New Features in Cubase 4.
Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Marion Bröer, 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.
Table of Contents
5 Introduction 6 Welcome! 7 Working with the new features 8 8 8 9 9 9 10 10 10 10 11 VST Sound Plug and Play support for ASIO devices Automatically generated VST Connection presets Monitoring improvements (Cubase only) Mac OS X improvements Remote Devices Key Commands for MediaBay options Importing OMF files (Cubase only) Routing the metronome click to a VST Instrument Suspending Autoscroll New option in the Project Synchronization Setup dialog 12 Index 4 Table of Contents
Introduction
Welcome! Welcome to Cubase 4.5! This version adds support for the Advanced Integration Controller CC121 and the Advanced Integration FireWire Interfaces MR816 X/MR816 CSX together with new features for every Cubase user. This document lists and describes the features that have been added to or modified in the program since version 4.1. About the program versions The documentation covers two different operating systems or “platforms”; Windows and Mac OS X.
Working with the new features
VST Sound These hardware-dependent presets can have the following configurations: With version 4.5, Steinberg introduced VST Sound, a new version of the SoundFrame media management system that is directly integrated into VST3. VST Sound allows direct integration into the MediaBay to third party manufacturers of plug-ins and instruments, and encompasses all formats and file types previously supported by SoundFrame such as audio, loops, VSTi presets, video, MIDI files and track presets.
Monitoring improvements (Cubase only) Port selection and activation On the settings page for your audio card (opened via the Devices menu, see above), you can now specify which input and which output port should be active. This allows you e.g. to use the Microphone input instead of the Line input or even to deactivate the audio card input or output completely, if required. Regarding ASIO Direct Monitoring, some improvements have been made for this version of Cubase.
Key Commands for MediaBay options • “Import at Absolute Time” will insert the elements contained in the OMF file starting at the timecode position saved in the file and keeping the relative distances between the elements. Several commands relating to the MediaBay can now be performed using keyboard shortcuts. These are set up in the Key Commands dialog (opened via the File menu).
When this option is enabled, autoscrolling is suspended as soon as you click anywhere in the event display during playback. Proceed as follows: 1. Open a project that contains audio or MIDI parts/ events. 2. Enable both the “Autoscroll” and the “Suspend Autoscroll when Editing” buttons (both buttons turn blue). 3. Start playback. 4. Edit an audio or MIDI part/event of your project (e.g. click and drag it to a different location on its track). The Autoscroll button will turn orange.
Index
A Alt/Option key 6 Autoscroll 10 C Ctrl/Command key 6 K Key commands Conventions 6 M Mac OS X Audio hardware settings 9 Port activation 9 Port selection 9 Retrieving channel names 9 MediaBay Key commands 10 Metronome 10 Modifier keys 6 Monitoring 9 O OMF 10 Option/Alt key 6 P Plug and Play ASIO Devices 8 R Remote Devices Bank Selection 9 Reset User Functions 9 Smart Switch Delay 9 S Synchronization Send MIDI Clock in Stop 11 V VST Connection presets 8 VST Sound About 8 13 Index
