Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 Operation Manual Studio Manual

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4.The Presets browser is opened. It contains three sec-
tions (Browser, Search & Viewer and Filter). By default, only 
the Search & Viewer section is shown. Note that it may take 
a moment before all available sounds appear in the Viewer.
The Viewer section to the right displays all track presets 
for instrument tracks and all VST 3 presets.
Track presets for audio tracks, MIDI tracks or “multi” track setups are not 
displayed. The preset icon to the left of the...

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4.Click in the Programs field in the Inspector.
The Preset browser is opened.
5.Step through the presets during playback to find the 
sound you are looking for.
6.Double-click the desired preset to load it and close 
the preset browser.
You can also open the preset browser by clicking in the 
preset name field in the control panel of a VST Instrument 
or by clicking the SoundFrame button in the control panel 
and selecting “Load Preset…” from the pop-up
Selecting...

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About earlier VST Instrument presets
You can use any VST 2.x Instrument plug-ins in Cubase. 
Installing VST Instrument plug-ins works the same way as 
for audio effects – see “Installing additional VST plug-ins” 
on page 179.
When you install a VST 2 instrument, any previously 
stored presets for it will be of the old FX program/bank 
(.fxp/.fxb) standard. You can import such files, but the pre-
set handling will be slightly different. You will not be able 
to...

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VST plug-ins (with higher delay than the threshold 
value) which are activated for VST Instrument channels, 
audio track channels that are record enabled, group chan-
nels and output channels will be turned off when you acti-
vate Constrain Delay Compensation.
VST plug-ins activated for FX channels are not turned 
off but their delay is disregarded by the program (delay 
compensation is turned off).
After recording or using a VST Instrument with Constrain 
Delay...

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Background
What is Surround sound?
Surround is a common name for various techniques for po-
sitioning audio in reference to the listener. Whereas regular 
stereo is limited to left/right positioning, within a relatively 
narrow field, surround sound opens possibilities of posi-
tioning an audio source anywhere around the listener.
Surround sound comes in many flavors, from the ill-fated 
Quadraphonic format for vinyl discs launched in the 70’s, 
to today’s more...

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SurroundPanner
This is described in the section “Using the Surround Panner” on page 
199.
The VST Connections window
In this window you can add input and output busses. 
There is a complete selection of common surround con-
figurations available, as well as standard mono or stereo 
busses.
The Bus Name column contains the currently configured 
busses as they will appear in the input and output routing 
pop-ups in the mixer.
VST Connections showing the Outputs page. The...

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Operations
Setting up the surround configuration
Output bus configuration
Before you can start working with surround sound, you 
have to configure a surround output bus, through which all 
the speaker channels of the chosen surround format are 
routed. How to add and set up busses is described in de-
tail in the section “Setting up busses” on page 14. Here is 
a brief run through:
1.Open the VST Connections window from the Devices 
menu.
2.Click the “Outputs” tab....

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Routing channels directly to surround channels
If you want to place an audio source in one separate 
speaker channel only, you can route it directly to that 
speaker channel. This is useful for pre-mixed material or 
multi-channel recordings that don’t require panning.
1.Open the mixer and locate the channel you wish to 
route.
2.From the output routing pop-up menu, select the cor-
responding surround speaker channel.
If a stereo audio channel is routed directly to a...

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The SurroundPan controls
The SurroundPan plug-in interface in Standard, Position and Angle 
mode, respectively.
The SurroundPan plug-in allows you to position your au-
dio in the surround field. It consists of an image of the 
speaker arrangement, as defined by the output bus se-
lected on the output routing pop-up menu, with the sound 
source indicated as a gray ball. 
Mode – Standard/Position/Angle
The Standard Mode/Position Mode/Angle Mode switch 
allows you to work...