Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 Operation Manual Studio Manual

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Working with the Tempo track
Options and settings
Snap
You activate or deactivate Snap by clicking the Snap icon 
on the toolbar. The behavior of the function depends on 
the display format selected for the ruler:
If “Bars+Beats” is selected, tempo curve points will 
snap to the set resolution on the Snap pop-up.
If this is set to 1/1, curve points will snap to the start of bars.
If any other display format is selected, tempo curve 
points will snap to the vertical grid lines in the tempo curve...

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Working with the Tempo track
Merge Tempo From Tapping
This function allows you to create a complete tempo track 
based on your tapping. Typically, you would use this if you 
have an audio file with no tempo mapping and want to be 
able to add sequenced material afterwards, etc.
1.Create an empty time-based MIDI track and, while 
playing back your audio material, tap the new tempo on 
your MIDI keyboard and record the created notes onto the 
new MIDI track.
Note that you must create note events –...

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Working with the Tempo track
While you are dragging, the track(s) you are editing are 
temporarily switched to linear time base. This means that 
the contents of the tracks remain at the same time posi-
tions regardless of the tempo (there is an exception to this 
in the Project window, see below).
4.When you release the mouse button, the musical posi-
tion you clicked on matches the time position you dragged 
it to.
This is because the Time Warp tool changed the last tempo event on the 
Tempo track...

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Matching a musical score to video
Here’s an example of how to use the Time Warp tool in 
“musical events follow” mode. Let’s say you are creating 
the music for a film. You have a video track, an audio track 
with a commentary and some audio and/or MIDI tracks 
with your music. Now you want to match the position of a 
musical cue to a position in a video film. The musical cue 
is located in bar 33. There are no tempo changes in the 
project (yet).
1.Make sure tempo track...

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You need to create a “lock point” – a tempo event at the 
first cue position:
9.Press [Shift] and click with the Time Warp tool in the 
event display at the cue position.
In our case this is bar 33.
As you can see, a tempo event (with the same value as the 
first one) is added at that position.
10.Now match the second musical cue to the correct 
video position by dragging the musical position to the 
desired time position as before.
The new tempo event is edited – the...

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Working with the Tempo track
7.Click at that position in the event display and drag the 
position to the downbeat of the second bar in the record-
ing.
When you click, the pointer will snap to the ruler grid.
You do not have to match the downbeats (“ones”) – in this figure, beat 
“2” in the second bar is matched to the “two” in the recording’s second 
bar (simply because the snare drum hits on the upbeats are easier to 
spot in the waveform image).
When you dragged the grid you changed the tempo...

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The Project Browser 

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The Project Browser
Window Overview
While the Project window and the editors display events 
and other data graphically, the Project Browser window 
provides a list based representation of the project. This al-
lows you to view and edit all events on all tracks by using 
regular value editing in a list.
Opening the Project Browser
You open the Project Browser by selecting “Browser” from 
the Project menu. The Browser window can be open while 
you are working in other windows; any changes made in the...

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The Project Browser
The actual editing is done in the event display, using 
regular value editing techniques.
There is one exception: You can rename items in the Project Structure 
list by clicking on their names and typing.
Customizing the view
You can drag the divider between the Project Structure 
list and the event display to make one of them wider and 
the other narrower. Furthermore, the event display can be 
customized in the following ways:
You can change the order of the columns by dragging...

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The Project Browser
The list columns for audio parts:
Creating audio parts
When the “Audio” item of an audio track is selected in the 
Project Structure list, you can create empty audio parts on 
the track by clicking the Add button on the toolbar. This 
will insert a part between the left and right locator.
Editing MIDI tracks
Just like audio tracks, MIDI tracks can have two “sub-
items”: Track Data and Automation.
 The Track Data item corresponds to the actual MIDI track in 
the Project window and...