strument.
1.Pull down the Devices menu and select VST Instruments.
The “rack” that appears can contain up to 8 VST Instruments. However,...