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Playback and the Transport panel
Options and Settings
Ö In the Preferences dialog (Editing–Audio page) you will find the “Treat Muted Audio
Events like Deleted” option. When you activate this option, any events overlapped by
a muted event will become audible.
About Chase
Chase is a function that makes sure your MIDI instruments sound as they should when
you locate to a new position and start playback. This is accomplished by the program
transmitting a number of MIDI messages to your instruments each time you move to a
new position in the project, making sure all MIDI devices are set up correctly with
regard to program change, controller messages (such as MIDI Volume), etc.
For example, let’s say you have a MIDI track with a program change event inserted at
the beginning. This event makes a synth switch to a piano sound.
At the beginning of the first chorus you have another program change event which
makes the same synth switch to a string sound.
You now play back the song. It begins with the piano sound and then switches to the
string sound. In the middle of the chorus you stop and rewind to some point between
the beginning and the second program change. The synth will now still play the string
sound although in this section it really should be a piano!
The Chase function takes care of that. If program change events are set to be chased,
Cubase will track the music back to the beginning, find the first program change and
transmit it to your synth, setting it to the correct sound.
The same thing can apply to other event types as well. The Chase Events settings in
the Preferences dialog (MIDI page) determine which event types will be chased when
you locate to a new position and start playback.
Ö Event types for which the checkbox is activated here will be chased.
Play until Selection
Start/End
Activates playback two seconds before the start or end of the
current selection and stops at the selection start or end,
respectively.
Play until Next Marker This activates playback from the project cursor and stops at
the next marker.
Play Selection Range This activates playback from the start of the current selection
and stops at the selection end.
Loop Selection This activates playback from the start of the current selection
and keeps starting over again when reaching the selection
end.
Option Description
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The functions listed above (except “Play until Next Marker”) are only available if you
have selected one or more events or made a selection range.