New Features in Cubase Essential 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 8 9 9 10 10 10 VST Sound Plug and Play support for ASIO devices Automatically generated VST Connection presets Mac OS X improvements Remote Devices Key Commands for MediaBay options Routing the metronome click to a VST Instrument Suspending Autoscroll New option in the Project Synchronization Setup dialog 11 Index 4 Table of Contents
Introduction
Welcome! Welcome to Cubase Essential 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 Essential 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.
5. Activate the “Use CoreAudio Channel Names” option. Remote Devices 6. When you now open the VST Connections window to set up the busses in your system, you will find that the port names in the Device Port column correspond to the names that are used by the CoreAudio driver.
Routing the metronome click to a VST Instrument 3. Start playback. When setting up a metronome MIDI click, you can use a VST Instrument to provide the sound for the click. The Autoscroll button will turn orange. 4. Edit an audio or MIDI part/event of your project (e.g. click and drag it to a different location on its track). Autoscrolling is now suspended, i.e. when the project cursor moves to the right edge of the Project window, the display will not follow to keep the cursor visible. 1.
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 8 MediaBay Key commands 9 Metronome 10 Modifier keys 6 O 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 10 V VST Connection presets 8 VST Sound About 8 12 Index
