Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 Operation Manual Studio Manual

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Track Presets
Introduction
Track presets are templates that you can create from au-
dio, MIDI or instrument tracks – or several of these tracks. 
With these track presets, you can then create new tracks 
or apply them to existing tracks of the same type. 
The idea behind track presets is:
To allow you to quickly access, browse, select, change 
and preview sounds.
To give you an easy way to reuse channel settings 
across projects.
Track presets are part of the SoundFrame concept (see 
“SoundFrame” on...

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Data saved in instrument track presets


 Audio Volume + Pan
 Audio Input Gain + Phase
 MIDI Insert FX

 Input Transformer

And also:
 Staff settings
 Color settings
ÖVolume, pan, input gain and input phase will be re-
stored only when creating a new track from a track preset.
MIDI track presets
MIDI tracks offer more possibilities than instrument tracks; 
therefore, they should be used for multi-timbral VST In-
struments and external instruments.
Due to the resulting complex settings,...

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Data saved in MIDI track presets
 MIDI Modifiers (Transpose, etc.)
 MIDI Inserts (FX)
 Output + Channel or Program Change
 Input Transformer
 Volume + Pan
And also:
 Staff settings
 Color settings
ÖNote that volume and pan will be restored only when 
creating a new track from a track preset.
Multi track presets
If you select more than one track when creating a track 
preset, the settings of all selected tracks will be saved as 
one multi track preset. Since you can apply a multi track...

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Browsing for presets
Using the Sound Browser
When browsing track presets, the quickest way is to use 
the Sound Browser, as it is set up specifically to display 
track and VST presets. 
To open this browser, select “Open Sound Browser” on 
the Media menu.
The Sound Browser.
In the Sound Browser, you can preview track and VST 
presets as well as select them to drag and drop them into 
the project to create new tracks (see “Creating tracks 
from track presets or VST presets” on page 306)...

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Browser section
In addition to the Browse Presets section, you can click 
“Show Location” to open the Browser section. It is similar 
to the one in the MediaBay (see “Browsing for media files” 
on page 289), but only necessary if you want to take an ex-
plicit look at the contents of presets subfolders within the 
SoundFrame node (as you can’t move up to other folders).
The Add Track dialog for a MIDI track with all sections open.
When you select a MIDI or instrument track preset (or a...

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Creating a track preset
A track preset is created from an existing audio, MIDI or 
instrument track – or several of these tracks. Proceed as 
follows:
1.Select one or more tracks in the Project window. 
If several are selected, all of them are stored in one combined multi track 
preset, see “Multi track presets” on page 303.
2.Right-click one of the selected tracks in the track list to 
open the context menu and select “Create Track Preset”.
The Save Track Preset dialog opens. The...

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Creating one or more audio, MIDI or instrument 
tracks with the Add Track function
1.To create one or more new tracks from a track preset, 
proceed as if adding a new track by selecting the corre-
sponding option on the context menu (or by using the key 
command). 
A dialog opens, in this example the “Add Audio track” dialog:
If you want to create more than one track of this type, 
enter the number in the Count field.
2.Click “Browse Presets” to open the Browse Presets 
section of the...

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3.Select a track or VST preset from the list.
If the list is very long and you cannot find the needed preset easily, you 
can click Categories in order to expand the view. It now shows a custom-
izable filter section that is similar to the one in the MediaBay, see “Per-
forming a Category search” on page 294.
At this point you can preview selected presets, see “Pre-
viewing track or VST presets before applying” on page 309.
4.Click outside the browser to apply the selected preset 
or...

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3.Select an instrument track preset or VST preset and 
click OK. 
The VST instrument and its settings (but no inserts, EQs and modifiers) 
of the existing track are overwritten with the data of the track preset. The 
previous VST instrument for this instrument track is removed and the new 
VST instrument with its settings is set up for the instrument track. Note 
that the VST instrument of an instrument track does not show up in the 
VST Instrument window but only in the Plug-In...

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Inserts and EQ settings from track 
presets
Instead of handling complete track presets, it is also pos-
sible to apply settings for Inserts or Equalizers from track 
presets.
This can be done via the Inspector or via the Channel set-
tings window.
In the Inspector, select e. g. an Instrument track and 
click the SoundFrame button on the Inserts or Equalizers 
tab to open the presets pop-up menu. There, select the 
option “From Track Preset…”.
In the Channel Settings window for a MIDI...