User manual STEINBERG CUBASE LE

[. . . ] Operation Manual Manual by Ludvig Carlson, Anders Nordmark, Roger Wiklander VST System Link chapter by Rodney Orpheus Quality Control: C. Schomburg 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. [. . . ] A file is considered missing under one of the following conditions: · The file has been moved or renamed outside the program since the last time you worked with the project, and you ignored the Resolve Missing files dialog when you opened the project for the current session. You have moved or renamed the file outside the program during the current session. You have moved or renamed the folder in which the missing files are located. · · Locate missing files 1. Select "Find Missing Files" from the Pool menu. The Resolve Missing Files dialog opens. 2. In the dialog that appears, decide if you want the program to try to find the file for you (Search), if you want to do it yourself (Locate) or if you want to specify in which directory the program should search for the file (Folder). · If you select Locate, a file dialog opens, allowing you to locate the file manually. Click "Open" when you have located the file. · If you select Folder, a dialog opens to let you specify the directory in which the missing file can be found. This might be the preferred method if you have renamed or moved the folder containing the missing file, but the file still has the same name. Once you select the correct folder, the program finds the file and you can close the dialog. CUBASE LE 15 ­ 296 The Pool · If you select Search, the program will scan your hard disks for a file with the proper name and display them in a list. The dialog allows you to specify which folder or disk should be scanned. Click the Search Folder button, select a directory or a disk and then click the Start button. Afterwards Cubase LE tries to map all other missing files automatically. Reconstructing missing edit files If a missing file cannot be found (e. g. if you have accidentally deleted it from the hard disk) it will normally be indicated with a question mark in the Status column in the Pool. However, if the missing file is an edit file (a file created when you process audio, stored in the Edits folder within the project folder), it may be possible for the program to reconstruct it by recreating the editing to the original audio file: 1. Check the Status column ­ if this says "Reconstructible", the file can be reconstructed by Cubase LE. Select the reconstructible clips and select "Reconstruct" from the Pool menu. The editing is performed and the edit files are recreated. Removing missing files from the Pool If the Pool contains audio files that cannot be found or reconstructed, you may want to remove these: · Select "Remove Missing Files" from the Pool menu to remove all missing files from the Pool (and remove their corresponding events from the Project window). The Pool CUBASE LE 15 ­ 297 Auditioning clips in the Pool There are two methods you can use to audition clips in the Pool: · By selecting a clip and activating the Play button. The whole clip will play back, unless you stop playback by clicking the Play button again. The Play button. · By clicking somewhere in the waveform image for a clip. The clip will play from the position in the waveform you click until the end of the clip, unless you stop playback by clicking the Play button, or by clicking anywhere else in the pool window. Clicking in the waveform image to audition a clip. If you have activated the Loop button before you audition, the following will happen: The Loop button. · If you activate the Play button to audition a clip, the clip will repeat indefinitely, until you stop playback by clicking the Play or Loop button again. If you click in the waveform image to audition, the section from the point you clicked to the end of the clip will repeat indefinitely until you stop playback. · CUBASE LE 15 ­ 298 The Pool Opening clips in the Sample Editor The Sample Editor allows you to perform detailed editing on the clip (see the Sample Editor chapter for details). You can open clips in the Sample Editor directly from the Pool by double clicking on a clip waveform icon. One practical use for this is to set a Snap point for a clip (see page 247). When you later insert the clip from the Pool into the project, you can have it properly aligned according to the set Snap point. Import Medium. . . The Import Medium dialog is used for importing files directly into the Pool. It is opened by using the Pool menu or by using the Import button in the Pool window. Clicking the Import button. . . . . . opens the Import dialog: The Import Medium dialog is a standard file dialog, where you can navigate to other folders, audition files etc. The following audio file formats can be imported: · · · · · · · · Wave AIFF AIFC (Compressed AIFF) REX or REX 2 (see page 514) Sound Designer II MPEG Layer 2 and Layer 3 (mp2 and mp3 files ­ see page 515) Windows Media Audio (Windows only ­ see page 515) Stereo or mono CUBASE LE 15 ­ 299 The Pool · · Any sample rate (although files with another sample rate than the one used in the project will play back at the wrong speed and pitch ­ see below). 8, 16 or 24 bit resolution In addition, AVI, QuickTime and MPEG video files can be imported into the Pool. It is also possible to use the commands on the Import submenu on the File menu to import audio or video files into the Pool. When you select a file in the Import Medium dialog and click Open, the Import Options dialog will appear. It contains the following options: · Copy File to Working Directory. Activate this if you want a copy of the file to be made in the Project Audio folder, and have the clip refer to this copy. If the option is deactivated, the clip will refer to the original file in the original location (and will thus be marked as "external" in the Pool ­ see page 289). · Convert to Project. Here you can choose to convert the sample rate and/or the sample size (resolution) to the current format used in the project. The options will only be available if necessary (if the sample rate is different than the one set for the project and/or if the sample size is lower than the record format used in the project). [. . . ] The files produced using this option will only contain the audio file portions actually used in the project, which can significantly reduce the size of the project (given that large portions of the audio files are unused). Update Origin The original start position where a clip was recorded in the project is shown in the Pool "Origin Time" column. As this value can be used as a basis for the "Insert into Project" Pool menu item (and other functions), you can change it if the Origin Time value is redundant. This can be done by selecting the corresponding clip in the Pool, moving the project cursor to the new desired position and selecting this menu item. New Version This allows you to create a new version of a selected clip. The new version appears in the same Pool folder, with the same name but with a "version number" after it, to indicate that the new clip is a duplicate. [. . . ]