Steinberg Cubase SX/SL 3 Operation Manual
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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 recorded, for any purpose, without prior written permission by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. All product and company names are ™ or ® trademarks of their respective owners. Windows XP is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. The Mac logo is a trademark used under license. Macintosh and Power Macintosh are registered trademarks. © Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, 2004. All rights reserved.
CUBASE SX/SL 4 Table of Contents 9About this manual 10Welcome! 13VST Connections: Setting up input and output busses 14About this chapter 14Setting up busses 21Using the busses 25Setting up Groups and FX channels 26About the Audition bus (Cubase SX only) 29Playback and the Transport panel 30Background 34Operations 38Options and Settings 41Recording 42Background 43Basic recording methods 48Audio recording specifics 69MIDI Recording Specifics 82Options and Settings 87The Project window 88Background 90Window Overview 105Operations 147Options 151The play order track 152Introduction 153Setting up the play order track 154Creating a play order157Playing back the play order 158Flattening the play order 159Folder tracks 160About folder tracks 161Handling folder tracks 163Working with folder parts 167Using markers 168About markers 168The Marker window 172Using the Marker track 177Marker key commands 178Editing markers in the Project Browser 179Fades, crossfades and envelopes 180Creating fades 184The Fade dialogs 187Creating crossfades 190The Crossfade dialog 193Auto Fades and Crossfades 195Event Envelopes 197The mixer 198About this chapter 199Overview 204Configuring the mixer 212The audio channel strips 214The MIDI channel strips 215The common panel 216The input & output channels 218Basic mixing procedures 226Audio specific procedures 241MIDI specific procedures 243Utilities
CUBASE SX/SL Table of Contents 5 249Audio effects 250About this chapter 250Overview 252Insert effects 263Send effects 274Using external effects (Cubase SX only) 278Making settings for the effects 281Installing and managing effect plug-ins 289VST Instruments 290Introduction 291Activating and using VST Instruments 296The Instrument Freeze function 299Surround sound (Cubase SX only) 300Background 303Window overview 305Operations 317Automation 318Background 321Automation track operations 328Using Write/Read automa- tion 335Working with automation curves 341Tips and common methods 342Options and Settings 343Remote controlling the mixer 344About this chapter 344Setting Up 346Operations 348The Generic Remote device 353Audio processing and functions 354Background 355Audio processing 374Applying plug-ins (Cubase SX only) 377The Offline Process History dialog 379Freeze Edits 380Detect Silence 383The Spectrum Analyzer (Cubase SX only) 386Statistics (Cubase SX only) 387The Sample Editor 388Background 388Opening the Sample Editor 389Window overview 394Operations 406Options and settings 409The Audio Part Editor 410Background 410Opening the Audio Part Editor 411Window overview 414Operations 418Common methods 420Options and Settings
CUBASE SX/SL 6 Table of Contents 421Audio warp realtime processing 422Background 423Using the Audio Tempo Definition tool 430Warp tabs and the Warp Samples tool 437Quantizing audio 439Realtime pitch shifting of audio events 440Freezing the realtime processing 443Working with hitpoints and slices 444Background 445Using hitpoints 449Editing hitpoints 456About Q-points 457Creating slices 458Creating groove quantize maps 459Other hitpoint functions 463The Pool 464Background 466Window Overview 470Operations 489Options and Settings 491MIDI realtime para- meters and effects 492Introduction 493The Inspector – General handling 494Basic track settings 497Track parameters502MIDI effects 507Managing plug-ins 508Merge MIDI in Loop 511MIDI processing and quantizing 512Introduction 513Quantizing 524Other MIDI menu functions 530Dissolve Part 533The MIDI editors 534About editing MIDI 535Opening a MIDI editor 537The Key Editor – Overview 543Key Editor operations 568Edit In-Place (Cubase SX only) 570The Drum Editor – Overview 573Drum Editor operations 576Working with drum maps 585Using drum name lists 586The List Editor – Overview 587List Editor operations 594The Score Editor – Over- view (Cubase SL only) 597Score Editor operations (Cubase SL only) 612Common MIDI editor options and settings 615Working with the Tempo track 616Background 617The Tempo Track Editor – overview 620Operations 626Process Tempo (Cubase SX only)
CUBASE SX/SL Table of Contents 7 627Options and settings 628The Beat Calculator 630Merge Tempo From Tapping 631The Time Warp tool 643The Project Browser 644Background 644Opening the Project Browser 644Window Overview 645Navigating in the Browser 646Customizing the View 646About the Sync Selection option 647Editing audio tracks 650Editing MIDI tracks 653Editing Automation tracks 653Editing the Video track 654Editing the Marker track 655Editing the Tempo track 655Editing Time Signatures 656Deleting Events 657Export Audio Mixdown 658Introduction 659Mixing down to an audio file 662File format specifics 677Synchronization 678Background 685Window Overview 686Operations 694Options 697VST System Link 698Introduction 699Preparations 705Activating VST System Link 712Application examples 715Video 716Background 717Operations 723Options 725ReWire 726Introduction 727Launching and quitting 728Activating ReWire channels 729Using the transport and tempo controls 730How the ReWire channels are handled in Cubase SX/SL 731Routing MIDI via ReWire2 732Considerations and limitations 733File handling 734File Operations 756Options and Settings 759Customizing 760Background 761Workspaces 765Customizing the Transport panel 767Customizing the toolbars 769Customizing track controls 773About preference presets (Cubase SX only) 775Appearance 775Applying track and event colors 777Where are the settings stored?
CUBASE SX/SL 8 Table of Contents 779Key commands 780Background 781Setting up Key Commands 789Setting up tool modifier keys 791Index
CUBASE SX/SL 1 – 10 About this manual Welcome! This is the Operation Manual for Steinberg’s Cubase SX/SL 3. Here you will find detailed information about virtually all features and func- tions in the program. How to use the manuals and the Help When it comes to manuals, different users look for information in dif- ferent ways, depending on their previous knowledge and personal preferences. You may be looking for a complete description of a pro- cedure, you may just be trying to find a certain function in the program, you may have found a function in the program and want it explained – or you may simply want to learn it all! Therefore, there are several ways to enter the documentation and get help: • Use the Table of Contents to browse the manual or the Help and find the section you need to know more about. You can click directly on a chapter or section to go there. • Use the Index to look up specific features and functions. Again, you can click directly on the page number for an index entry to go to there. The help also allows you to perform a free search of any term. • In the program you will find Help buttons in most dialogs – click to get information about that specific dialog. Similarly, you can press [F1] to get information about the current window. • If you want information about a specific menu item, use the Menu Reference section in the Help. All main menu items in Cubase SX/SL are listed and explained there. • Finally, you could read the manuals from start to end if you like. See below for a description of all parts of the Cubase SX/SL documentation package.