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Working with projects
Zoom and view options
The Zoom history
Cubase maintains a history of recent zoom stages, allowing you to undo and redo
zoom operations. This way you can zoom in several steps and then easily go back to
the zoom stage at which you started.
There are two ways to invoke Undo Zoom and Redo Zoom:
• Use the items on the Zoom submenu on the Edit menu.
You can also assign key commands for these.
• Double-click with the Zoom tool (magnifying glass) to Undo Zoom.
Press [Alt]/[Option] and double-click to Redo Zoom.
Adjusting how parts and events are shown
The Preferences dialog on the File menu (the Cubase menu, under Mac OS X)
contains several settings for customizing the display in the Project window.
The Event Display page contains common settings for all track types:
The Event Display–Audio page contains settings for audio events:
Option Description
Show Event
Names
Determines whether the names of parts and events are shown in the
Project window.
Hide Truncated
Event Names
When zooming or resizing elements in the Project window, the events
can become very small so that the name is no longer completely
visible (the name gets truncated). When this option is activated, event
names are hidden from the Project window if they do not fit into the
event.
Show Overlaps When events overlap in the Project window, this setting allows you to
specify when the overlapping areas are displayed.
Grid Overlay
Intensity
Increases or decreases the overlay intensity of the displayed grid lines
in the Project window.
Event Handling
Opacity
Increases or decreases the opacity of an overlying event background
when you move it in the Project window.
Smallest Track
Height To Show
Data
Specifies from which track height the track contents are displayed.
Smallest Track
Height To Show
Name
Specifies from which track height the track names are displayed.
Option Description
Interpolate Audio
Images
If the option is deactivated, single sample values are drawn as
“steps”. If the option is activated they are interpolated to form
“curves”.
Show Event
Volume Curves
Always
If this is activated the “volume curves” created with the volume and
fade handles are always shown – if not, the curves are only shown for
selected events.
Show Waveforms Determines whether audio waveforms are shown at all.
Waveform
Brightness
Increases or decreases the brightness of the displayed waveforms.
Waveform Outline
Intensity
Increases or decreases the intensity of the waveform outline.