Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 Operation Manual Studio Manual

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The Project Browser
The list columns for MIDI parts:
ÖFor SysEx (system exclusive) events, you can only edit 
the position (Start) in the list.
However, clicking the Comment column opens the SysEx Editor, in which 
you can perform detailed editing of system exclusive events. For a descrip-
tion of this, see “Working with System Exclusive messages” on page 390.
Filtering MIDI events
When you are editing MIDI in the Project Browser, the 
large number of different MIDI events displayed can make 
it hard...

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The Project Browser
Editing the Video track
When the Video track is selected in the Project Structure 
list, the event display lists the video events on the track, 
with the following parameters:
Editing the Marker track
Marker events have the following parameters:
When the Marker track is selected, you can insert markers 
by selecting “Marker” or “Cycle Marker” from the Add 
pop-up menu and clicking the Add button. Regular mark-
ers will be added at the current project cursor position 
while cycle...

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Export Audio Mixdown 

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Export Audio Mixdown
Introduction
The Export Audio Mixdown function in Cubase allows you 
to mix down audio from the program to a file on your hard 
disk, in a number of formats. You can choose to mix down 
one of the following:
An output bus.
For example, if you have set up a stereo mix with tracks routed to a stereo 
output bus, mixing down that output bus would give you a mixdown file 
containing the whole mix. Similarly, you can mix down a complete surround 
bus, either to a single multi-channel...

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Export Audio Mixdown
 Activate the option “Use Project Audio Folder” to specify a 
path. This saves the mixdown file in the Project Audio folder.
5.Select a file format with the File Format pop-up menu.
6.Select the bus or channel you want to mix down with 
the Outputs pop-up menu in the “Audio Engine Output” 
section.
This lists all output busses and channels in the active project.
7.Activate the Split Channels option if you want to ex-
port all channels as mono files, or “Mono Export” if you 
want...

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Export Audio Mixdown
AIFC files
AIFC stands for Audio Interchange File Format Com-
pressed, a standard defined by Apple Inc. These files sup-
port compression ratios as high as 6:1 and contain tags in 
the header. AIFC files have the extension “.aifc” and are 
used on most computer platforms. 
AIFC files support the same options as AIFF files.
Wave files
Wave files have the extension “.wav” and are the most 
common file format on the PC platform. 
Wave files support the same options as AIFF files....

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Export Audio Mixdown
Wave64 files (Cubase only)
Wave64 is a proprietary format developed by Sonic 
Foundry Inc. In terms of audio quality, Wave64 files are 
identical to standard wave files, but in the file headers 
Wave64 files use 64-bit values for addressing where wave 
files use 32-bit values. The consequence of this is that 
Wave64 files can be considerably larger than standard 
Wave files. Wave64 is therefore a good file format choice 
for really long recordings (file sizes over 2 GB), e.g....

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Ogg Vorbis files
Ogg Vorbis is an open source, patent-free audio encoding 
and streaming technology, offering compressed audio files 
(extension “.ogg”) of small size, but with comparatively high 
audio quality.
For Ogg Vorbis files the following options are available:
Other file formats
Steinberg also offers optional Dolby Digital (AC3) and 
DTS encoders for export directly to AC3 or DTS format 
(Cubase only). Please go to www.steinberg.net for more 
information.
Windows Media...

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Export Audio Mixdown
The following options are available:
General tab
In the Input Stream section, you set the sample rate (44.1, 
48 or 96 kHz) and the bit resolution (16 bit or 24 bit) of the 
encoded file. These should be set to match the sample rate 
and bit resolution of the source material. If no value matches 
that of your source material, use the closest available value 
that is higher than the actual value. E.g. if you’re using 20 bit 
source material, set the bit resolution to 24 bit rather...

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Surround Reduction Coefficients
Here you can specify which amount of volume reduction, if 
any, should be applied to the different channels in a sur-
round encoding. These settings affect how the audio is re-
produced on a system incapable of playing back the file in 
surround, in which case the surround channels of the file 
will be combined into two channels and played back in 
stereo instead.
The default values will normally produce satisfactory re-
sults, but you can change...