User manual STEINBERG CUBASE LE 4 GETTING STARTED

[. . . ] Getting Started Tutorials by Steve Kostrey Revision for Cubase LE and Quality Control: Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Sabine Pfeifer The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The software 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 TM or ® trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] Move ahead to the next section to learn how to play back audio. 27 Tutorial 1: Recording Audio Playback We are going to learn how to play back audio in Cubase LE. You might think this is very simple ­ just hit "Play". It is actually this simple but there are a few tricks to learn so that you'll be playing back what you want with precision. ! · Select the audio event called "Audio 01_01" and choose "Loop Selection" from the Transport menu. ! The default key command for this is [Shift]+[G]. This is the quickest way to loop an audio event and start playback! Load the project called "Playback" found in the "Tutorial 1" folder. To stop playback · Click the "Stop" button on the Transport panel. · Clicking the "Stop" button twice moves the cursor to the position in the project where you started playback. · Press the space bar on your computer keyboard. This toggles between stop and start. To start playback There are a few ways you can play back in Cubase LE. · Click the "Start" button on the Transport panel. · Press the "0" key of the numerical computer keypad. Cycle playback · Press the space bar on your computer keyboard. This toggles between start and stop. Cubase LE has the ability to loop or cycle a section of your project. To set the cycle location you need to use the left and right locator. On the Transport panel, set the left locator to "1" and the right locator to "5". This tells Cubase LE that we want to loop or cycle between bars 1 and 5. Meaning we will have a 4 bar loop since the end of bar 4 is the beginning of bar 5. The left locator set to "1". · Press the [Enter] key of the numerical computer keypad. · Double-click in the lower half of the ruler. Double-click in the lower half of the ruler. . . Make sure that the "Cycle" button is activated. Click the Start button on the Transport panel and Cubase LE will play looping over and over until you click "Stop". ! . . . to start playback Don't forget ­ you can set the locators to encompass the selected event, turn on "Cycle" and begin playback all by the key command [Shift]+[G]. 28 Tutorial 1: Recording Audio Recording modes with cycle off There are three different modes for recording when the cycle is turned off. The three modes are: · Normal · Merge · Replace When recording audio, "Normal" and "Merge" are the same. Selecting either of these will allow you to record over the top of another audio event and it will appear as an overlap. You can then select between the overlapping events and determine which one will play. This is discussed in the section "Cycle recording" on page 29. Recording electric guitar 1. Let's add another "Mono" audio track. 2. You can see now that we have a track called "Audio 01" and "Audio 02". Up to now we haven't been concerned about naming the tracks but let's do this now. "Replace" mode when used will not overlap the audio if there is already some on the track. It will split or cut the audio where the recording takes place replacing what was there previously. [. . . ] We accomplish this by setting the locators. Set the left locator to bar 1 and the right locator to bar 65 on the Transport panel. This will make sure we have all the music for export. Listen to the fade in automation we created. [. . . ]