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About this chapter
This chapter lists all main menu items in Cubase LE, for quick refer-
ence. However, you won’t find deeper explanations, backgrounds or 
procedures here – for this, please refer to the previous chapters in the 
manual.
Cubase LE menu (Mac OS X only)
About Cubase LE
This opens a window with information about the Cubase LE version 
number etc.
Preferences…
The Preferences dialog contains various settings and options. The di-
alog has several pages, that...

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File menu
New Project
This item allows you to create a new untitled project. A list appears al-
lowing you to select an empty project or a project template. The factory 
templates are preconfigured setups to suit various types of projects. A 
project can be saved as a template, and will then appear on this list.
After making a selection, a project file dialog appears allowing you to 
specify a folder where all files relating to the new project will be stored. 
Select an...

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Save Project to New Folder…
This item allows you to save the project into a new empty folder. It has 
some additional features that can be used for archiving purposes. 
When a new empty folder has been selected, a dialog appears where 
you can change the name of the project and set the following options:
•You can choose to minimize audio files.
This will crop files based on the audio clips referenced in the project. As the clips used 
in the project may be references to...

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Print…
Opens the standard Print dialog, allowing you to select which pages 
to print, how many copies of each etc.
Import
Audio File…
This command lets you import audio files directly into a project. The 
imported file will be placed at the current cursor position of the se-
lected audio track. 
Audio CD…
This opens the Import from Audio CD dialog where you can import au-
dio from CDs. For details about the dialog, see page 511 or use the 
Help function in the dialog....

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Export
MIDI File…
This allows you to export your MIDI files as a Standard MIDI file. See 
page 507 for more information.
Audio Mixdown…
This allows you to export all your audio tracks, complete with effects 
and automation to one or several audio files, in one of several file for-
mats. This is described on page 449.
Preferences…
• Under Mac OS X, the Preferences dialog is reached from the Cubase LE 
menu.
The Preferences dialog contains various settings and options. The...

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Quit
• Under Mac OS X, this item is reached from the Cubase LE menu.
This quits the program. If there are any unsaved changes in an open 
project, you will have the option of keeping these or discarding them 
before the program quits.
Edit menu
Undo/Redo
Cubase LE offers wide-ranging, multiple Undo, allowing you to undo 
the last 10 actions.
•To undo the last performed action, select Undo from the Edit menu, or 
use the corresponding key command (by default...

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Paste at Origin
This will paste an event to its original position, i.e. where it was origi-
nally cut or copied from.
Delete
This will delete all selected events.
Split at Cursor
This splits selected events at the cursor position. If no events are se-
lected, all events on all tracks intersected by the cursor will be split.
Split Loop
This splits all events at the left and right locator positions.
Range
The items on the Range submenu have the following functions:
Function...

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Select
The items on this submenu have different functions, depending on 
whether the regular event selection tool (Arrow tool) or the Range 
Selection tool is selected:
Event selection
Range selection
Option Description
All Selects all events in the window.
None Deselects all events.
In Loop Selects all events that are partly or wholly between the left 
and right locator.
From Start to Cursor Selects all events that begin to the left of the project cursor.
From Cursor to...

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Duplicate/Repeat…
•Duplicate creates a copy of the selected event and places it directly 
after the original.
If several events are selected, all of these are copied “as one unit”, maintaining the rel-
ative distance between the events.
•Selecting “Repeat…” from the Edit menu opens a dialog, allowing you 
to create a number of copies (regular or shared) of the selected event(s).
This works just like the Duplicate function, except that you can specify the number of...
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