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Recording
Audio recording specifics
5. Click an insert slot and select an effect from the effect selector.
As you see, the included effects are sorted into submenus – you will find the
SoftClipper effect on the “Distortion” submenu.
The effect is loaded and activated and its control panel is automatically opened.
6. Adjust the effect parameters to your liking.
For detailed information on the effect parameters, see the separate PDF document
“Plug-in Reference”.
7. When the effect is set up as desired, you can check the level of the input channel
by setting the Meters to post-fader (see
“Setting input levels” on page 116).
Use the input channel fader to adjust the level if needed.
8. Activate recording.
9. When you are finished, you can play back the recorded audio track.
As you can hear, the effect you applied is now a part of the actual audio file.
10.If you do not want to record more with the same plug-in, deactivate it by clicking in
the insert slot and selecting “No Effect”.
Recovery of audio recordings after system failure
Normally, when a computer crashes, all changes made to your current project since
you last saved it will be lost. Usually, there is no quick and easy way to recover your
work.
With Cubase, when your system crashes while you are recording (because of a
power cut or other mishap), you will find that your recording is still available, from the
moment when you started recording to the time when your computer crashed.
When you experience a computer crash during a recording, simply relaunch the
system and check the project record folder (by default this is the Audio subfolder
inside the project folder). It should contain the audio file you were recording at the
time of the crash.
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This feature does not constitute an “overall” guarantee by Steinberg. While the
program itself was improved in such a way that audio recordings can be recovered
after a system failure, it is always possible that a computer crash, power cut, etc.
might have damaged another component of the computer, making it impossible to
save or recover any of the data.
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Please do not try to actively bring about this kind of situation to test this feature.
Although the internal program processes have been improved to cope with such
situations, Steinberg cannot guarantee that other parts of the computer are not
damaged as a consequence.