Steinberg Cubase LE Operation Manual

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• If there is no selection, the whole part will be played back. Note that if the project 
cursor is within the part, playback starts from the current cursor position. If the 
project cursor is outside the part, playback starts from the beginning of the part.
• If the Loop icon is activated, playback will continue until you deactivate the Play 
icon. Otherwise, the section will be played back once.
Scrubbing
In the Audio Part Editor, the Scrub tool has a separate...

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Common methods
Assembling a “perfect take”
When you record audio in Cycle mode an event is created for each re-
corded lap (see page 32). These are named “Take X”, where “X” is the 
number of the take. You can create a perfect take by putting together 
sections of the different takes in the Audio Part Editor. First, you have to 
create an audio part from the takes.
Creating an audio part
1.In the Project window, use the Object Selection tool to draw a rectan-
gle...

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Assembling a take
1.Double click the part to open the Audio Part Editor.
Now, the different takes will be placed on different lanes, with the last take at the bottom.
2.Use the tools to cut out pieces of the takes and assemble the final 
result.
This could include splitting with the Scissors tool, resizing events with the Arrow tool, 
muting events with the Mute tool or deleting with the Eraser tool. 
•Remember that the events on the lowest lane have playback...

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Options and Settings
The following options and settings are available in the Audio Part 
Editor:
•Snap
You can specify an independent Snap mode (and snap value for the Grid mode) in the 
editor. The functionality is exactly the same as in the Project window.
•Snap to Zero Crossing
The Snap to Zero Crossing setting is global for the project, which means that if you ac-
tivate it in the Audio Part Editor, it will also be activated in the Project window and 
Sample...

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Working with hitpoints and
slices 

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Background
Hitpoint detection is a special feature of the Sample Editor. It auto-
matically detects attack transients in an audio file, and then adds a 
type of marker, a “hitpoint”, at each transient. These hitpoints allow 
you to create “slices”, where each slice ideally represents each indi-
vidual sound or “beat” in a loop (drum or other rhythmic loops work 
best with this feature). When you have successfully sliced the audio 
file, you can do a...

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Using Hitpoints
The basic functionality of using hitpoints to slice up a loop is to make 
a loop fit the tempo of a song, or alternatively to create a situation that 
allows the song tempo to be changed whilst retaining the timing of a 
rhythmic audio loop, just like when using MIDI files. 
What audio files can be used?
Here are some guidelines to what type of audio files will render the 
best results when slicing files using hitpoints:
•Each individual...

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6.Click the Hitpoint Mode button on the Sample Editor toolbar.
The program calculates the hitpoints in the event.
The Hitpoint Mode button.
7.As you now can see, hitpoints have been set at the beginning of each 
sound in the loop (or at least at most sounds), and the right half of the 
toolbar now shows the Sensitivity slider and additional pop-ups.
Make sure that the “Use” pop-up is set to “Sense”.
8.If you now move the Hitpoint Sensitivity slider to...

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9.Once the hitpoints have been set correctly, enter the length of the 
loop (using the Bars and/or Beats value fields) and the time signature.
The “original” tempo of the loop is now displayed to the right on the Sample Editor 
toolbar. This tempo is based on the length specified for the loop. Note however that 
the loop will adapt to the tempo set in Cubase LE in the next step.
10.Pull down the Audio menu, and select “Create Slices” from the Hit-...

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Editing hitpoints
In this section, we go back a bit and look at what can be done with hit-
points in the Sample Editor. There are three ways to invoke the hitpoint 
calculation:
• Select Calculate from the Hitpoints submenu on the Audio menu.
• Click the Hitpoint Mode button in the Sample Editor toolbar.
• Select the Hitpoint Edit tool from the toolbar or Quick menu.
The last two methods will calculate hitpoints if they haven’t already been calculated....