Steinberg Cubase SE 3 Getting Started Manual

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This setting should produce a fairly good result.
7.Turn off solo to see how the drum sound works with the other tracks.
When you activate an EQ module, the EQ indicator in the channel 
strip lights up green. This shows that one or several EQ modules are 
activated for the channel, and also serves as a bypass button:
8.To compare the sound with and without EQ, click the EQ indicator/
Bypass button in the channel strip.
The button turns yellow when Bypass is activated...

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Now we will move on to the electric piano track, and try a slightly dif-
ferent approach:
9.Click the small arrow button in the lower left corner of the Channel Set-
tings window and select “E.Piano” from the pop-up menu that appears.
This selects the E.Piano mixer channel – the Channel Settings window will now show 
the settings for that channel instead.
This time we will try adjusting the EQ in the curve display:
10.Click in the curve display and keep the mouse...

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Audio effects
Cubase SE comes with a number of audio effect plug-ins (VST plug-
ins). These can be used as send effects or insert effects.
Adding a send effect
Send effects in Cubase SE make use of FX channel tracks – “effect 
return” tracks, each holding one effect plug-in (or several, in series). 
Each audio track has eight different effect sends, which can each be 
routed to any FX channel track. This allows for extremely flexible effect 
handling.
In brief, this...

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3.Pull down the Plugin pop-up menu.
The effects included with Cubase SE are organized in subfolders according to the ef-
fect type. Typical send effects are reverb, delay and other effects where you want to 
add a little bit of effect to the original dry signal.
4.Select “DoubleDelay” from the Delay submenu and click OK.
The control panel for the “DoubleDelay” effect appears. We’ll look closer at the control 
panel in a moment – first take a look at the Track list:
An...

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6.Click the “e” button for the FX channel strip.
The Channel Settings window appears.
The first insert effect slot holds the DoubleDelay plug-in.
7.OK, let’s look at the control panel for the effect. If it’s obscured by the 
other windows you can click the “e” button for the DoubleDelay slot 
twice to bring the panel to front.
8.Use the pop-up menu to select the “Large” preset.
9.Since we want to use this as a send effect we don’t want any dry (un-
processed) signal...

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Setting up a send
1.Go back to the mixer and locate the channel strip for the Strings track.
2.Click the “e” button in the Strings channel strip to open its Channel 
Settings window.
The effect sends are located to the right of the EQ section – currently they are all unused 
(shown as empty slots).
3.Click in the first empty effect send slot and select your FX channel 
from the pop-up menu that appears.
4.Click the power button for the first slot to activate the...

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Adding an insert effect
An insert effect is inserted into the signal chain of an audio channel, 
which means that the whole channel signal passes through the effect. 
This also means that only one track or channel will use the insert effect 
– unlike send effects, where signals from several channels can all be 
sent to the same effect.
In our tutorial, we will add some chorus to the electric piano track.
1.Click the “e” button in the “E.Piano” channel strip (or use...

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3.Select “Chorus” from the Modulation submenu.
The effect is loaded and automatically activated, and its control panel appears.
4.Play back the project and try selecting different chorus presets.
• In this case we inserted an effect on a mono track – this means the out-
put from the effect will still be in mono.
To get a stereo chorus, we would need to add the chorus as a send effect instead.  

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Automation
All mixer parameters can be automated in Cubase SE. In the final ex-
ample in this chapter, we will do a simple fade in for the electric piano 
track, so that it starts inaudible and reaches its full level at bar 9, where 
the strings start:
1.Arrange your windows so that you can see both the events in the 
Project window and the mixer.
This is not strictly necessary but it makes it easier to see where the electric piano starts.
2.Turn off Cycle on the...

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10.Click the R button for the channel.
This activates automation read mode.
11.Play back the project from the start.
You will see your automated fader movement and hear the electric piano fade in.
That concludes this tutorial! If you are happy with the result, you may 
want to save the project under a different name, by selecting “Save 
As…” from the File menu.