Steinberg Cubase SL/SX 3.1 Manual

 
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Editing – General
New Preferences options
 
For Cubase SX/SL 3.1 several changes have been made to the Pref-
erences dialog. The Appearance page has been completely modified 
(Cubase SX only), a new subpage “Project & Mixer” has been added 
to the Editing page, the VST page has been further subdivided, etc. In 
the following sections, the changes are described separately for the 
different pages of the dialog.  

 
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Appearance (Cubase SX only)
 
The Appearance page in the Preferences dialog now contains three 
subpages, on which you can adjust the look of the program in the fol-
lowing way: 
Appearance–General
 
The three controls on the General subpage affect the appearance of 
the work area backgrounds in Cubase SX. 
• 
Saturation determines how rich the background colors are, from grey 
to blue. 
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Contrast determines how bright or dark the background is in...

 
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Appearance–Meters
 
The coloring of meters in Cubase SX can be controlled in sophisticated 
ways. Multiple colors can help to visually indicate what levels are being 
reached, e.g. in a channel of the Mixer. To do this, the meter on the Ap-
pearance–Meters page has color handles that allow you to define what 
color the meter will have at a given signal level. 
The Appearance–Meters page. 
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The default setting has four color handles. Each color handle...

 
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• 
To change the color of a handle, click on the handle to select it. You 
can also use the [Tab] key to select the next handle. (To select the pre-
vious handle, hold down [Shift] and press the [Tab] key.) Use the hue 
and brightness controls on the right to alter the handle’s color. 
The currently selected color handle is indicated by a black triangle.
 
Appearance–Work Area
 
“Work areas” in this context refers to those places where the actual 
data is...

 
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between “Musical”, “Time Linear” and “Follow Transport Main Display”.
Selecting “Musical” will cause all added tracks to be set to musical 
time type (the respective button shows a note symbol). When you se-
lect “Time Linear”, all new tracks will use linear time base (i.e. the but-
ton shows a clock symbol). The third option uses the primary time for-
mat setting on the Transport panel. When this is set to “Bars+Beats”, 
tracks with musical time base...

 
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Select Channel/Track on Solo 
When you activate this option, a track in the Track list or a channel in the mixer auto-
matically gets selected when the Solo button is activated. 
Deactivating this option always keeps the current selection status, regardless of the 
Solo setting for the tracks.
 
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Select Channel/Track on Edit Setting 
When you activate this option, a track in the Track list or a channel in the mixer auto-
matically gets selected when...

 
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General
 
On the General page, there is one new option: 
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Maximum Backup Files 
This allows you to specify how many backup files will be created with the Autosave 
function. When the maximum number of backup files is reached, the existing files will 
be overwritten (starting with the oldest file). 
 
MIDI
 
On the main MIDI page, the following options have been added: 
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Insert Reset Events after Record
This is a very handy function for MIDI recording....

 
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VST
 
The main VST page now has three further subpages. On the main 
VST page, the following options have been added: 
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Default Stereo Panner Mode
This allows you to specify the default pan mode for inserted audio 
tracks (Stereo Balance Panner, Stereo Dual Panner or Stereo Com-
bined Panner). For a description of these modes, see the chapter 
“The Mixer” in the Operation Manual. 
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Activate dialog “Export Warnings as text file”
When you open a project...

 
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• When “Map Input Bus Metering to Audio Track (in Direct Monitoring)” is acti-
vated, audio tracks show the metering signal from the input bus they are 
routed to as soon as the track is record enabled.
Note that the tracks are mirroring the input bus signal, i.e. you will see the 
same signal in both places. When using mapped metering, any functions (e.g. 
trimming) you apply to the audio track are not reflected in its meters.
• When “Map Input Bus...