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| Setup | |
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| Basic Concepts | |
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| What Is Cubase? | |
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| What Is MIDI? | |
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| Anatomy of a MIDI Message | |
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| MIDI Connectors | |
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| A Brief Overview of Digital Audio | |
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| What Is Analog Sound? | |
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| What Is Digital Audio? | |
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| How Sampling Works | |
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| About 32-Bit Recording | |
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| Cubase Terminology | |
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| Audio Connections | |
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| Input Busses | |
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| Output Busses | |
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| Audio Track | |
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| Audio Channels | |
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| MIDI Connections | |
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| MIDI Ports | |
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| MIDI Channel | |
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| MIDI Track | |
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| Mixer Channel | |
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| Cubase Environment | |
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| About Audio Terminology | |
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| Destructive and Nondestructive Editing | |
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| Working with Events, Regions, and Parts | |
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| The Browser Window | |
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| Browser Window Areas | |
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| Understanding the Information | |
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| Linear and Musical Timebases | |
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| Setting Up Peripherals | |
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| Audio Hardware and Drivers | |
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| ASIO Drivers | |
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| ASIO DirectX Full Duplex Drivers | |
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| MIDI Interfaces and Drivers | |
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| Setting Up Devices in Cubase | |
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| Setting Up MIDI Ports | |
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| Setting a Remote Device | |
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| Setting Up Audio Ports | |
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| Running Other Applications Simultaneously | |
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| Background Processes | |
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| Other Audio Applications | |
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| Monitoring Audio | |
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| Monitoring Methods | |
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| Monitoring Through Cubase | |
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| Monitoring Externally | |
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| Direct Monitoring | |
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| Hooking Up Your Equipment | |
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| Setting Up VST Connections | |
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| Input Connections | |
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| Output Connections | |
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| Group/FX Connections | |
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| External FX Connections | |
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| External Instrument Connections | |
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| Studio Connections | |
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| Saving Connections | |
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| New Project | |
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| Create a New Project | |
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| Project Setup | |
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| Creating Audio Tracks | |
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| Setting Up an Audio Track | |
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| Creating an Instrument Track | |
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| Creating a MIDI Track | |
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| Setting Up an Instrument Track | |
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| Recording | |
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| Control Room Mixer | |
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| Project Studio Control Room | |
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| External Inputs | |
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| Monitoring Options | |
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| Listen Enable Bus | |
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| Talkback Options | |
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| Dim and Reference Levels | |
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| Dim(d)CRM Extended View | |
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| Studio Sends | |
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| SoundFrame | |
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| MediaBay | |
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| Browser | |
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| Viewer | |
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| Scope | |
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| Tag Editor | |
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| Manage Tags | |
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| Customizing the MediaBay | |
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| Instrument Tracks | |
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| VST Presets | |
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| Track Presets | |
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| About VST3 | |
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| Recording Audio | |
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| Metronome and Tempo | |
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| Click Settings | |
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| Tempo and Time Signature | |
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| Recording Audio | |
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| Recording Audio in Cycle Mode | |
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| Stacked Cycle Record Modes | |
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| Importing Content | |
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| About Audio File Imports | |
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| About Audio CD Track Imports | |
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| Importing Audio from Video Files | |
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| About OMF | |
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| Using Instruments | |
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| VST Instruments (VSTi) | |
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| Setting Up an Instrument Track | |
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| Setting Up a VSTi | |
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| Using Presets | |
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| VSTi and Latency | |
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| The Device Manager | |
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| Adding a MIDI Device | |
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| Managing a MIDI Device | |
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| Using Devices in the Inspector | |
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| Recording MIDI | |
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| Record Modes | |
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| Left and Right Locators | |
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| MIDI and Audio Activity Indicators | |
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| Recording MIDI | |
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| Importing MIDI Files | |
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| ReWire | |
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| ReWire Setup | |
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| VSTi and ReWire Channels | |
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| Exporting VSTi and ReWire Channels | |
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| Insert Effects | |
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| Audio Track Inserts | |
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| Inserts on Control Room Connections | |
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| Pool | |
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| Pool Folders | |
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| The Pool Areas | |
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| Understanding the Information | |
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| Pool Functions | |
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| Dealing with Missing Files | |
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| Optimizing the Pool | |
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| Archiving and Exporting a Pool | |
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| Pool Interaction | |
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| Offline Processes in the Pool | |
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| Advanced Recording Options | |
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| MIDI Recording Preferences | |
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| MIDI Filtering | |
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| Overdub Recording Techniques | |
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| Punch-In/Punch-Out | |
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| Pre-Roll/Post-Roll | |
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| Navigation | |
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| Project Navigation | |
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| Changing Your Focus | |
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| Using the Overview Panel | |
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| Using the Zoom Tools | |
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| The Transport Panel | |
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| Performance | |
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| Shuttle, Jog, and Nudge | |
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| Main Transport | |
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| The Project Window | |
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| Project Window Areas | |
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| Constrain Delay Compensation | |
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| View Switches | |
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| Automation Mode | |
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| Transport | |
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| Tools | |
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| Autoscroll | |
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| Snap/Quantize | |
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| Context Menus in the Project Window | |
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| The Inspector | |
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| The Track List | |
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| The Event Display | |
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| Track Classes | |
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| Adding Tracks | |
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| Ruler Tracks | |
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| Video Tracks | |
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| MIDI Tracks | |
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| MIDI Events in Cubase | |
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| Setting Up a MIDI Track | |
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| Notepad | |
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| User Panel | |
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| MIDI Channel | |
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| MIDI Channel Settings | |
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| MIDI to Mixdown | |
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| Audio Tracks | |
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| Audio Objects in Cubase | |
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| Setting Up an Audio Track | |
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| Inspector Sections | |
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| Equalizers Section on Audio Tracks | |
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| Equalizer Curve | |
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| Channel | |
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| Channel Settings Window for Audio Tracks | |
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| Editing | |
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| Sample Editor | |
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| Sample Editor Areas | |
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| Basic Editing Functions | |
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| About Musical Mode | |
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| Working with Regions | |
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| Snap-Point | |
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| Hitpoints | |
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| Creating Hitpoints | |
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| Audio Processing Options | |
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| Audio Time Stretching | |
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| Musical Mode | |
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| Warp Audio | |
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| Creating Warp Tabs from Hitpoints | |
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| Time Warp | |
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| Editing Audio and Time Warp Tabs | |
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| Audio Processing Options | |
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| Using Audio Processes | |
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| The Offline Process History | |
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| The Edit History | |
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| Editing MIDI Events | |
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| In-Place Editor | |
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| Muting Events | |
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| Splitting and Resizing Note Events | |
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| Merging Note Events | |
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| Using the Draw Tool | |
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| Using the Line Tool | |
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| Zooming | |
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| The Info Line | |
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| MIDI Controllers | |
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| Key Editor | |
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| Editor Toolbar | |
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| Solo Editor and Acoustic Feedback | |
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| Show Info | |
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| Tool Buttons | |
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| Autoscroll | |
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| Auto Select Controller | |
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| Part Editing Options | |
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| Insert Velocity | |
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| Snap and Quantize | |
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| Step Input of MIDI Events | |
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| Mouse Position | |
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| Independent Track Loop | |
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| Color Scheme Selector | |
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| Other Toolbar Items | |
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| Key Editor Display Areas | |
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| Using Step Input | |
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| Editing Multiple Tracks | |
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| Drum Editors | |
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| Drum Editor | |
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| Drum Editor Display Areas | |
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| Working with Drum Maps | |
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| MIDI Menu Options | |
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| Transpose | |
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| Merge MIDI In Loop | |
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| Dissolve Parts | |
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| O-Note Conversion | |
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| About MIDI Functions | |
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| Arranging | |
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| Quantizing Your Events | |
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| Quantize Methods | |
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| Setting Up a Quantize Grid | |
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| Quantize Parameters | |
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| Applying Quantize | |
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| Creating Groove Quantize Presets | |
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| MIDI Track Effects | |
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| MIDI Modifiers | |
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| About MIDI Effects | |
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| MIDI Inserts | |
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| MIDI Sends | |
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| Edit Menu Options | |
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| Splitting | |
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| Split at Cursor | |
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| Split Loop | |
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| Split Range | |
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| Range Crop | |
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| Insert Silence | |
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| Pasting Functions | |
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| Copying | |
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| Duplicate | |
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| Repeat | |
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| Fill Loop | |
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| Resizing Objects | |
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| Normal Sizing | |
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| Sizing Moves Contents | |
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| Sizing Applies Time Stretch | |
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| Shifting Events Inside an Object | |
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| Muting Objects | |
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| Lock | |
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| Play Order Track | |
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| Creating a Play Order Project | |
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| Play Order Part | |
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| Play Order Editor | |
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| Populating a List | |
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| Navigating the Play Order List | |
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| Creating Order | |
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| Managing Lists | |
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| Flattening a List | |
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| Tempo Track | |
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| Tempo Track Editor | |
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| Time Warping | |
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| Warping Inside Editors | |
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| Working in Sync | |
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| About Word Clock, SMPTE, and MIDI Clock | |
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| Timecode | |
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| MIDI Clock | |
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| MIDI Machine Control | |
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| Digital Clock | |
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| Resolving Differences | |
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| Internal and External References | |
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| Setting Up Synchronizations | |
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| Synchronizing Cubase | |
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| Mixing and Mastering | |
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| Mixer | |
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| Mixer Areas | |
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| Common Panel | |
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| Extended Common Panel | |
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| Routing Panel | |
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| Working with Mixer Settings | |
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| Output Bus Channels | |
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| Input Bus Channels | |
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| Can Hide | |
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| FX Channel Tracks | |
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| FX Channels Options | |
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| Audio Track Sends | |
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| FX Channel through VST Connections | |
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| Group Channel Tracks | |
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| Anatomy of a Group Track | |
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| Group Channels | |
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| Using Group Channels | |
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| Groups as Monitor Mix (Cubase Studio 4) | |
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| Writing Automation | |
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| Using Read and Write Buttons | |
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| Writing Channel Track Automation | |
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| Writing Parameter Automation | |
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| About Automation Modes | |
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| Drawing Automation | |
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| Hiding and Removing Automation Subtracks | |
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| Editing Automation | |
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| Using Write Automation | |
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| Using Automation Subtracks | |
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| Automation Techniques | |
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| Automation in the Mixer | |
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| Automation Tracks | |
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| Using SysEx | |
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| Recording SysEx | |
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| Transmitting Bulk Dumps | |
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| Using a Remote Control Mixer | |
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| Surround Mixing | |
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| Multichannel Configurations | |
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| Surround Bus | |
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| Surround Routing Options | |
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| Surround Panner | |
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| Routing Effects in Surround Outputs | |
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| Exporting a Surround Mix | |
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| Final Mix Export | |
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| Audio Exporting Options | |
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| Lossless versus Lossy Formats | |
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| Broadcast Wave Properties | |
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| OMF Export Options | |
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| About Mastering | |
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| Creating an Audio Compact Disc | |
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| About Dithering | |
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| Backing Up Your Work | |
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| Managing | |
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| Project Customization | |
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| Workspaces | |
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| Creating Templates | |
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| Customizing Key Commands | |
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| Macros | |
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| Customizing Toolbars | |
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| Customizing Your Transport Panel | |
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| Customizing Track Controls | |
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| Project Optimization | |
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| Disabling Audio Tracks | |
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| Using VST Plug-Ins | |
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| Optimizing Projects after Processing | |
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| About Freeze | |
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| Freeze an Audio Channel | |
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| Freeze Edits | |
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| Freeze Real-Time Processes | |
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| Freezing VSTi | |
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| Working with Video Files | |
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| Folder Track | |
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| Index | |