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 [Ctrl]/[Command] and click in the selection range on the tracks 
you want to exclude from the selection.
3.In the same manner, you can add a track to the selection range by 
[Ctrl]/[Command]-clicking in the selection range area on the track.
Moving and duplicating
•To move a selection range, click and drag it to a new position.
This will move the contents of the selection range to the new position. If the range in-
tersected events or parts, these will be split before moving, so that only the sections 
within the selection range are affected.
•To duplicate a selection range, hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag.
You can also use the Duplicate, Repeat and Fill Loop functions, just as when duplicat-
ing events (see page 99). 
						

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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 range is replaced by empty track space.
Events to the right of the range keep their position.
•If you use “Delete Time” on the Edit menu’s Range submenu, the se-
lection range is removed and events to the right are moved to the left 
to close up the gap.
Function Description
Cut Cuts out the data in the selection range and moves it to the 
Clipboard. The selection range is replaced by empty track 
space in the Project window, meaning that events to the right 
of the range keep their positions.
Copy Copies the data in the selection range to the clipboard.
Paste Pastes the clipboard data at the start position and track of the 
current selection. Existing events are not moved to make room 
for the pasted data.
Paste at Origin Pastes the clipboard data back at its original position. Existing 
events are not moved to make room for the pasted data.
Cut Time Cuts out the selection range and moves it to the Clipboard. 
Events to the right of the removed range are moved to the left 
to fill out the gap.
Paste Time Pastes the clipboard data at the start position and track of the 
current selection. Existing events are moved to make room for 
the pasted data.
Paste Time at Origin Pastes the clipboard data back at its original position. Existing 
events are moved to make room for the pasted data. 
						

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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 activated.
• When you are moving audio events with Snap activated, it isn’t neces-
sarily the beginning of the event that is used as Snap position reference. 
Instead, each audio event has a snap point, which you can set to a rele-
vant position in the audio (such as a downbeat, etc.).
The snap point is preferably set in the Sample Editor since it will allow for a higher de-
gree of precision (see page 284). You can however also set the snap point directly in 
the Project window, in the following way: 
Function Description
Split Splits any events or parts that are intersected by the selection range, at the 
positions of the selection range edges.
Crop All events or parts that are partially within the selection range are cropped, 
that is, sections outside the selection range are removed. Events that are 
fully inside or outside the selection range are not affected.
Insert 
SilenceInserts empty track space from the start of the selection range. The length 
of the silence equals the length of the selection range. Events to the right of 
the selection range start are moved to the right to “make room”. Events that 
are intersected by the selection range start are split, and the right section is 
moved to the right. 
						

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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 positions are set with the Grid pop-up menu to 
the right. The options depend on the display format selected for the 
ruler. For example, if the ruler is set to show bars and beats, the grid can 
be set to bars, beats or the quantize value set with the next pop-up 
menu to the right. If a time- or frame-based ruler format is selected, the 
grid pop-up menu will contain time- or frame-based grid options, etc.
When seconds is selected as ruler format, the grid pop-up menu contains time-
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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, 
5.04.01 and so on. The event will keep its relative position to the grid, 
i.e. stay one beat before the bar lines.
•This only applies when dragging existing events or parts – when you 
create new events or parts this mode works like the Grid mode.
Events
In this mode, the start and end positions of other events and parts be-
come “magnetic”. This means that if you drag an event to a position 
near the start or end of another event, it is automatically aligned with 
the start or end of the other event. For audio events, the position of the 
snap point is also magnetic (see page 284).
•Note that this includes marker events on the marker track.
This allows you to snap events to marker positions, and vice versa. 
						

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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 + Cursor
This is a combination of the “Grid” and “Magnetic Cursor” modes.
Events + Cursor
This is a combination of the “Events” and “Magnetic Cursor” modes.
Events + Grid + Cursor
This is a combination of the “Events”, “Grid” and “Magnetic Cursor” 
modes.
12345
5 2 4 3 1
Dragging event 2 past event 4...
...changes the order of events 2, 3 and 4. 
						

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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).
Autoscroll
Autoscroll activated.
When this option is activated, the waveform display will scroll during 
playback, keeping the project cursor visible in the window.
•If the option “Stationary Cursor” is activated in the Preferences dialog 
(Transport page), the project cursor will be positioned in the middle of 
the screen (if possible). 
						

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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 tracks can contain any type of track including other 
folder tracks. 
A folder track
Tracks in the 
folder