Getting_Started.pdf

Getting Started

Manual by Anders Nordmark

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Table of Contents

7 Introduction

63 Basic Methods

8 Welcome

10 About the manuals and the

Help

14 How you can reach us

64 About this chapter

64 Using menus

66 Using tools

68 Changing values

72 Selecting objects

73 Zoom and view techniques

76 Window handling

79 Undo

15 Installation and

Requirements for

Windows

16 About this chapter

16 Requirements

20 Hardware installation

22 Installing Cubase SX/SL

83 Guided Tour

84 The main windows in

Cubase SX/SL

27 Installation and

Requirements for

95 Quick start for former

Cubase users

Mac OS X

96 Introduction

97 Songs and Arrangements

97 Project window vs. Arrange

window

98 Audio related differences

100 MIDI related differences

101 General differences

28 About this chapter

28 Requirements

31 Hardware installation

32 Installing Cubase SX/SL

35 Setting up your

system

103 Tutorial 1:

Recording and

36 Setting up audio

47 Setting up MIDI

51 Connecting a synchronizer

52 Setting up video

53 Optimizing audio perfor-

mance

playing back audio

104 About this tutorial

105 Creating a new project

107 Preparing to record

117 Recording

117 Playing back what you just

recorded

118 Recording more events

119 Playing back in a cycle

57 Basic Cubase SX/SL

concepts

58 About this chapter

58 The project

60 Audio terminology

62 MIDI terminology

62 Video terminology

CUBASE SX/SL

4 Table of Contents

121 Tutorial 2: Recording

167 Tutorial 5: Editing in

and playing back MIDI

the Project window

122 About this tutorial

123 Setting up for recording

MIDI

126 Recording MIDI

126 Playing back what you just

recorded

127 Playing back in a cycle

128 Transposing the MIDI track

168 About this tutorial

168 Preparations

169 Overview

170 Moving and copying events

172 Muting and erasing events

173 Splitting and resizing events

175 Adding a fade

177 Tutorial 6: Using

131 Tutorial 3: Mixing

VST Instruments

132 About this tutorial

132 Preparations

134 Setting levels

135 Setting pan

136 Using Mute and Solo

137 Adding EQ to an audio

channel

141 Audio effects

147 Automation

178 About this tutorial

178 Preparations

179 Activating a VST Instrument

181 Routing

182 Playing back

183 Adding another instrument

185 Playing a VST Instrument in

real time

187 Recording

188 Making parameter settings

190 Automating the changes

149 Tutorial 4: Creating

a surround mix

(Cubase SX only)

191 Tutorial 7: Tempo

matching audio loops

150 About this tutorial

150 Preparations

150 Creating a Project

154 Creating a surround bus

156 Setting up a surround mix

163 Exporting to a surround au-

dio file

192 About this tutorial

193 Setting up

197 Activating Musical Mode

201 Tutorial 8:

Arranging with the

play order function

202 About this tutorial

203 Setting up

204 Creating play order parts

207 Creating a play order list

CUBASE SX/SL

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