Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 Operation Manual Studio Manual

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The Pool
Background
What is the Pool?
Every time you record on an audio track, a file is created 
on your hard disk. A reference to this file – a clip – is also 
added to the Pool. Two general rules apply to the Pool:
All audio and video clips that belong to a project are 
listed in the Pool.
There is a separate Pool for every project.
The way the Pool displays folders and their contents is 
similar to the way the Mac OS X Finder and the Windows 
Explorer display folders and lists of files.
What can...

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Toolbar overview
The info line
Click the “Show Info” button on the toolbar to show or 
hide the info line at the bottom of the Pool window. It 
shows the following information:
How clips and regions are displayed in the 
Pool
 Audio clips are represented by a waveform icon followed by 
the clip name.
 Audio regions are represented by a region icon followed by 
the region name.
 Video clips are represented by a camera icon followed by the 
clip name.
The Pool window columns
Various...

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The Pool
About the Status column symbols
The Status column can display various symbols that relate 
to the clips status. The following symbols can be shown:
Sorting the Pool contents
You can sort the clips in the Pool by name, date etc. This 
is done by clicking on the corresponding column heading. 
Clicking again on the same heading switches between as-
cending and descending sort order.
Customizing the view
You can specify which of the columns should be shown 
or hidden by selecting the...

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Operations
ÖMost of the Pool-related main menu functions are also 
available on the Pool context menu (opened by right-click-
ing in the Pool window).
Renaming clips or regions in the Pool
To rename a clip or a region in the Pool, select it and click 
on the existing name, type in a new name and press 
[Return].
ÖIn case of a clip, this will also rename the referred files 
on disk!
Copying clips in the Pool
To make a duplicate clip, proceed as follows:
1.Select the clip you wish to copy....

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Deleting clips
Removing clips from the Pool
To remove a clip from the Pool without deleting it from the 
hard disk, proceed as follows:
1.Select the clip(s) and select “Delete” from the Edit 
menu (or press [Backspace] or [Delete]).
ÖIf you try to delete a clip that is used by one or more 
events, the program will ask you if you want to remove 
these events from the project.
If you cancel, neither the clip nor the associated events are deleted.
2.Click Remove.
A new prompt asks whether you...

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The Pool
Searching for audio files
The Pool can help you locate audio files in your Pool, on 
your hard disk or other media. This works much like the 
regular file search, but with a couple of extra features:
1.Click the Search button in the toolbar.
A search pane appears at the bottom of the window, displaying the 
search functions.
The search pane in the Pool.
By default, the search parameters available in the search 
pane are “Name” and “Location”. For using other filter cri-
teria, see “Extended...

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3.The Extended Search pop-up menu opens.
This contains six options determining which search criteria will be dis-
played above the Location field (Name, Size, Bitsize, Channels, Sample 
Rate or Date) and the Add Filter and Presets submenus.
The search criteria have the following parameters:
 Name: partial names or wildcards (*)
 Size: Less than, more than, equal, between (two values), in 
seconds, minutes, hours and bytes
 Bitsize (resolution): 8, 16, 32, 64
 Channels: mono, stereo and from...

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If you select Folder, a dialog opens to let you specify the 
directory in which the missing file can be found.
This might be the preferred method if you have renamed or moved the 
folder containing the missing file, but the file still has the same name. 
Once you select the correct folder, the program finds the file and you can 
close the dialog.
If you select Search, a dialog opens to let you specify 
which folder or disk should be scanned by the program. 
Click the Search Folder button,...

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Opening clips in the Sample Editor
The Sample Editor allows you to perform detailed editing 
on the clip (see “The Sample Editor” on page 233). You 
can open clips in the Sample Editor directly from the Pool 
in the following ways:
If you double-click on a clip waveform icon or a clip 
name in the Media column, the clip will open in the Sam-
ple Editor.
If you double-click on a region in the Pool, its clip will 
open in the Sample Editor with the region selected.
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When you select a file in the Import Medium dialog and 
click Open, the Import Options dialog opens:
It contains the following options:
Copy File to Working Directory.
Activate this if you want a copy of the file to be made in the Audio folder 
of the project, and have the clip refer to this copy. If the option is off, the 
clip will refer to the original file in the original location (and will thus be 
marked as “external” in the Pool – see “About the Status column sym-
bols” on page 273)....