Steinberg Cubase SE 3 Operation Manual

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• The Trim buttons and the Nudge buttons are located in the Nudge palette, 
which is not visible in the toolbar by default. 
See page 561 for instructions on how to show and hide items in the toolbar.
Making selection ranges for several non-contiguous tracks
As described above, selection ranges can cover several tracks. How-
ever, it is also possible to exclude tracks from a selection range:
1.Create a selection range from the first to the last desired track.
2.Press...

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Using Cut, Copy and Paste
When working with selection ranges, you can either use Cut, Copy 
and Paste on the Edit menu, or use the functions “Cut Time” and 
“Paste Time” on the Range submenu on the Edit menu. These work 
differently to their related functions on the Edit menu:
Deleting selection ranges
Again, you can either use “regular” Delete or “Delete Time”:
•If you use the Delete function on the Edit menu (or press [Backspace]), 
the data within the selection...

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Other functions
On the Range submenu on the Edit menu, you will find three more 
range editing functions:
Options
Snap
The Snap function helps you to find exact positions when editing in 
the Project window. It does this by restricting horizontal movement 
and positioning to certain positions. Operations affected by Snap in-
clude moving, copying, drawing, sizing, splitting, range selection, etc.
•You turn Snap on or off by clicking the Snap icon in the toolbar.
Snap...

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1.Select an event.
2.Place the project cursor at the desired position within the selected 
audio event.
3.Pull down the Audio menu and select “Snap Point To Cursor”.
The snap point is set at the cursor position.
The snap point for an event is displayed as a blue line in the Project window.
Exactly how Snap works depends on which mode is selected on the 
Snap mode pop-up menu.
The following sections describe the different Snap modes:
Grid
In this mode, the Snap...

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Grid Relative
When you move events and parts in this mode they will not be “mag-
netic” to the grid. Rather, the grid determines the step size for moving 
the events. This means that a moved event will keep its original posi-
tion relative to the grid.
For example, if an event starts at the position 3.04.01 (one beat before 
bar 4), Snap is set to Grid Relative and the Grid pop-up is set to “Bar”, 
you can move the event in steps of one bar – to the positions 4.04.01,...

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Shuffle
Shuffle mode is useful when you want to change the order of adjacent 
events. If you have two adjacent events and drag the first one to the 
right, past the second event, the two events will change places.
The same principle works when changing the order of more than two 
events:
Magnetic Cursor
When this mode is selected, the project cursor becomes “magnetic”. 
Dragging an event near the cursor causes the event to be aligned with 
the cursor position.
Grid +...

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Snap to Zero Crossing
When this option is activated in the Preferences dialog (Editing–Audio 
page), splitting and sizing of audio events is done at zero crossings (po-
sitions in the audio where the amplitude is zero). This helps you avoid 
pops and clicks which might otherwise be caused by sudden amplitude 
changes.
This setting affects all windows in all open projects – with the exception 
of the Sample Editor (which has its own Snap to Zero Crossing button)....

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Folder tracks 

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About folder tracks
Just as the name implies, a folder track is a folder that contains 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...