Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 Operation Manual Studio Manual

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About this manual 

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About this manual
Welcome!
This is the Operation Manual for Steinberg’s Cubase. 
Here you will find detailed information about all the fea-
tures and functions in the program. 
About the program versions
The documentation covers two program versions; Cubase 
and Cubase Studio, for two different operating systems or 
“platforms”; Windows and Mac OS X. 
Some features described in the documentation are only 
applicable to the Cubase version. Whenever this is the 
case this will be clearly indicated in...

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VST Connections: Setting up input and
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VST Connections: Setting up input and output busses
About this chapter
Cubase uses a system of input and output busses to trans-
fer audio between the program and the audio hardware.
 Input busses let you route audio from the inputs on your audio 
hardware into the program. This means that when you record 
audio, you will always do this through one or several input 
busses.
 Output busses let you route audio from the program to the 
outputs on your audio hardware. When you play back audio, 
you will...

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Preparations
Before you set up busses, you should name the inputs 
and outputs on your audio hardware. For example, if you 
are using a 5.1 surround speaker setup, you should name 
the outputs according to which speaker they are con-
nected to (Left, Right, Center and so on). 
The reason for this is compatibility – it makes it easier to 
transfer projects between different computers and setups. 
For example, if you move your project to another...

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VST Connections: Setting up input and output busses
Depending on which tab you have selected, Inputs or Out-
puts, the window lists the current input or output busses, 
with the following columns:
Adding a bus
1.Click the Inputs or Outputs tab depending on which 
you want to add.
2.Click the Add Bus button.
A dialog appears.
3.Select the desired (channel) configuration.
The pop-up menu contains Mono and Stereo options as well as several 
surround formats (Cubase only). To select another surround...

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Setting the Main Mix bus (the default output bus)
The Main Mix is the output bus that each new channel in 
the mixer will be assigned to when it is created.
Any one of the output busses in the VST Connections 
window can be the default output bus. By right-clicking on 
the name of an output bus, you can set this bus as the 
Main Mix bus.
Setting the default output bus in the VST Connections window.
When creating new audio, group or FX channels in the...

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Cubase only: If you press [Alt]/[Option] and select an 
input or output bus in the Mixer Routing View, it will be 
chosen for all selected channels.
This makes it easy to quickly set several channels to use the same input 
or output. Similarly, if you press [Shift] and select a bus, the following se-
lected channels will be set to use incrementing busses – the second se-
lected channel will use the second bus, the third will use the third bus 
and so...

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Input channels (Cubase only)
The input channels are shown to the left in the mixer. As 
you can see, each input channel resembles a regular mixer 
channel strip. Here you can do the following:
Check and adjust the recording level using the Input 
Gain knobs and/or the level fader.
See “Setting input levels” on page 70.
Change the phase of the input signal.
This is done by clicking the Input Phase button next to the Input Gain 
control.
Add effects or...

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Setting up Groups and FX channels
The Group/FX tab in the VST Connections window shows 
all Group channels and FX channels in your project. You 
can create new Group or FX channels by clicking the cor-
responding Add button. This is the same as creating 
Group channel tracks or FX channel tracks in the Project 
window (see “Using group channels” on page 138 and 
the chapter “Audio effects” on page 162).
However, the VST Connections window also allows...