Steinberg Cubase SX/SL 3 Getting Started Manual
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Getting Started
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Manual by Anders Nordmark Quality Control: C. Bachmann, H. Bischoff, S. Pfeifer, C. Schomburg The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not rep- resent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The soft- ware described by this document is subject to a License Agreement and may not be copied to other media except as specifically allowed in the License Agreement. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced or otherwise transmitted or...
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Table of Contents
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CUBASE SX/SL 4 Table of Contents 7Introduction 8Welcome 10About the manuals and the Help 14How you can reach us 15Installation and Requirements for Windows 16About this chapter 16Requirements 20Hardware installation 22Installing Cubase SX/SL 27Installation and Requirements for Mac OS X 28About this chapter 28Requirements 31Hardware installation 32Installing Cubase SX/SL 35Setting up your system 36Setting up audio 47Setting up MIDI 51Connecting a synchronizer 52Setting up video...
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CUBASE SX/SL Table of Contents 5 121Tutorial 2: Recording and playing back MIDI 122About this tutorial 123Setting up for recording MIDI 126Recording MIDI 126Playing back what you just recorded 127Playing back in a cycle 128Transposing the MIDI track 131Tutorial 3: Mixing 132About this tutorial 132Preparations 134Setting levels 135Setting pan 136Using Mute and Solo 137Adding EQ to an audio channel 141Audio effects 147Automation 149Tutorial 4: Creating a surround mix (Cubase SX only)...
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CUBASE SX/SL 6 Table of Contents 211Tutorial 9: Editing audio 212About this tutorial 212The Sample Editor 215Processing audio 216Applying an effect plug-in (Cubase SX only) 217Using the Offline Process History dialog 219Tutorial 10: Editing MIDI 220About this tutorial 220Opening the Key Editor 221Drawing events in the Key Editor 222Selecting and moving events 223About quantize 225Editing velocity in the controller display 227Tutorial 11: Customizing 228About this tutorial 229Setting...
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1 Introduction
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CUBASE SX/SL 1 – 8 Introduction Welcome Congratulations and thank you for your purchase of Steinberg Cubase SX/SL. The year 2004 marks the twentieth anniversary of Steinberg. Steinberg’s involvement in developing and stimulating growth in the music industry by creating powerful tools for music composition and production has first and foremost been defined by Cubase. Can you think of a better way to celebrate such a remarkable anniversary than to introduce a brand new version of Cubase? Well,...
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CUBASE SX/SL Introduction 1 – 9 Take some time to make yourself familiar with Cubase SX/SL 3. If you are already familiar with Cubase you should check out the tutorials 7 and 8 for a brief introduction to tempo matching using Audio Warp and arranging using the Play Order Track. If this is your first experi- ence with Cubase, we suggest reading this entire manual and going through all the tutorial chapters. They are a very good introduction to Cubase and how to make use of the fundamental tools...
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CUBASE SX/SL 1 – 10 Introduction About the manuals and the Help The Cubase SX/SL documentation is divided into several sections, as listed below. Most of the documents are in Adobe Acrobat format (ex- tension “.pdf”) - these can be accessed in the following ways: • You can open the pdf documents from the Help menu in the program. • Under Windows you can also open these documents from the Cubase SX/SL Documentation subfolder on the Windows Start menu. • Under Mac OS X the pdf documents are...