Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 Operation Manual Studio Manual

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Folder operations
The Browser section shows the folder structure of your 
computer’s file system in a way very similar to the Win-
dows Explorer or the Mac OS Finder:
Click on the folder icons in the Browser display to se-
lect the corresponding folder.
Double-click on the folder icons in the Browser display 
to open the corresponding folder.
When a folder contains subfolders, this is indicated by a 
plus icon in front of the folder icon. The plus icon changes 
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4.Click OK.
The new preset is added to the Select Browse Location Presets pop-up 
menu (which can be opened by clicking on the down arrow icon).
When you now open the Select Browse Location Presets 
pop-up menu and select the new preset, the respective 
preset folder will be selected in the Browser display.
To remove a preset from the Select Browse Location 
Presets pop-up, select it from the pop-up and click the 
“Remove Browse Location Preset” button (the “-” icon).
Finding files in...

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Once a search operation has been completed, the very 
first entry in the Viewer list is selected. When you now 
press [Tab] once, this selected entry will receive the focus 
and you can use the Up and Down arrow keys to browse 
the list of files.
Cubase only: Performing a Details search
The following section briefly describes how to perform a 
search for a particular file name in the file system.
Proceed as follows:
1.Select the root folder of your hard disk in the Browser 
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Performing a Category search
The MediaBay allows you not only to view and edit some 
of the standard file attributes found in all computer files, 
but it also provides preconfigured tags, or “categories”, 
that you can use to organize your media files. 
The advantages of such categorization become obvious 
when having to find one specific file, e. g. a certain guitar 
sound, among large numbers of media files from various 
contexts, without knowing the name of that file.
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Further options for Category searches
The text field at the top serves as an additional name fil-
ter: you can enter a file name or part of a file name here.
This corresponds to a “Name: contains” Details search, which means 
that the name of the searched file must contain the text you enter here. 
See also “Cubase only: Performing a Details search” on page 293.
In addition to the filter defined by the tag columns, the name of the 
searched file must contain “120”.
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Previewing MIDI loops
To preview a MIDI loop file, click the Start button.
Auto Play works as for audio files, see above.
MIDI Loops are always played in the project context.
Previewing track and instrument presets
The Scope section for a MIDI track preset.
Track presets for MIDI or Instrument tracks and VST plug-
in presets require MIDI notes for previewing. There are 
two ways these notes can be sent to the track template:
Click the “MIDI Input” button and play MIDI notes on a 
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Managing the tag lists (Cubase only)
Lists of tags and tag values are used in various places in 
the MediaBay window. You can configure these lists and 
define certain tag properties in the Manage Tags dialog.
Proceed as follows:
1.Open the Manage Tags dialog by clicking on the Man-
age Tags button in the lower right corner of the MediaBay 
window.
2.Click one of the filter buttons at the top of the Manage 
Tags dialog to select the file type for which you want to 
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When clicking in the Value column for “Category”, “Sub 
Category” or “Style”, a pop-up menu opens from which 
you can choose a value.
The tags “Category” and “Sub Category” are directly linked to each 
other. The “Category” pop-up allows you to set a category, the “Sub 
Category” pop-up allows you to set a category and a corresponding sub 
category. If you pick a sub category from a category that is different from 
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To delete a file, right-click on it in the Viewer and select 
“Delete” from the context menu.
A warning message is displayed, asking you to confirm that you really 
want to move this file to the operating system’s trash folder.
Cubase only: When the option “Allow Editing in Viewer” 
is activated in the Preferences dialog–MediaBay page, 
you can also edit tags in the Viewer.
Otherwise this is possible only in the Tag Editor.
Tagging media files
The search functions, especially the...

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Track Presets