PACKAGE INCLUDES

• Format: CD
• Duration: 8.5 Hours
• Author: Mark Struthers
  
• Platform: Windows PC or Mac

COURSE INTRODUCTION

Steinberg's Cubase 6 is the latest update to the extremely popular professional digital audio workstation music software. In this course, author Mark Struthers will demonstrate how to make initial input and output connections to the program from the soundcard before examining routing in more detail. Additionally, insert and group effects are explored to help show how to enhance recorded audio tracks. Mark will walk you through the many-featured project window before showing you how to create and save your own project. Within the Cubase workflow, important terms such as clips, events, and parts are explained along with the distinction between lanes and tracks. Mark also covers insert and send effects, quantization, time stretch, and the Media Bay. Cubase comes equipped with VST instruments and, in particular, Groove Agent One and Halion Sonic SE are explored before working through the concepts behind a final mix and export to a finished audio track.

COURSE OUTLINE

Starting Up
Introduction
Installation & Registration
System Requirements
New Features
First Look
    
Connecting Up
Making Connections
Effects Channels
Creating Connections
Channel Groups
Monitoring

Project Window
Track List
Property Inspector
Toolbar
Status & Information Lines
Ruler Snap & Autoscroll

Starting a Project
Setting Up a New Project
Opening Existing Projects
Saving & Closing Projects
Backing Up & Archiving
Streamlining Projects

Project Essentials
Setting Preferences
Setting More Preferences
Start Up & Set Up
Zooming & Viewing
Working with Audio
Audio Scrubbing
Files / Clips / Parts / Events
Editing Audio Parts & Events
Sample Editor & Audio Part Editor
Simple Audio Correction
Further Audio Adjustments
Range Editing

Lanes & Tracks
Track Set Up pt. 1
Track Set Up pt. 2
Track Presets
Folder Tracks
Marker Track & Window

First Project
Recording Audio
Transport Panel
Virtual Keyboard
Snapping to Position
Snap Modes
MIDI Recording
Correcting MIDI
Metronome Settings
Overdubbing MIDI Notes
Simple MIDI Adjustments

Project Progression
Mixer Fundamentals
Mixer Set Up
Expanding the Mixer
Hiding Tracks
In Action
Quantization Overview
Quantizing MIDI pt. 1
Quantizing MIDI pt. 2
Audio Quantizing
Sample Editor

Audio Effects
Audio Processing
Insert Effects
Send Effects
Side Chaining
Combining Effects

Moving Around
The Pool
Adjusting Grid View
Exporting & Importing Markers
Arranger Track
Flattening Arranger Tracks

VST Instruments
Overview
Halion Sonic SE pt. 1
Halion Sonic SE pt. 2
Groove Agent
Other VST Instruments

Automation & Processing
Automation
Detect Silence
Time Stretch & Pitch Shift
Spectrum Analyzer & Statistics
VariAudio

Media Bay
Media Bay Overview
Defining Locations
Media Preview
Loop / Sound / Mini Browsers
Filters & Rating

MIDI Matters
Key Editor
In Place Editor
Drum Editor
List Editor
Score Editor

New Features
Multitrack Audio Quantization
Group Editing & Hitpoints
Drum Replacement
Detecting Tempo
Amp Rack
Note Expression
Mixing & Exporting

Conclusion
Course Wrap Up

Credits
About the Author